The Bunker Hudson Valley with Function at Ether at Pocketbook Hotel
The Bunker Hudson Valley with Function at Ether at Pocketbook Hotel 549 Washington Street 21, 7p-12a
$20
On Friday, December 12, The Bunker Hudson Valley makes its debut at Ether in Pocketbook Hudson. This is our first event in the room and only the second night ever held there. We are bringing nearly 23 years of The Bunker’s dance floor tradition from New York City to the Hudson Valley for an evening of focused, high-intensity techno and open-ended exploration.
Ether is a brand-new club built beneath the Pocketbook Hudson Hotel and Baths. Ether sits beneath the hotel in the original boiler room, rebuilt as a tight, high-fidelity dance space. Custom soundsystem by A for Ara (a boutique Catskills studio founded by Etsy founder Robert Kalin and NASA engineer William Cowan), lighting by Nitemind, and a cork dance floor that stays comfortable and responsive over the course of the night. It is intimate, tuned, and made for full immersion.
Function (Dave Sumner) is one of techno’s essential figures and a cornerstone of the lineage that runs from New York to Berlin and beyond. From early releases on Synewave and his own Infrastructure label to the uncompromising Portion Reform project with Regis, Sumner’s work has helped shape the language of modern techno. As a founding member of Sandwell District and longtime Ostgut Ton artist, he has spent decades refining a singular, driving, hypnotic sound. His appearances at The Bunker have been unforgettable, and we are honored to welcome him to Hudson.
Bryan Kasenic, founder and curator of The Bunker, will open and guide the night. For more than two decades, Kasenic has championed adventurous electronic music through parties, labels, and community, connecting house, techno, experimental, and beyond into one continually evolving ecosystem. Expect a night that moves from deep, patient build to peak-room electricity in a space built for exactly that arc.
Pocketbook’s restaurant, Ambos, is open for dinner upstairs before the party from 5 PM to 10 PM. Reservations are recommended. If you are staying at Pocketbook on December 12, use code PARTY for a discount on your room.
We suggest familiarizing yourself with our values and code of conduct before attending the party: https://www.beyondbooking.org/values
The Bunker is a project of Beyond Booking Inc, a 501c3 non-profit organization that gives artists a path to enter into and thrive within the electronic music ecosystem. As a non-profit, it transcends the traditional booking agency in order to address the social and economic realities of performing artists. Our mission-oriented model is multi-pronged: it supports artists through a booking agency, record label, educational programming and events. All proceeds from The Bunker events go directly to funding Beyond Booking.