upcoming events
upcoming events
Party Illegal Presents: Ash Lauryn
Detroit-born and Atlanta-based, Ash Lauryn is pushing the Black American roots of house and techno forward. Her acclaimed platform, Underground And Black, which began as a blog and later evolved into a beloved NTS Radio show and event series, has become a cornerstone of honest storytelling and celebration within the electronic dance community. Ash Lauryn’s releases, including collaborations with Stefan Ringer, Jimpster, and the timeless anthem “Underground & Black” with Kai Alce blend Detroit house roots with soulful spoken word. Not to mention her family-centered day party Mother May I, Ash Lauryn is truly preserving the roots of dance music into the future.
With:
LexOnLoud
thefacesblur
Lily Ray
Thursday, November 5
BOOM Club
9PM – 2AM
new orthodox w/ blooming, tacoma park
Expanding blossoms of fuzz, billowing sheets of reverb, and unspooling bolts of pastoral sound and texture, courtesy of three of the finest around.
boom 101
BOOM 101 Returns after an October of bangers. Come take a tour of our instrument library, learn the basics of analog synthesis, cook up some beats on the drum machine, and open your mind to some deliciously weird musical concepts.
FREE for members, $10 with a BOOM Club Day Pass
going live with Skaði
Thinking about playing live music for the first time? Got a venue picked out or an open mic planned? It can be hard to piece together what to bring, who to talk to, and how to prepare. A large portion of playing live is knowing your tools and how best to improvise with them if things don't go according to plan. Join Jae Rin (artist name Skaði) for a workshop on making sure your first live performance is fun, how to embrace failure, and how to reduce pressure in high-pressure scenarios.
all onyx world
This festival serves as a beacon of hope for the people of Durham as well as doubles as a children's brain cancer research benefit show.
"When Onyx got sick
We needed alot of help
It felt like the world was crumbling and all we had was other peoples love and support holding it together
I want to return some of that love to the city
I want the city to rejoice in his name
Onyx was about love
He passed with a full heart and a everything he needed
Every family should have the peace of mind we were delivered
This isn’t for Onyx
This is for you … the people who made his life amazing"
-Jooselord, Onyx's Father
![armature feat. ultrabillions w/ Lex Nell, dinar [f2f] eeuan, mofle, me I'm counting, dean lie [f2f] lex nell](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6878fd7349f4aa43f9a0ad51/1791556682882-IBOA9TOGY7P2ZOFHE5FW/armature.jpg)
armature feat. ultrabillions w/ Lex Nell, dinar [f2f] eeuan, mofle, me I'm counting, dean lie [f2f] lex nell
ARMATURE is a collaborative audiovisual experience by Installation, Lex Nell, and Signal. Together, they bring a night of techno, live hardware, hybrid performances, and immersive visuals to Boom Club in Durham, North Carolina. DJs will perform face-to-face in a hardware, digital, and vinyl format. Visual Canopy together with Installation and Signal transforms the space through light, texture, projection, and fog. It'll be a night of deep sounds, organic textures, and an atmospheric environment.
Featuring an ambient set by Møfle, live hardware sets from Me I’m Counting and Ultrabillions w/Lex Nell, and DJ sets by DJNAR, Eeuan, Lex Nell, and Dean Liu.
Tickets available HERE
secret boyfriend LP release show w/ she, mafia vs werewolf, housefire, dj gallimaufry, dj glyn maier
Hot Releases label chief (and Average/Savage Weekend mastermind) Secret Boyfriend celebrates the release of their new LP Star. Some noisy/trippy friends join the bill in the form of SHV, Mafia vs. Werewolf, and Housefire, plus sets by DJ Gallimaufry and DJ Glyn Maier.
GOOD MOON/NO VISA AFTERSHOW NIGHT 3
GOOD MOON/NO VISA AFTERSHOW NIGHT 3
10:00PM - BABY RAIN-A
11:30PM - ARMANA KHAN
1:00AM - MICKY SLICKS
GOOD MOON/NO VISA AFTERSHOW NIGHT 2
GOOD MOON/NO VISA AFTERSHOW NIGHT 2
10:30PM - ALEC LOMAMI
11:30PM - GRRL x MADE OF OAK
1:00AM - MAS CULINA
good moon/no visa aftershow 1
GOOD MOON/NO VISA AFTERSHOW NIGHT 1
10:30PM - DJ BOSSLADY
11:20PM - JACQUES GREENE
12:20AM - SUMMY
delver
Delver is a Raleigh collective of brilliant weirdos who travel with their own Quadrophonic sound system, wild-ass lighting, and a veritable medieval fortress of Modular synthesizers. What is all this gear used for? It’s used to BLOWING MINDS.
