YEAR SIX
SeptEMBER 12-15, 2019

Sustain-Release returns to Camp Kennybrook for YEAR SIX, Sept 12-15 2019, with another love letter to the rave wildcards. 

Like last year, Thursday begins in the wooded canopy of The Grove with a showcase of moody vibe setters from the Kansas City mix/compilation series C MINUS: DJ sets from founder MDO, PIL, and live sets from the original “deep reggaeton” artist DJ PYTHON and West Mineral’s PONTIAC STREATOR & ULLA STRAUS. Over at the Bossa stage, JANE FITZ warms up the waters then dives in, playing open to close. The UK-based lifer explores liquid, psychedelic slipstreams and dubby minimalism with a too-rude impunity. 

Main Stage, now re-imagined with a different layout, kicks off Friday with new generation hardcore iterations. LSDXOXO delivers on the promise of his moniker with a full frontal blast of techno collisions, fevered vocals and defiant erotic imaginings. Discwoman’s AKUA embodies the new School of Hard Trax - fast, physical & freaky. Lyon’s J-ZBEL, who run the label Brothers From Different Mothers, play their debut American live set - scorching, trance’y Detroit strings, breakbeats and attitude. Panorama Bar star ROI PEREZ joins high priestess of acid DR RUBINSTEIN for a closing B2B : they meet in the middle with groovy, adrenaline-honed euphoria. RAW UNKUT sets it off with some supple & smoky D’n’B straight out of Kiev.

Up the hill at Bossa, Salon Des Amateurs resident VLADIMIR IVKOVIC brings the tempos down for a sweat-drenched & screwed cosmic lift off. Hyperdub artist & ex-New Yorker LAUREL HALO’s recent DJ sets bring the dank, brainy curiosity of her productions into the dance realm, with unexpected juxtapositions and deft artistic turns. Timedance / Hessle Audio emissary BRUCE closes the night, swerving through Bristolian bass music and steppy mutations with a melting, surreal wildness. Things turn playful, psychedelic and paranoid with HALAL & RELAXER’s collaborative live set.  Ridgewood MVP HANK JACKSON doses the start with far-reaching rhythmic extrapolations. 

At the Grove, ambient sets provide a solace throughout the weekend. On Friday, ANTENES performs a hybrid set: spare, spacey and evocative, her music is created from a laboratory of self-made synthesizers using vintage telephone equipment. De School’s LUC MAST basks in languid, aqueous vibes, and Japanese expat DJ HEALTHY welcomes the rising sun on Saturday morning. On Saturday night, Japanese artist 5IVE joins; his fascinating first record kicked off Powder’s Thinner Groove label earlier this year. NY-based label & party series QUIET TIME host a showcase with DJ sets from the label bosses, Tokyo-based tripper JR CHAPARRO, and a live set of woozy remembrances by NADIA KHAN.

Saturday’s pool party is headed by Dutch maverick DJ MARCELLE. Rooted in the ethos of the UK’s 80s post punk scene, Marcelle’s twisting 3-deck vinyl sets bring the genre-spanning ruckus like none other. Brooklyn rising stars ACEMO & MOMA READY ride the lightning, B2B’ing their way through rugged house, techno & Jersey Club heaters. Working Women’s DJ VOICES starts it up with two hours of vibrant elasticity.

Saturday night Main Stage is helmed by Midwest DIY rave legend and Berghain crusher DVS1. Visceral and hypnotic, he sets the standard for unstoppable mixing technique, with lean and rippling techno boiling over like a witches cauldron. Finnish producer ALEKSI PERÄLÄ plays lush live compositions using the obscure, mesmeric Colundi tuning sequence, moving between eerily soothing and white knuckle. CASHU joins from Brazil - she’s known for slithering sets at Mamba Negra, the legendary queer warehouse rave she runs in São Paulo. Powerfully cerebral producer WATA IGARASHI returns for a live set, shepherding us through hypnotic wormholes. And midway through the night, it gets switched up with by Drum’n’Bass legend & Exit Records founder DBRIDGE, who rolls UK’s native grooves into a chrome-plated & seductive attack. NY’s HIRO KONE opens with a poetic industrial-tinged modular live set.

At Bossa, none other than POWDER closes the weekend with an 8+ hour joyride through the sublime & strange. Vancouver deep dreamer D. TIFFANY pumps the gas though misty terrain, fusing pumping electro, euphoric house and trance bombs. Timedance’s BATU has chops on lock - mixing up techno and dancehall with the bass submersions of Bristol. BETA LIBRAE returns from her first EU tour with a tuff & tender live set of neon-dappled syncopations. St. Petersburg-born artist PERILA has been sending out a series of incredible, intensely chillradio sessions for years, and just released her first LP - treating groove like a deep exhale. 

Both stages have hand-built lighting by NITEMIND and Funktion-One sound systems by PURPLESOUND. The Grove lighting & environmental design by KIP DAVIS. The Grove stage cover built by SAFWAT RIAD. Food is provided by the same teams - LIL MO’S in the canteen, vegan-focused REMEDI in the cafe, and KINI GRILL BBQ on Friday & Saturday afternoons. See you in the trees. 

