NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN & MR JONATHAN TOUBIN
New York Night Train: "The almost nightly dance party run by Jonathan Toubin" – Brooklyn Vegan
Jonathan Toubin: "The dude who made NYC dance parties fun again" – Brooklyn Ski Club
I’m not one of the Schmucks who will lament over New York not being “what it used to be”, but I will say that we’re not fans of this dismal wasteland of Eurotrash tourists and guidos with polo shirts unbuttoned down to their navels grinding to the repetitive pounding of bad electro… Enter Jonathan Toubin, and his simple-yet-visionary approach to revamping the entire lanscape of New York and Brooklyn from midnight till the after hours. His New York Night Train parties have become stuff of sheer legend do to the simple fact that Toubin actually seems to care about what he is producing. His meticulous approach has paid off quite handsomely as pretty much each and every party with the Jonathan Toubin stamp on it seems to be the biggest party going on for that given night.”
- Jason Diamond, Impose Magazine
The dawn of 2010 finds New York Night Train conductor/soul proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin the most popular, prolific, and highest-earning rock and soul DJ on the North American nightclub circuit – taking the 45rpm dance party to a whole new level conceptually, culturally, and commercially. Though known for “maximum rock and soul” dance club sets and multi-media “Happenings,” his Soul Clap and Dance-Off party has, in the last year, put Mr. T on the map as soul man and left a huge footprint on contemporary urban nightlife. Working over 600 gigs the last two years, Mr. Jonathan Toubin has managed to keep one boot in the counter-culture from which he emerged (punk bars, DIY basements, loft parties, art galleries, music venues, and shady afterhours spots) while crossing over to dance clubs, prestigious festivals, boutique hotels, museums, ivy league colleges, fashion parties, gay events, arena pop/rock shows, and even raves – receiving nominations for nightlife awards from the fancier side of New York culture in the process.
Mr. Jonathan Toubin conceived the Soul Clap and Dance-Off more than three years ago as a monthly outlet to play his soul 45s to a small north Brooklyn underground art/rock social community in the spirit of the mid-1990s indie/punk scene parties. He added a brief dance-contest to the mix to make the event more interesting. As this humble makeshift neighborhood underdog evolved into an institution, Mr. T employed the party’s popularity as a weapon against tired hit nights, 80s nights, and other mediocre contemporary dance culture – offering an alternative in the possibility of dancing to exciting music most of us have never heard before. The epic size, frequency, and geographical breadth of the Soul Clap the last couple of years has been a seed for a new wave of soul dance culture among indie rockers, punks, and hipsters first in Brooklyn, next in Manhattan, and, in the last year, around the world – garnering slews of imitators and developing a new nightlife economy everywhere from Portland, ME to Portland, OR, from Canada to Mexico and even as far away as the Middle East.
A label-owner/veteran musician/published academic/career journalist, Mr Jonathan Toubin began regularly DJing punk/garage/noise rock weekly at the Lower East Side’s legendary Motor City Bar in 2006. Within a year, Mr. Toubin was working nightly and mixing in eclectic genres (soul, jazz, psych, international styles, etc.). Casting mp3s, CDs, and eventually LPs aside to step up to the challenge of spinning exclusively in the biggest and baddest musical medium ever, the 45rpm vinyl record, New York Night Train’s conductor increasingly became known as a soul/garage 45 DJ. Focusing on dancers instead of collectors, cutting $1 commoners with $100 rarities with strategic pitching, sequencing, EQ-ing, and transitioning, Mr T distinguished himself from typical mod, garage, northern soul, and funk 45 retro-nights by developing a playfully unique DIY sound that growls meaner, thinks deeper, and runs faster. Almost four years of nightly gigging in a variety of settings has offered NYNT’s conductor a huge advantage over his peers in that his labor also served as an infinite laboratory regarding the subtleties of how, without playing hits, to make a variety of cultures and subcultures dance together – uniting even the squarest weekend dance floors under the undeniable power of his mixes. Along the way he’s not only shared the DJ booth with the likes of David Johansen, Genesis P-Orridge, Gibby Haynes, Jello Biafra, Ian Svenonius, Kid Congo Powers, Simeon Coxe (Silver Apples!), the Black Lips, the Shins, etc, and thrown parties featuring live peformances by everyone from King Khan and the BBQ/Shrines to Sky Saxon to the Oh Sees to Quintron and Ms. Pussycat to HEALTH to Dum Dum Girls to Andrew WK, but he’s also DJ-ed at shows acts as diverse as Erykah Badu, Mission of Burma, MGMT, Black Mountain, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dinosaur Jr., Les Savy Fav, etc.
