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Past Dates
02/17 - Together Again w/ Toribio, musclecars @ h0l0 (NYC)
04/06 - Public Records (NYC)
04/20 - Resolute: Masters at Work, Love Injection b2b Toribio
04/21 - Paradisco w/ Occupy The Disco @ Le Bain
05/17 - Sans Soleil w/ Kris Guilty (Montreal)
05/18 - Multi Culti (Montreal) w/ Guthrie
05/19 - TBA (Montreal) 05/24 - Cosmodelica x Love Injection @ Good Room (NYC)
07/04 - Universal Lessons @ Glen Falls House (Round Top, NY)
07/12 - BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!
07/21 - The Nursery (Public Records) with The Carry Nation
09/07 - Public Records (NYC)
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We were invited to curate a full day of programming on Oct 2, featuring people we love and have a deep connection with in life and music.
The lineup included a glimpse into our residency at Public Records followed by 60 minute mixes by Mo Yasin B2B Ivan Monegro, Lovie, Marco Weibel, John Silas, Gene Tellem, Photay, and Butter (The Mixtape Shop). The day also included 30 minute production megamixes by Toribio (aka Conclave), musclecars, and UG/NG.
Listen back to all shows via their website.
In anticipation of the 'BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn' event curated by Dada Strain, which marks the release of Anthology’s landmark publication "Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life" by Richard King, Wax Poetics invited us to put together a special Record Rundown inspired by Arthur Russell.
Delighted to be joining BRIC: Celebrate Brooklyn's program this summer, July 12, 2024 at the Lena Horne Bandshell at Prospect Park. Arthur Russell: Travels Over Feeling is a celebration of the eponymous book by Richard King, published by Anthology. The evening is curated by Dada Strain and invites François K, Worldless Music Orchestra, and us to recontextualize Russell's rich and varied body of work. Free with RSVP.
Announcing the arrival of our next release on Love Injection Records, up for preorder today and releasing worldwide on March 15th.
This one is a production of our own: two unique takes on Jennifer Vanilla’s Jennifer Pastoral featuring Toribio on keys, mixed by Dave Darlington and mastered by François Kevorkian. The Earthly and much-awaited Celestial mixes are paired with the original version on a DJ-friendly 12” single.
“Jennifer Pastoral (Love Injection's Earthly Mix)” is out today along with a preorder for the 12" vinyl release, which features the previously unreleased "Celestial Mix" and the Original Mix.
We joined Peer Pressure for their first panel + tea dance "Legacy in Nightlife" at Littlefield in Brooklyn. The panel was recorded for posterity and archived on Soundcloud. Thankful to have been included alongside fellow panelists Jesse Rifkin, Darryl Branch and moderator/curator That Matt for the invitation. Music followed by Ben Manzone (There Is No Planet Earth).
Grateful to be included in Walk The Night, a series of nightlife-related events curated by Adrian Loving and Ron Trent which took place during Miami Art Basel 2023. Our event featured an intimate conversation between us and Ron Trent, moderated by Loving, at Soundlux about Dope From Hope—the first-ever compilation of Paul W. Klipsch's cult-audio newsletters, published by us earlier that year.
Our remix of Jennifer Vanilla is out today via Sinderlyn, included in Castle In The Sky (Expanded Edition). Our thanks go to the duo and label for the opportunity and to Toribio for his keyboard contributions, as well as the legendary Dave Darlington for mixing it. We set out to strip down and rebuild our version of an ethereal world, Jennifer Pastoral as the track is named, resulting in two versions: Earthly and Celestial. More news on the Celestial Mix soon, but the Earthly Mix releases today. Turn it up and let loose.
A 90 min session we recorded back in August for Faith Fanzine at the Defected HQ in London. It was just days after playing We Out Here Festival so there's some music in common between those sets as well as things we'd go on to play all summer. Thank you to Simon and everyone at Faith for making room for us in the programming, and thanks to all of our friends new and old in London who made us feel so welcome. Certainly a highlight of our year.
Announcing the arrival of A Place In The Sun, out Nov 17th on 7" clear yellow vinyl and digital.
Over the course of a storied 40+ year career, Tokyo-based DJ and producer Yasushi Ide’s work has drawn variously from hip-hop, dub, house, punk, jazz dance, exotica and electronic music, and includes collaborations with Masters At Work, Tom Verlaine, Don Letts, James Chance, DJ Krush, and Bongo Herman, and many others.
“A Place In the Sun (Kaoru Inoue Remix)” is out today along with a preorder for the 45RPM vinyl release, which features Ide's own "Dub Version" and a 45 edit of Kaoru Inoue's remix.
We were invited to join a panel discussion on identifying good sound, hosted by Resident Advisor and moderated by Nyshka Chandran. Fellow speakers include Karl Scholz (Karlala Soundsystem) & Reynaldo Hernandez (Bassbear!!). It's going down at Outer Heaven NYC on Wednesday Oct 4th at 8pm. Will be recorded!
While in London, we stopped by the NTS studio for our first solo Love Injection appearance. Head here for a full mix and tracklist.