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THURSDAY

BOSSA

9PM-3AM Jane Fitz

THE GROVE

6PM Pil

9:30PM Pontiac Streator & Ulla Straus Live

11PM DJ Python Live

12:30-3AM mdo

FRIDAY

3PM Basketball Tournament with DJ Python B2B Bruce

THE GROVE

9PM Luc Mast

1AM Antenes Live

4AM DJ Healthy

SATURDAY

POOL PARTY

2PM DJ Voices

4PM AceMo & MoMA Ready

6PM-8PM DJ Marcelle

Credits

Always… the crowd. You all are the absolute best.
Camp Kennybrook: Howard, Bunky & staff
Site Managers: Mike Petillo, Nikki Brown, Ramón Jaramillo.
Production: Andrew May, Enrique Alba, Heidi Lorenz Wettach, Jansen Scott, Jason Halal, Jonathan Perrelly, Laura Mackenbach, Lazar Bozic, Ronan Kelly, Sandy Heyaime, Spurge Carter, Stephen Kimbel-Olson
Stage Managers: Enrique Alba, Fede Gomez, Jade Guterman, Katie Lau
Office Manager: Declan Kelleher
Lighting by Nitemind: Michael Potvin, Lauren Klenow, Lucas Bond, Andy Snee, Adam Aslan, Aaron Tripp, Brendan Bercik, Chris Olson, Chris Roberts, Dan Snazelle, Ève-Laurence Hébert, Heather Strange, Jake Sweeny-Samuelson, Jason White, Jon Matson, Jordan Stern, Julie Ólafsdóttir, Juna Skenderi, Kevin Thanhauser, Kai Sundermann, Masha Koblyakova, Matthew Weisberg, Matty Antonello, Natalia Quiroz, Raj Medhekar, Robin Crookall, Sam Clarke, Steve Grise, Taryn Miller, Thomas Dennis, Vickie Pan, Zach Brennan
Purple Sound: Peter Munch, Alex Graham, Kevin Perdomo, Bud Galarita, Harley Ware, Paul Landowski
The Grove Lighting by Kip Davis + crew: Jeffrey Strausser, Michael Reyes, January Gorsline, Joss Boss, Perri Mackenzie, Sophia Choi
The Grove stage tent: Safwat Riad, Carol Lee, Cheyenne Adrian, Karen Nicole
Artist Hospitality: Lesly Remy Jr., Stephanie Kimberly, Sophia Sempepos
Bar: Director John Barclay, Managers Edward Thompson & Diego Diaz, Bartenders Luz Angelica Fernandez, Vanessa Mcginley, Beto Cravioto, Stephen Barnes, Erica Kenia, Jon Nicholson, Nicki Allen Forbes
Remedi Food: Mantra Marie, Cotton Roach, Getty René, Jan Woo, Lalit Kilaya, Lawn Mall, Mallie Sanford, Marley Marl, Ramsi Tora, Rebecca Richards, Paris Roman, Pauli Cakes, Samuel Morris, Sasha Desree, Slater Stanley, Trevor Swain, Yarrow medicine: Frankie Baker
Lil Mama’s: Linda Thach, Carlos Cabeza, Danny Waits, Elizzette Mercado, Porter Harrington, Mitch McCann, Nicoll Celis
Bikini Grill: Angelina Vezzetti, Chandler Moses, Matt Gunn
Security: A.D.M. Security Inc. directed by John Barclay, including MVPs Karen Herbert + Jay Narvaez
Environmental lighting: Signe Pierce, Rubby Valentine
Check-in: Jason Halal, Andrew May, Daniel Clark, Emma Olson, Enyo Amexo, Frankie Hutchinson, Katyann Gonzalez, Lisa Gobmeier, Maŕa Peralta, Molly Smith, Reed Dunlea, Sean Schermerhorn, Seze Devres, Tyler Jones
Bus Check-in: Kayla Waldorf, Emma Williamson, Enyo Amexo, Rosa Luna, Salem Hilal
Artist Travel Coordinator: Phil Krogt
Artist Drivers: Anita Para, Chloe Thompson, Ezra Glenn, Matt Schnipper, Niki Marvin, Spurge Carter
Merch: Boot Boyz Biz + X-tra.
Merch Sales: Miko J, Mitchell Stepien
Ticketing development: Olga Romanova
Customer service: John Rohrer
Partners: Bossa Nova Civic Club, Mutual Dreaming
Bridge guards: Bernhard Eiling, Maraliz Campos, Mikaylah Bowman, Samantha Carmel
Basketball Tournament: organizers Brendan Arnott + Gregory Wawa, all players, and the champions: Chris Roberts, Taryn Miller, Thomas Dennis, Matthew Weisberg
Cabin hosts: Book Club, D. Tiff, De School, Discwoman, Kiss & Tell, NAP, Odd Fantastic, Olga’s Nest, Pure Immanence, Sandy’s Cuddle Puddle, Whatever Forever, Wormhole, X-Tra
Medics: Maddy Brown, Trevor Coleman
Special thanks: Firestarter Ryan Scannura, Nowadays & Gareth Solan, Mark Grossman, Max Pask, Bailey Hoffman, Brian Pineyro
Photographers: Juan Camilo, Luis Nieto Dickens, Raul Coto-Batres, Ryan Lowry, Sean Schermerhorn
Architects: Peter Cirillo & Tim Ryan
Sullivan County Planning Board & Buildings Dept: Dick McGoey, James Carnell & co.
Lawyer: Luque PLLC
Directors: Aurora Halal + Daniel Martin-McCormick
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