The Bunker present No Way Back Nonstop at Nowadays
The Bunker present No Way Back Nonstop at Nowadays 56-06 Cooper Avenue 21+, 11p-11p
$30-40
What began as a now-legendary 12-hour party with a leaky roof in Detroit in 2007 returns for its 13th edition in New York. This year The Bunker’s No Way Back expands to a full 24 hours, from 11:59 PM Saturday until 11:59 PM Sunday, taking over Nowadays for a special edition of Nowadays Nonstop. So get your presales, book your flights, and prepare to strap in for an extended journey.
No Way Back residents BMG, Bryan Kasenic, Carlos Souffront, Derek Plaslaiko, Erika, Mike Servito, Patrick Russell and Scott Zacharias will play extended sets that flow into one another, creating a continuous 24-hour journey through the many angles of No Way Back.
We’ll of course have a full venue transformation by Amber Gillen and the Infinite Dimensions crew.
Our aim is to make this as safe a space as possible, with a team in place to help ensure that. This is a harassment-free zone where you can let go of the form society forces you to hold and be totally free. The you beyond boundaries, beyond the limitations of others’ perceptions. This is something for your mind, your body and your soul. When you feel this freedom, when you touch what you may have thought was untouchable, you will quickly realize that you are too far gone and there is no way back.
This is an eternal concept. We didn’t invent this, and the people who may think they did didn’t either. This is our cultural heritage from a time before history. It has taken many forms, from dancing around the fire at a coming-of-age ceremony, imbibing soma, to losing it on the dance floor of a parking garage to Larry Levan, or in some secret warehouse room under the actual road to the feverish sound of Ron Hardy, or climbing up those stairs to Heaven and seeing Miss Heaven 1 and Miss Heaven 2 jacking on top of the speakers to Ken Collier.
We recognize where this music comes from, its original Black, Trans, Queer and Latinx roots, and the serious library of advanced technological thoughts that came from their ecstatic music. Detroit Techno was inevitable when you think about it.
This is our generation picking up those threads and making our own new fabric of the space-time continuum. This is our generation returning to the source.