ILLEGAL: Rave Flyers of the 90s Launch Party: DB, DJ Miss Parker, DJ Three, S4M23
About This Event
ILLEGAL: Rave Flyers of the 90s launches at Nowadays with a lineup including DB, DJ Miss Parker, DJ Three and S4M23. DB, the British jungle/drum-and-bass DJ who moved to New York in 1989 and co-founded Breakbeat Science, appears in a rare DJ role amid his later work as a curator and author; S4M23 brings New York–based sets that move between live hardware and club-focused mixing, while DJ Miss Parker contributes her work in electronic dance music.
About ILLEGAL: Rave Flyers of the 90s Launch Party
“ILLEGAL: Rave Flyers of the 90s” lands at Nowadays as a launch party shaped like an oral history, told through DJs rather than text. The night draws a line from New York’s early-’90s underground to the present, with DB—UK-born, NYC-based since 1989 and a Breakbeat Science co-founder—appearing in a rare behind-the-decks role alongside DJ Miss Parker, DJ Three, and S4M23. The flyers being honored were disposable objects that ended up as an accidental archive. The program treats them as evidence of how a scene organized itself before platforms and permissions.
About the Artists
DB
DB Burkeman was a British jungle/drum and bass DJ who moved from London to New York in 1989. He was an early pioneer in rave culture in the U.S., credited as being partly responsible for bringing drum and bass to America.
DJ Miss Parker
DJ Miss Parker is a music artist known for performing as a DJ, typically in electronic dance music genres.
S4M23
S4M23 is a New York City–based electronic artist and DJ whose sets move between live hardware performance and club-focused mixing. They have appeared at Green Room NYC, Bossa Nova Civic Club, and Nowadays, often in lineups alongside artists such as L.