MORE LOVE
MORE LOVE
Saturday, February 8
MORE LOVE: Riobamba & Deejay Theory
at De La Luz in Holyoke
co-presented with Laudable Productions
Starting in February of 2025, Secret Planet teams up with De La Luz Soundstage and Original Ting Music to bring you a borderless club night in Holyoke.
Deejay Theory, our fearless local purveyor of international dance genres, is our co-pilot. Together we’ll invite DJs and artists from around the world for a broader, more global dance experience.
The newly kitted-out De La Luz, formerly Gateway City Arts, is now under the thoughtful stewardship of Lighthouse and Laudable Productions. They’ve made some fantastic improvements to the room, from acoustic improvements to lighting to a full bar. We’ve taken a test run through the space and think its going to be a killer hang for this kind of thing.
a local vision for global dance
RIOBAMBA is a first-generation, Ecuadorian-Lithuanian sound artist/DJ, scholar, death doula, and cultural activist based in New York City. Her rowdy, deeply researched live sets reflect back nightlife’s power as a site of joy and resistance, amplifying connective tissues between YouTube clips, bodega soundtracks, and noise hyperreality "suped up with a twisted, industrial gnarl" (Complex). The Fader has called her production work “a radically self-expressive piece of futurism that stands against a single, boxed-in definition of what Latinx club music can be."
She’s the founder of APOCALIPSIS, a record label that amplifies artists of the Global South and diaspora, and is intent on restructuring the music industry to center and pay BIPOC creators.
Riobamba has shared the stage with Ivy Queen, Tego Calderón, Nina Sky, Toro y Moi, Princess Nokia, Celso Piña, and DJ Playero, with performance highlights at Panorama Festival, Montreux Jazz Festival, Boiler Room, and more.
GENRES TO EXPECT: Neoperreo, Dembow, Reggaeton, Global Club
A New England native by way of San Francisco, Jake Krauth has been swimming in international musical waters for most of his adult life. While out West, he co-founded and hosted TORMENTA TROPICAL, a decade-long dance party in SF’s Mission district. His in-demand DJ sets diffuse a multiplicity of genres with careful craftsmanship, exquisitely blended with near-zero turbulence and maximal groove.
GENRES TO EXPECT: Dancehall, Tropical Bass, Afrobeats, Amapiano, Afro House