Delver is bringing their improvisational sonic roadshow to BOOM Club on Sunday October 4th and let me tell you something people it is FREE and it is AWESOME.
CARRIER & ANDY STOTT
CARRIER
Carrier is the latest project from veteran British producer Guy Brewer, whose restless career has already taken him from the influential drum & bass duo Commix to the austere, industrial techno of Shifted and his Avian label. Carrier folds those histories into something harder to classify: skeletal percussion, cavernous dub space, electro-acoustic texture, and the ghost architecture of jungle and drum & bass.
ANDY STOTT
Manchester producer Andy Stott has spent more than two decades turning techno inside out. A longtime fixture of the Modern Love label, Stott emerged from dub techno before slowing, distorting, and overloading the form into the famously battered sound of Passed Me By and We Stay Together, followed by the landmark Luxury Problems. His music can be brutally physical and eerily beautiful at once: submerged vocals, enormous low end, corroded percussion, and flashes of hardcore, post-punk, ambient music, and jungle drifting through the wreckage.
w/ support by
MARTEKA FAIR
Winston-Salem producer Marteka Fair builds hypnotic dub-techno from intricate polyrhythms, repetition, noise, and sustained rhythmic pressure.
DRALETIKA
Durham’s Draletika collides frantic jungle breaks with blown-out, bit-crushed textures—raw, damaged dance music.
PROBLEMS W/ Heavy For The Vintage
Frequently shirtless agitator PROBLEMS brings sweaty synthpunk and devastating moves to BOOM Club for a midweek throwdown. Warm up with with the cavernous grooves of Hillsborough's Heavy for the Vintage
This is an 18+ show.
Tickets are live at: https://link.dice.fm/m282ec221e0a?dice_id=m282ec221e0a
MICROMACHINES
Frequently shirtless agitator PROBLEMS brings sweaty synthpunk and devastating moves to BOOM Club for a midweek throwdown. Warm up with with the cavernous grooves of Hillsborough's Heavy for the Vintage
This is an 18+ show.
Tickets are live at: https://link.dice.fm/m282ec221e0a?dice_id=m282ec221e0a
Matthew Cha "Technojazz" Release
Modular virtuoso (and great friend of BOOM) Matthew Cha presents Technojazz, a live, semi-improvised suite composed for Buchla 200 and alto saxophone, with the recording captured in one take with no overdubbing.
From the man himself: “This recording is a recognition of the fraternal connection between these two instruments, as well as their advanced capacities for high-resolution, phenomenological expression. I struggled to capture the genuine musical aliveness of the interactions between Buchla and saxophone with entirely through-composed pieces, and instead decided the best outcome was to capture these performed, reactive musical gestures in the moment of their natural curiosity, and present this as the album.”
Seeing Matthew play is like watching a prestigious scientist play with exploding powders and color-changing smoke: lively and fun, yet precise and controlled.
Kindred spirit and frequent live collaborator Ultrabillions plays in support.
Manifest board release party
We are hyped to officially announce the release of a new skateboard deck made in collaboration between @manifestskateshop and @psychichotline and a big party to celebrate it!
Come to BOOM Club on August 15th for the board release party and to commemorate Manifest Skate Shop’s 9 year anniversary! We’ll have DJ’s @tuttle_recall and @randletrandle performing, a mini ramp set up to skate during the party, and will also be premiering “KEEP ON”- a new short skate video from Manifest.
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The deck designed by @nathanielrussell and pressed by @generatorskateboardistribution is absolutely beautiful and will be available at the event along with other exclusive merch so come out for an epic night of skateboarding and music and we’ll see you there!
SEX ON DECKS PRESENTS Bass Kink
Bass Kink is a celebration of alternative club culture, queer expression, and the freedom to lose yourself on the dance floor. Come ready to dance and surrender to the sound.
This edition features Más Kalina, the dynamic and alluring duo from @kali_fuchis & @xmarkstheirspot, alongside Sex on Decks.
Tickets available here and at door
BASICS OF MIDI WORKSHOP
JUST WHAT THE HELL IS MIDI? Well, it’s short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface; at least we know that. MIDI is the industry standard for how electronic instruments talk to computers and one another. It’s arcane, powerful, and often annoying, but a basic understanding of this ubiquitous technology can make a room full of synthesizers feel like your own personal robot band.
In this beginner-friendly workshop, we'll cover the fundamentals of MIDI: where it came from, why it's still the glue holding so much electronic music together, and how you can use it without earning a degree in menu-diving. We'll sync drum machines and synthesizers to a common tempo, control software instruments with hardware controllers, sequence multiple instruments from a single brain, and build a simple, reliable live setup that you can actually take out into the world.
