vol 9: june 21, 2025

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We’re getting ready to head to Dripping for the weekend, and when we’re back we’ll get the preparations going for feeding y’all BIG TIME at the Fiber One Year Carnaval. The food will be special, the music will be special, the dance will be exuberant, and we wanna see your beautiful faces.

You know the drill: come early, eat dinner, yap with friends old and new, tap into the NY Cultural Solidarity Project – get involved supporting mutual aid efforts for artists and other cultural workers who have suffered materially for speaking out against genocide, and talk about how we can agitate from the belly of the beast – and of course, DANCE.

For the first time, we have recordings of an entire night of Fiber, Vol. 8, PTP edition, with ambient sets by fuge and FAUZIA, and a loud-ass set from myu 無, live sets from subt.le, Swaya, and KING VISION ULTRA with poetry from Yaz Lancaster and Kehinde Alonge, and words of purpose from Ali from the NYCSP.

fuge has a new monthly show on East Village Radio, with Fedra and Matük, every 4th Friday of the month from 8-10pm. It’s called Papaya Papaya Mamão, and features the deepest and newest cuts in Latin American music: leaning on electronica, going from field recordings, through ambient, experimental, and club. The first one is June 27.

Below we discuss some more lore integral to our party, highlighting Ben Morea, who’s been trying to build an alternative to this death machine for 60 years. He’s been around town lately, most recently at Woodbine, talking to our generation about his life’s total revolution. Ben will be having an open house sale of art, antiques, and collectables Fiber weekend, June 21 and 22, from 11a-5p, at his loft at 354 W. 37th Street, buzzer #2. We’ll have Ben’s memoir available for purchase, as well as free copies of the latest zine from the Rave Cafe, which focuses on the concept of degrowth as it relates to nightlife, highlights local mutual aid efforts, and features a contribution from myu 無.

We are trying to move the culture away from the format of just posting DJ bio/statements, but we don’t exactly know the way out yet, so we do have them below. We would love to host other writing or media here, tangential to the party itself, so if you have some ideas and wanna get involved, hit us back here. We also are planning a simple Fiber archive website, and might need help with that. If you wanna be involved, hit that REPLY button.

SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 6p, 1 year Carnaval

We’re proud to have the NY Cultural Solidarity Project back tabling with us. We hope you saw the B.A.S.S. (Big Apple Solidarity Strike) party they hosted at Earthly Delights, where they raised over $5,000 for a strike fund for our city’s DJs who pulled out of Boiler Room, and had some left to send to comrades in Gaza. Having an organization like this working in our scene is of the utmost importance right now with venture capital entangling itself in rave culture and turning rave profits into genocidal investments.

The NYCSP aim to make cultural movements for liberation sustainable through collaborative event curation, community-oriented structures, popular education, and direct aid via their Cultural Solidarity Fund. They especially work to uplift cultural workers facing repression for their demonstrable support of Palestine. They’ll be bringing art and other merch for sale, and share more about their work, if you wanna get involved. If you want to contribute, there is an add-on in the cart, which goes directly towards their Cultural Solidarity Fund.

Ali and the NYCSP participated in a fundraiser for foodfight and a panel last week that Lychee organized for their birthday (check out the ticket pricing!), followed by a club night featuring some of their favorite artists – including our very own myu 無, in b2b with Luwan, who played our January party with Løt.te. The panel was about our relationships with institutions, how we’re manipulated by them, as well as how we can manipulate them in turn. The beautiful thing about this thoughtful conversation was how it set the intention of the night and connected people–the conversations that flowed in the bar and the backyard afterwards were inspiring and purposeful.

During the panel at Nowadays, Ali read out the listing for Nowadays on the NYC index (bit.ly/nycindex, easy to remember), and stressed “follow the money,” and it’s real. If you wanna know about who’s ultimately benefiting off of DJs, ravers, and the people that make the parties happen, start asking questions about who’s funding all of this, where the bag goes, who shines and takes the clout. Ask this about all of the institutions around you canceling artists behind a shiny facade while civic society crumbles. Who supports the arts? Who benefits from it? Where does the bag circulate? We’d be happy to talk to you about our financials at any point, but the short answer is that we don’t take home any money and at best we break even. We donate the huge spread of food that we buy, cook, and schlep to the studio for the party because it’s our offering. We have had fundraisers where everyone has donated their labor, but we want the DJs to get paid for their work and for L&SD to keep its doors open. In the past any proceeds leftover after paying out has gone to orgs working on the ground in Gaza (Kinder USA and eSIMS for Gaza).

