vol 10: august 2, 2025

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Welcome back to Fiber, babes. Sorry for the delay, but we’ve been on vacation. We’re still downstream from Dripping and feeling the effects of its raw and vital energy that is bound by no genre or format. Clearly we’re still moved by everything we saw there, the time we spent with friends, and with the new ideas that were fomented and the community bonds that were reinforced. That’s the type of carnival that will nourish us year by year, allowing us to leave all of the bounds of our everydayness behind and afterwards put the pieces back together in more progressive and energized ways.

The week that followed also brought us the first anniversary of Fiber; it was a big celebration and we saved all the sets for you to relive: Matük’s sunny, funky, gently rising energy, Mz3’s heady and political layered drum work that blew our minds and loosened our limbs, and a driving b2b from residents myu 無 and fuge with some huge cathartic moments and unexpected turns.

We were also blessed the following weekend by witnessing a 6hr set by Nono Gigsta, one of the most principled and inspiring DJs currently out there. It was probably her last ever appearance in this country and she made us cry again and again. We imagine she’s mid-ocean on her sailboat from Cuba to France, and eagerly await her de Tocquevillean report on the state of the States.

Then last week we detoured to Bordeaux to see the Nyege Nyege festival celebrate 10 years at a sprawling post-industrial DIY space called Vivres d’Art. See Diaki and die, as they used to say about Rome. (Actually, Pö rinsed the Dripping Ragga classic “Sit on my Face” by Zido in the moments before M. President Diaki came on and brought things full circle for us.) If it weren’t for the bullshit visa situation in this country, these incredible artists would’ve played Dripping years ago. There’s too much to say about Nyege for this email, but our fair city has much to learn from the futuristic developments the Nyege artists have made out of their local cultures. The closest we can get is when DJ Travella – singeli’s most innovative musician at 23 years old – plays the MoMA PS1 Warm Up later in August. See you there?

There will be another episode of Papaya Papaya Mamão this Friday from 8-10pm. Our homie Fedra is back from their travels and we’re excited to share the booth. The first time Fedra played Fiber, we also had a live multimedia performance by ics, who blew us away with one of our favorite artworks of recent memory. The work tells the story of the miraculous crash landing of United Flight 232 in 1989, with a live industrial ambient score, electrifying the sweetest spots of the klipschorns to massage our bones into the heart of the story, a hopeful and timely meditation on how individuals and communities can come together to face a crisis. Now it’s finally been released as a book and CD project.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 6p

We’ve nearly split the party into two sets of b2b partners with really electric synergies:

We were so impressed by the b2b set that aka-Sol and como se DJ played at the last Dripping club night at Nowadays – dubby, mysterious, sexy, full of a patient tension as if they could do this all night – that we wanted to hear it again, on the intimate scale of Fiber, in this space with our favorite freaks. It’s going to be something of a going away party for como se DJ, one of the organizers of Recess, who is leaving us this fall to study sound design in Montreal.

We invited Laenz and Off-Brand to play together for the first half of the night, two producers whose particularly high-concept abstract bass music has been rinsed at multiple Fibers over the past year, and who have both been on our short list since the beginning. They share a Lot Radio show called Sluice that covers all of the knotty corners of contemporary music that we love and that sound so entomologically precise in this space. It’s gonna be a twisty night so come early to eat and for the tea, and then get weird with us.

Doors, food, and music at 6pm, with food as long as it lasts, and music through midnight, or for as long as we’re all locked in. We’re expecting it’s gonna be a hot one in the studio so the refreshments will be energizing and the music will be freaky. The a/c and fans will be on full blast, but come prepared to sweat. New York in the summer is hot and nasty and we expect that all of y’all who are still here love that sweatiness and tactility at least a little bit. In Portuguese there’s a great word for the leachate that seeps from the piles of roasting trash on our sidewalks and remains when they’ve been collected: chorume. Be sure you wear socks with your sandals.

NYC Migrant Solidarity

Our Fiber family is made up of migrants, and we believe that free movement is a fundamental human right. During this time of fascist brutality, we especially want to uplift our immigrant neighbors, recognizing that the label of immigrant is not a neutral one but is the product of political borders cutting across human bodies. We are proud to have NYC Migrant Solidarity tabling with us, sharing more about the important community work they do and offering opportunities to get involved. NYC Migrant Solidarity is an anti-Authoritarian collective and mutual aid network that empowers migrant communities in this time of crisis. Through cultural gatherings, direct cash transfers, legal, and jail support, they create their own safety measures so our community members may attain a dignified and stable life. There’s an option for a direct donation to their fund via the shopping cart.

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