DJ PYTHON AND FOODMAN
Two of electronic music’s most distinctive voices share a bill at BOOM Club. From hyper-detailed rhythmic experiments to humid, dub-soaked club music, Foodman and DJ Python each push dance music into strange and beautiful territory while remaining deeply connected to its roots.
Foodman is the project of Japanese producer and DJ Takahide Higuchi, whose playful, genre-defying music combines footwork, J-pop, experimental electronics, and intricate percussion. His releases for labels like Planet Mu have earned him a reputation as one of the most inventive producers working today.
DJ Python is the New York–based producer Brian Piñeyro, known for his signature blend of deep reggaeton rhythms, ambient textures, and dub-infused house music. His critically acclaimed releases have helped define a new lane in contemporary electronic music- warm, hypnotic, and emotionally rich.
This is an 18+ event
TICKETS: https://link.dice.fm/A75dda57e043?dice_id=A75dda57e043
BOOM CLUB 101
Join us for this month's tour of the Synth Clubhouse. We'll explore our instrument library, go over the basics of synthesis, play with drum machines, make weird cosmic noises, and generally have a real good time.
FREE for members, or included with a $10 BOOM Club Day Pass.
THIS SUNDAY AND EVERY FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH at 1 p.m.
600 Foster St
Suite B
Durham NC 27701
Micromachines
Each month we invite you guys to bring a short (under 15-minute) set built around one small piece of hardware. Think sampler, groovebox, synth, or other compact machine.
Pedals and additional gear are welcome as long as everything setup runs to a single stereo output.
Spots are limited, so get there early to sign up. Changeovers are quick, so be ready to plug in and start immediately.
Bring us your bleeps, your bloops, your under-15-minute masterpieces.
Deakin, Tacoma Park
Deakin is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founding member of Animal Collective whose solo work blends psychedelic folk, warped electronics, and deeply emotional songwriting. His live performances move between intimate acoustic moments and expansive, immersive soundscapes — playful and strange in the best way.
Carrboro pastoral psych/drone explorers Tacoma Park open the show.
Doors: 7:00pm
Show: 8:00pm
$20 - Buy Tickets Here
BOOM CLUB 101
Join us for a tour of the BOOM Club Synth Clubhouse. We’ll explore our instrument library, go over the basics of synthesis, play with drum machines, make weird cosmic noises, and generally have a real good time.
FREE for members, or included with a $10 BOOM Club Day Pass
King Britt presents Blacktronika night two
Night two of Blacktronika pushes deeper into the future of Black electronic music with King Britt, Trovarsi, Nelson Bandela, and Linafornia.
$36.53, includes all fees
Tickets HERE.
BOOMslang Volume 1 All Access Passes HERE
Inside the Signal Chain with Trovarsi: Building and Performing A Live Hybrid Modular Techno Setup
Step inside the signal chain of Trovarsi’s live hybrid techno performance and see how modular gear, hardware, and software come together in a cohesive setup. In this one-hour workshop, she breaks down her live rig. From sound sources and sequencing to routing, mixing, and effects, while maintaining hands-on control and flow. She’ll also share practical techniques for translating studio ideas into a live context and building dynamic arrangements without relying on traditional “song mode.”
Get Out of Your Head and Into the Funk: 10 Minute Ableton Live Templates with Nelson Bandela
Artist and producer Nelson Bandela will demonstrate how he builds out different templates within Ableton Live to increase creativity and reduce stress while building 10 minute ideas. Over the span of this workshop he will give an example of using clip mode recording in Ableton to get ideas flowing. All roads lead to the funk if you havin fun.
THIS WORKSHOP IS FREE TO ATTEND AND ALL AGES.
King Britt presents Blacktronika night one
Night one of Blacktronika brings house music lineage and future-forward Black electronic sounds to BOOM Club with sets from King Britt, Ash Lauryn, and DJ Noir.
$36.53, includes all fees
Tickets HERE.
BOOMslang Volume 1 All Access Passes HERE
Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music with King Britt
Join King Britt for a deep dive iinto the roots, futures, and frequencies of Black electronic music. Blacktronika traces a genre-spanning sonic journey from Afrofuturist visionaries to the outer edges of club culture and the music world at large. Expect jams, context, and connection. Music as lineage, resistance, and possibility.
THIS WORKSHOP IS FREE TO ATTEND AND ALL AGES.
synth library closed
Our Synth Library is closed today. Come to our show! We’ll be back beepin’ and boopin’ soon.