ARTISTS

Our homie Matük will bless us with his immaculate vibes to start the party. He has played some of our favorite live sets at the studio – Pájaro Transatlántico with Pablo Torres Gomez, as a part of ABELA, and playing Afro-Colombian bullerengue filtered through synthesizers as Contrafuego (listen to the bootleg!) – and he closed out one of our parties last year with his signature repertoire of rhythmically-intricate proggy jams that pull as much from cumbia as from glitchy sample-based electronica or 70s Moog krautrock.

Mz3 will take over for the solstice sunset, fresh off his Dripping debut at the Ragga showcase in the barn, which will, by June 21, have become the stuff of legend. He is a true digger after our own hearts, with a USB filled with bassy polyrhythmic tracks from the funkiest capitals of global sound system culture, and the chops to put it all together in a way that it really means something.

Residents myu 無 and fuge (myuge? f-yu?), the yin and yang of Fiber’s musical universe, will play back to back from the remainder of the night, bringing out all their high energy intercontinental breaks for the occasion, to rock the party until you drop.

LORE: THE FAMILY, RECIPES, SOUNDS FROM THE FRINGES IN SÃO PAULO AND NYC
“STREET GANG WITH ANALYSIS”

We met Ben Morea in like 2010, through the intermedia artist Aldo Tambellini. Ben was a kid when he met Aldo, fresh out of the reformatory, and in recovery from heroin addiction. Aldo’s Tuscan town had been liberated by the Buffalo Soldiers and he came to the US as something of an outsider. He had a studio on the (then) Lower East Side, somewhere near 2nd Ave and 1st St. He painted abstract galaxies on used photographic slides that he found, and projected them on the walls of abandoned buildings. If you ever wanna talk about this, come find us, there’s a lot to say…well, Ben started doing intermedia events with Aldo, as a part of Group Center. They combined art and technology, put exhibitions in the street, and protested outside of the Whitney and MoMA. They hated the Pop Artists and the about face way that art was all of a sudden being marketed to millionaires in forms that celebrated American corporatism over the existential and political resilience of the human spirit. After a couple of years with Group Center, Ben started his own group that focused less on art production and more on street agitation. It was called Black Mask, and published a zine of the same name. Black Mask quickly evolved, becoming Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker (an unprintable media enemy), Armed Love, and the Family. They ran crash pads on the LES, armed patrols against police, and did food and acid distribution, among countless other community works both functional and fantastical. They dumped trash from their streets in the fountain of Lincoln Center during the ‘68 garbage strike, helped occupy Columbia, cut the fence open at Woodstock, closed MoMA down for a day, executed a fake assassination of Kenneth Koch at a Poetry Project reading at St. Mark’s on the Bowery (to protest the continued creation of art in the face of the mediatized slaughter of the Vietnam War), and occupied Bill Graham’s Fillmore East for a night a week, interrupting the flow of counterculture cash to Graham’s pockets with nights of improvised, community-run anarchy. After breaking into the Pentagon (visible in the Chris Marker film, The Sixth Side of the Pentagon), and realizing that he was himself marked for official assassination, he and his partner lived on horseback in the wilderness of the southern Rockies for 5 years, before going down and homesteading, adopting dozens of children over the years, and integrating themselves into indigenous communities, where Ben became a respected ceremonial figure. That’s Ben’s story, in brief, but you can read a longer version of it, published by Detritus Books. At 84, Ben has a spiritually integrated holistic anarchy that we particularly admire, and he’s one of the most principled people we’ve ever met, as well as a sweet and generous soul who will live on in myth and as a guide to how to live a life in rebellion long after his body, which he never hesitated to lay on the line, finally returns to this earth.

His combination of performance, psychedelia, mutual aid, and rebellion is uniquely inspiring to us in our contemporary moment. One of his lines of thought says that the revolution needs more than just militants (which it needs, badly), but it also needs cooks and nurses, childcare workers, welders and plumbers, messengers, street cleaners, teachers, people who can make spreadsheets, and yes artists, and people who can build a culture together that can withstand sacrifice. Ben says that revolution is not an event, it is a way of life and it touches everything. Again, Ben will be having an open house sale of art, antiques, and collectables Fiber weekend, June 21 and 22, from 11a-5p, at his loft at 354 W. 37th Street, buzzer #2, if you wanna help him directly, and talk to him about what he did and what is to be done.

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