Nonstop: Ayesha, Ben UFO, DJ DEADNAME, RHR, Simo Cell (live), x3butterfly at Nowadays - Saturday, May 17 2025 | Discotech

This edition of Nonstop starts on a leftfield tip and keeps spiraling outward - connecting raw live electronics, bass mutations, high-tempo experimentation and wide-screen dance floor drama delivered by one of the most agile DJs in the world. DJ DEADNAME, a New York-based artist whose sets are dense, bottom-heavy, and emotionally loaded—mixing sludgy sound design, fractured rhythms, and a visceral sense of cathartic release. Their curation favors raw textures and punk sensibility, setting this session off on a massive, maximal tip. At 1am, Parisian producer-extraordinaire Simo Cell presents a rare live set, tapping into the broken, bass-heavy universe he’s cultivated across releases for Livity Sound, BFDM, and his own label, TEMƎT. Expect strangely swung, tightly coiled drum programming, unexpected melodic twists and tonal detours. Next up is São Paulo’s RHR, who kicks off his Nowadays residency. Delivering a style that’s jagged, high-impact, and deeply rooted in the heat of Brazil’s club underground, his sets are built around an urgent rhythmic language that draws from baile funk but stretches into new forms that collide with techno, electro, and rugged percussive tools. Believe the hype… At 4am, x3butterfly takes the reins. Rooted in raucous, rolling club music and shaped by the energy of New York’s queer underground, their sets are tense, rhythmically restless, and charged with intent. Drawing with just about every pen in the bass bin—from dubstep and jungle to breakbeat and garage—their style fuses percussive force with emotional depth, carving out space that feels raw, fluid, and vividly alive. Now into her third year as a Nowadays resident, Ayesha is already boss-lady across the sunrise hours so the advice here is to pull up to this morning set ready to work. Punchy, powerful and psychedelic subsonics form the foundation of her unique body music that all brains and all bite. From 9am, it’s Ben UFO in full long-form mode once again. A longtime standard-bearer for eclectic, encyclopedic DJing, Ben builds with surgical focus and instinctively understands when to tear the whole thing open. Tracing lines between UKG, techno, electro, dubstep, house and way beyond, his last six hour session on our system went in every direction so best you strap in for this one. /// RSVP is $10 before 11pm and $15 before midnight. An RSVP is good for one person. If you're bringing friends, please have them RSVP here as well. We stop taking RSVPs at 6pm on the day of the party. In order to receive the RSVP discount, you must be at the ticket desk by the cutoff time and not just in line. It's wise to arrive early to make sure you're not standing in line when the time comes. An RSVP does not guarantee entry. Sometimes parties do sell out, so if you want to be sure you'll get in, it's best to grab a ticket in advance. /// Entry is at the discretion of our door staff. Online purchases are limited to four tickets maximum per person. If tickets are sold out here, we always hold a good amount at the door. We will do our best to admit those without tickets but entrance is not guaranteed. Nonstop tickets are divided by entry time. You must arrive during the hours listed on your ticket. For example, if you buy a "10PM–4AM" ticket, you must get here between 10pm and 4am. After you've arrived during your designated time window, you can stay as long as you'd like, so long as you abide by our safer space policy (more on that below). You're also welcome to come and go as you please. Re-entry is based on capacity and is not guaranteed. Violence, non-consensual touching, racist, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, ageist or other discriminatory language, and leering are not allowed within our walls or in our back yard. If someone says or does something to make you feel uncomfortable while you’re here, let us know.