A central figure within New York City’s electronic music community, Phil Moffa is renowned as a go-to mixing and mastering engineer, studio owner of Butcha Sound Studios, a revered artist/producer, and an educator and mentor teaching studio production at both SUNY Purchase and Brooklyn College. His latest project is uniquely collaborative and intergenerational: the “Second Foundation” Remixes EP features Phil’s music re-imagined by a quartet of prodigiously talented remixers - AceMo, Photay, Alredna, and Zianni Orange - all of whom are either former or current students of his production masterclass.
Every year DJ Mag rounds up a list of 'Best of' in North America. We've been nominated for two awards this year—Underground Hero and Best Remix [Barbie Bertisch - Is This What You Wanted (Olive T's Late To The Party Remix) (Love Injection Records). Voting is open until May 17th 2023. Thank you to everyone who's supported us over the years.
We're thrilled to have been invited to host a monthly radio show in Japan's terrestrial radio J-WAVE 81.3FM for their global series called "Sounds & Cities." We'll be representing NYC in 20 minute segments airing once to twice a month. Fellow hosts include John Gomez, Roberta Martinelli, Lefto, and more. Only available for listeners in Japan.
We were interviewed for the Spring '23 New York issue of UK's Faith Fanzine. Preorder your copy here.
We were invited to play live b2b for 90 min at The Mixtape Shop's studio, as part of their Record Club series. Hand dubbed tapes are available for sale through their website.
We're inaugurating our "Love Injection In Rotation" playlist, which will be an ongoing chronicle of what we're playing on our weekly show on The Lot Radio, listening to at home, etc. It will be updated monthly.
The playlist will live on Spotify and Apple Music—a sort of discovery tool. A lot of this music came to us through Bandcamp or as a physical release, so remember to invest in your favorite artists whenever possible.
“I’m closing a chapter in my life,” Barbie Bertisch says to me from a park bench in Greenpoint, “I spent the last four years working towards gaining confidence around my ideas and my creative perspective. This feels like a culmination of that process” The “this,” in question is Bertisch’s debut record Prelude, a collection of eleven songs that chronicle 5 years of Bertisch’s life.
The video for Is This What You Wanted is out now on our YouTube channel. Shot by Guarionex Rodriguez Jr, with editing and FX by Rollinos. In Barbie's words: "It is a burst of rage, dueling bass lines and screeching synth work, it’s chaos and resolution. It deals with suppressed anger and how it moves through us like a warning sign, and it was central to the album because of that."
Conclave is a live musical gathering of rotating musicians headed by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Cesar Toribio, in which alchemy is evident in the ebb and flow of its compositions, and seductive juxtapositions of the delicate and powerful are inextricably woven around the living, breathing rhythm.
Conclave’s self-titled debut is out now via Love Injection Records.
“My goal is not to live in a jet every night, DJ festival stages for 30 minutes, and then leave and go to the next gig to just collect money,” Bertisch says. “A, it’s not sustainable. B, it doesn’t contribute anything to this culture. C, you just become a machine.” Barbie Bertisch is featured on The Cut (October, 2020).
Carving her mark on New York mythology, Anita Sarko was a different kind of DJ. “She was alone in a man’s world,” as put by Michael Musto. She stood out because she was truly dancing to the beat of her own drum. We pay tribute to the late pioneering DJ Anita Sarko on our mix for Herb Essentials.
Tim Lawrence invited us to join his inaugural radio show on Worldwide FM. Tim has authored fundamental reading on New York's underground dance music culture such as Love Saves the Day: A History of American Dance Music Culture, 1970-79, Hold On to Your Dreams: Arthur Russell and the Downtown Music Scene, 1973-92, and Life and Death on the New York Dance Floor, 1980-83. Listen back here.
Love Injection joins forces with Holy Ghost! at MoMA PS1's Come Together 2019 to present a collection of rare printed materials from the foundational NYC record label West End Records. In the Dome, we co-curated a panel discussion moderated by Mark Riley, featuring West End recording artists Taana Gardner and Kenton Nix.
‘Love Injection’: A Modern Dance Music Fanzine was an exhibition curated by us and exhibited at the revered NYC gallery, White Columns, in 2017. It featured a large-scale mural, a display of ephemera relating to the Paradise Garage (1977-1987), and a display of spreads from 'Vinylmaniac', the in-house publication by New York's Vinyl Mania (1978-2007).
Love Injection Conversations on dublab invites Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, renowned audiophile, seasoned selector, radio host, founder of Classic Album Sundays and co-founder of Lucky Cloud Sound System. Her resume is endless. Massachusetts born, she cut her teeth at NYU Radio and became close with Love Saves The Day father, David Mancuso. We spoke to her in October 2016 about her long career in music.
Love Injection Conversations on dublab invites Justin Strauss for a two-hour chat. He is one of NYC’s most important DJs and producers. From his teenage years at Milk n Cookies to DJing the city’s best to a massive list of remixing and original productions that speaks volumes, it’s hard to keep conversation to a 2-hour limit.
Love Injection Conversations on dublab invites Tim Lawrence for a two-hour chat as he tours his latest book entitled Life and Death on The New York Dancefloor: 1980-1983 (Duke University Press). Tim is a British author, professor and researcher who found himself documenting underground dance culture in NYC. He is one of the founders of Lucky Cloud Sound System in London.