2010 finds worldwide New York Night Train parties growing in quality, diversity, and popularity everywhere: the worldwide Soul Clap and Dance-Off parties, the weekly Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! at Home Sweet Home, and the new monthlies Polyglot Discotheque at Secret Project Robot and Rocks Off Cruises Ya Ya Yacht circling Manhattan on the Half-Moon. Despite his success, Mr. T refuses to get comfy – embarking upon new series Happenings, debuting his new international 60s freakbeat format, launching his new web site/mp3 blog, working on his first commercial mix, and, in general, continuing to prove that nightlife doesn’t have to be boring.
learn more about Mr. Jonathan Toubin, New York Night Train, and the Soul Clap Press Page. Download the printable Soul Clap/Mr JT press kit here. Find Mr Jonathan Toubin’s promotional pictures for print and online here.
Follow New York Night Train on Twitter (https://twitter.com/NY_Night_Train), Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-Night-Train/47167209984) and Myspace http://www.myspace.com/newyorknighttrain). To book Mr. Jonathan Toubin, the Soul Clap and Dance-Off, or any other NY Night Train party please contact Michelle Cable at Panache Booking.
Mr. Jonathan Toubin/NY Night Train Current Parties:
- Soul Clap and Dance-Off - monthly in New York at Glasslands and Chicago at Beauty Bar – plus on the road regularly. North America’s most popular soul party!
- Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! – weekly at Home Sweet Home – maximum rock and soul dancing every Friday night! This popular weekly institution features Mr Jonathan Toubin and guest DJs like David Johansen, Jon Spencer, and Ian Svenonius.
- The Shank - weekly at Badlands – Mr T is the resident DJ at Brooklyn’s biggest and most notorious afterhours every Saturday night/Sunday morning. The wild one – goes ’til 8am!
- NY Night Train Wednesdays – Motor City Bar – NYNT’s original party and only mellow hangout – a downtown subcultural “Cheers”… Mr JT DJs and you never no who may pop by! Various Black Lips, Shins, Butthole Surfers, Bad Seeds, etc have all turned up to do guest DJ sets and everybody from Jack White to Noel Gallagher to Scarlet Johanson have hung out…
- Thursday Thump – Enid’s – curated by Mr. Jonathan Toubin but DJ-ed by Brooklyn’s finest
- Rocks Off Cruises presente NY Night Train’s Ya Ya Yacht - monthly soul dancing while circling Manhattan on the Half Moon from May to September
- Polyglot Discotheque – somewhat monthly at Secret Project Robot/Live With Animals. NY Night Train’s latest party – featuring dancing to trippy international 60s freakbeat, psych, etc w/Toubin and Josh Styles (Smashed! Blocked!), visuals, go go dancers, etc.
