The DJ booth as a broadcast studio is a format that only really works when the person in it can genuinely play, because there is nowhere to hide with a camera on your hands for two hours.
Sam Divine runs Defected's touring arm and has spent years as one of the most visible faces of a label that essentially defines commercial house music in Britain. She plays vocal-forward, disco-leaning house — the warm end, the end that works on people who do not consider themselves dance music listeners. The Mixlab format puts the set in the round with the crowd on all sides, which changes the dynamic completely: there is no back of the room and no front, and the people who came to watch her work are standing where the barrier usually is.
Nine at night on Friday the sixth of November, in the warehouse on East 16th.
The DJ booth as a broadcast studio is a format that only really works when the person in it can genuinely play, because there is nowhere to hide with a camera on your hands for two hours.
Sam Divine runs Defected's touring arm and has spent years as one of the most visible faces of a label that essentially defines commercial house music in Britain. She plays vocal-forward, disco-leaning house — the warm end, the end that works on people who do not consider themselves dance music listeners. The Mixlab format puts the set in the round with the crowd on all sides, which changes the dynamic completely: there is no back of the room and no front, and the people who came to watch her work are standing where the barrier usually is.
Nine at night on Friday the sixth of November, in the warehouse on East 16th.
The DJ booth as a broadcast studio is a format that only really works when the person in it can genuinely play, because there is nowhere to hide with a camera on your hands for two hours.
Sam Divine runs Defected's touring arm and has spent years as one of the most visible faces of a label that essentially defines commercial house music in Britain. She plays vocal-forward, disco-leaning house — the warm end, the end that works on people who do not consider themselves dance music listeners. The Mixlab format puts the set in the round with the crowd on all sides, which changes the dynamic completely: there is no back of the room and no front, and the people who came to watch her work are standing where the barrier usually is.
Nine at night on Friday the sixth of November, in the warehouse on East 16th.