Zachery Allan Starkey is a New York City based composer / musician / producer whose contemporary, forward thinking production and songwriting work is compared by critics to pioneers New Order, Giorgio Moroder, Patrick Cowley, and Lou Reed. Starkey collaborated with Bernard Sumner, leader of  New Order, and founding member of Joy Division , on his critically acclaimed longform LP, FEAR CITY, which features Sumner providing synthesizers, guitars, drum programming, and additional production on the anthemic club track "Force", and the darkly powerful "Fear City". In addition to Starkey’s collaborations with Sumner, the ongoing FEAR CITY project also features the new  sleek Disco House hit “No Texting on the Dance Floor”, the symphonic Techno single “XXX”, the deeply personal Post-Disco epic “Solitaire”, the dystopian Techno nightmare of  “No Security”, the Mutant Disco “Bright Future’”, the chrome Industrial “Coked Up Biker Anthem” (remixed by legendary Berlin producer Mark Reeder), and the Synthpop protest song “Fallout”. Starkey uses elements of Techno, Post-Punk, Electro, Disco, and Industrial on FEAR CITY to make a firm, powerful musical statement about the modern world, looking towards an increasingly dystopian future, which has garnered rave press reviews across the globe. 

Formed in 2019, SAVOIA is an indie rock band from New York City that performs at iconic venues across NYC and on the road. Described by Office Magazine as “at the forefront of the rock revival brewing in New York’s downtown scene,” SAVOIA is currently at work on their debut album, with singles “Lose You Completely,” “Hypochondriac,” and “Bringing Me Down” currently available everywhere you can find music.

Bustié is a Dark-Electro project formed by primary artist Angie Padilla aka Pogo Pope. Heavily influenced by 80's Freestyle / Electro, UK Punk, and Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation 1814," Bustié craft a sound of sociopolitical conscious dance music that they coin as "Anarcho Body Music." With lyrical content touching on issues such as LGBTQ+ Rights, Transgender empowerment / livelihood, and the freedoms of BIPOC, Transgender artist, Angie Padilla calls forth action and attention in her songs to these subjects. Their debut album "Birds of Paradise" was released on CLIMAX! in June of 2019. Bustié has headlined stages and festivals such as DTLA PROUD, sCUM, Substance,  Manufactured, Luna Negra, Adverse Fest and played with acts such as Kim Ann Foxman, HIDE, Void Visions, Linea aspera , Actors, Plack Blague, Head Wound City, Geneva Jaccuzi and Xiu Xiu.   Their new single "Design The Desire" ft Hether Fortune of Wax Idols is out now to end the "Birds of Paradise" era and welcome us into something new. "Design the desire, was a track written in celebration of the fluidity of gender, sex, and expression," says writer and track producer, Angie Padilla. Originating from Los Angeles, California, Bustié now resides in Brooklyn, New York. With recent lineup additions by Summer Perlow, formerly of hardcore punk band Soakie. Bustié also includes live collaborations with Heather Galipo (crowjane, egrets on ergot, prissy whip) Rosa Castillo, Gina Kuhn, and Romy Hoffman (ROMY, Agender.)

"Dark and seductive" -Joy of Violent Movement "Cool as ice" -Please Kill Me

Eugene Hütz  is the leader and main songwriter of the acclaimed Gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello. Born in Ukraine and based in New York City, the multi-talented Hutz is a composer, visual artist, actor, activist, and DJ. With a long history of throwing parties in the Lower East Side, Eugene’s DJ set at Unknown Pleasures promises to be an exciting one.

Kristine Barilli is a DJ, Music Supervisor & clothing designer. Born and raised in New York she has been running record stores since she was 18 years old and collecting records ever since. Traveling the world to find rare, esoteric dance records long forgotten is her specialty. Kristine has been featured in Dust & Grooves, as well as holding down parties at some of New York’s best clubs like Public Records, Good Room, Elsewhere and Knockdown Center. She also has a monthly radio show on the lot radio called “Totally Corrupt.”