- New York Night Train Happening – irregularly in NYC in conjunction with Todd P and Panache Booking and randomly on the road – visuals by Spencer Bewley, go go dancing by Anna Copa Cabanna, DJ-ing by Jonathan Toubin and guests – plus live bands and performance artists – a more elegant Exploding Plastic Inevitable for our times…
Former Parties:
2007 – 2009: Boogaloo Shampoo – Beauty Bar Manhattan/Brooklyn (weekly)
2007 – 2009: Animal Train Happening – Glasslands (monthly)
2008: Secret Santo and Declassified – Santos’ Party House (weekly)
2007 – 2008: Ants in Your Pants Dance Party – Savalas (weekly)
2007: Loose Caboose – Club Midway (weekly)
Mr Jonathan Toubin has been billed with DJs like: Andy Rourke (The Smiths) – Billy Miller and Miraim Linna (Norton Records) – Brian DeGraw (Gang Gang Dance) – Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic, etc) – Cosmo Baker (The Rub) – Dale Crover (The Melvins) – David Johansen (New York Dolls, etc) – Devendra Banhardt – Gabriel Roth (Dap-Tone Records, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings) – Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV) – Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) – House of House (DFA) – Howie Pyro (Intoxica Radio, Danzig, D-Generation, The Blessed, etc) – Ian Svenonius (Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Chain and the Gang, etc) – Ivan Sunshine (Hidden Fees) – James Chance (The Contortions), James White and the Blacks) – James Murphy (LCD Soundsystems) – Jared Swiley (Black Lips) - Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedy’s etc) – Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, etc) – Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore, etc) – Josh Styles (Smashed! Blocked!) – Kid Congo Powers (Gun Club, Cramps, etc) – Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio) – Moses Archuleta (Dear Hunter) – Mr. Fine Wine (WFMU’s Downtown Soulville) – Nick Zinner (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) – Paul Ryder (The Happy Mondays) – Phast Phreddie (Backdoor Man, Subway Soul, etc) – Primo (Oldies Night) – Sammy Yaffa (New York Dolls, Hanoi Rocks) – Simeon Coxe (Silver Apples) – $mall Change – Steve Krakow (Plastic Crimewave Sound) – The Shins – Tim Warren (Crypt Records)
New York Night Train throws parties featuring DJ Jonathan Toubin and live acts like: …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead (2-piece hardcore lineup) – A.R.E. Weapons – Andrew WK – Awesome Color – Beets – Black Time – Blank Dogs – Brimstone Howl – Calvin Johnson – Chain and the Gang – Cheap Time – Crystal Stilts – Death Set – Digital Leather – Drones – Dum Dum Girls – Excepter – Fresh and Onlys – Garotas Suecas – Gogogo Airheart – Golden Triangle – Grass Widow – Greg Ashley – HEALTH – Heavy Trash – Homosexuals – Indian Jewelry – Intelligence – James Chance – Julee Cruise – Kid Congo and the Pink Monkeybirds – King Khan and the BBQ – King Khan and the Shrines – Mika Miko – Notekillers – Oh Sees – Pink Reason – Psychic Ills – Psychedelic Horseshit – Pterodactyl – Quintron and Ms Pussycat – Screaming Females – Sky "Sunlight" Saxon – The Slits – So Cow – Spits – Stalkers – Strange Boys – Suckers – Surfer Blood – Talk Normal – Thalia Zedek – Turbo Fruits – Vietnam
Mr Jonathan Toubin DJs at shows with live acts like:
Black Mountain – Bon Iver – Davilla 666 – Dinosaur Jr – Erykah Badu – Faith No More – Fucked Up – The Go – HEALTH - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Katy Red – King Khan and the BBQ – King Khan and the Shrines – LCD Soundsystems – Les Savy Fav – MGMT – Mission of Burma – Monotonix – Nicole Atkins – Ponytail – Quintron and Ms Pussycat – Spank Rock – Ty Segall
Mr Jonathan Toubin DJs at festivals/special events like:
Chaos in Tejas (Austin) – CMJ (NYC) – Fashion Week (NYC) – Fun Fun Fun (Austin) – Mardi Gras (New Orleans and Mobile) – NXNW (Toronto) – Ponderosa Stomp (New Orleans) – Pop Montreal – Sled Island (Calgary) – SXSW (Austin) – Todd P’s MtyMx (Monterrey) – Vice Scion Garage Rock Festival (Portland, OR) – WFMU Record Fair (NYC)
MR JONATHAN TOUBIN’S PRESS PICS
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