SELECTED SOUL CLAP & MR JONATHAN TOUBIN QUICK PRESS BLURBS
"Widely acknowledged as the mother of all soul jams"
"New York's best soul party" "Jonathan Toubin is the only person we can call a "professional DJ" without involuntarily making a jack-off motion with our hand.... his parties are like what Ancient Stonehenge was like if it was, as archaeologists theorize, filled with people dressed many times better than you completely losing their shit." "New York Night Train's Jonathan Toubin throws the raddest underground rock parties in New York" "DJ Jonathan Toubin is creating his own kind of dance revolution" "It's a goddamn national treasure! DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin returns with his bottomless crate of soul 45s and his crazy wicked fun dance night called New York Night Train Soul Clap!" - Wm Steven Humphrey, Portland Mercury "The Soul-Clap is a party without parallel where you'll experience dance hysteria and soul grooves you'll never hear again." "Jonathan Toubin grew up punk in Texas and learned some lasting lessons--like play hard, play fast, play loud and play with people's expectations. So when he started his own all-45s DJ night in New York City, he brought out something different than sweet Northern soul or slo-mo funky grooves. Instead, his New York Night Train Soul Clap Dance-Offs showcase the raw and wild soul 'n' roll that connects the r 'n' b shouters of the '50s and the hard-ass funk freaks of the '70s." "He spins nothing but 45-rpm records. He eradicates inhibitions. He induces mass hysteria. And sometimes, he even stuffs his vinyl into antique suitcases, gases up the Winnebago, and roadtrips to various American outposts of hipsterdom." "Toubin is trying to bring a sense of community back to nightlife, fighting against the alienation that's seeped into cool culture. And if there's anyone who can do it, it's Toubin, soaked in charisma, honestly able to tout grandstand titles like America's Favorite Soul Dance DJ" "By 1 am the club was quite literally steamy from all the dancing bodies, the man has the golden touch when it comes to getting people to shake their booties. Dance partners Sam Rockwell and Marisa Tomei shimmied it up like the best of Brooklyn hipsters, and all of a sudden we were at the kind of party we all thought we'd be going to when we first moved to New York. Now if only someone had thought to invite us to the house party where Bill Murray showed up one night, our party lives would be complete." - Gabi Porter, Metromix NYC "A couple weeks back, I was at the awesome Beachland Ballroom in my hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, when I was lured into the venue's adjoining tavern by a throng so frenzied I thought Lady Gaga must have made an impromptu drop-by. Nope - it was New York City DJ Jonathan Toubin, whose Soul Clap & Dance-Off has grown from its humble Brooklyn-underground beginnings to a national phenomenon. Armed with an exceptional collection of vintage soul and R&B 45s, Toubin has been crisscrossing the country, spinning tunes while dancers compete for the grand prize (in Nashville, $100). The scene in Cleveland was bonkers, as sweaty contestants - identified by numbers on their backs - writhed, squirmed, shimmied and bounced the night away, while onlookers cheered, laughed and gawked at the incredible display of flailing bodies." "Sporting a collection of 45s worthy of the Library Of Congress, Toubin cuts good old R&B jams with Northern soul, garage pop, funk, and beyond, seamlessly blending the classic with the obscure. His Soul Clap & Dance Off has become infamous for setting a funky fire in peoples' hearts and orchestrating a hostile takeover of dance floors across the nation." - The Onion Milwaukee "Legendary" "The mid-'60s to early-'70s r &b and funk will have you dancing with the stars." "A shimmy-worthy mix of maximum rock'n'soul" "Jonathan Toubin is a local DJ with a penchant for two things: soul obscurities and making people move. He spreads his gospel by way of tireless sets at bars and clubs across the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, at which he'll host dance-offs, invite artists and other musicians to contribute to the merriment, and spin a heady blend of what he calls " Maximum Rock and Soul."... Expect even more music, dancing, and rambunctiousness than usual, knowing full well that "the usual" is already pretty hard to top." "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." "DJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin is known for single-handedly revamping NYC nightlife with his fun/sweaty New York Night Train Soul Clap dance parties" "An eve of 45-rpm soul sizzlin' and expressive dance." "It was ridiculous and fun and had me hoping Soul Clap returns" "Our festival experience began with an oh-so-soulful DJ set by New York genius Jonathan Toubin." "Toubin's gig on the decks at Green Room during last year's Pop was a major rager, so if you're into incredibly rare Northern and raw soul, this night will definitely have you shakin' it like a bowl of soup." - Johnson Cummins, Montreal Mirror " (The Soul Clap) matches a burgeoning star of NYC's DJ underground (Jonathan Toubin) with a more organic, infinitely more sweaty-fun stack of sounds (a long-awaited alternative to the ever more stodgy and conservative realm of "dance" music) and a fervently followed format that features a dance contest judged by a distinguished panel of local celebs" "Jonathan Toubin, the New York City DJ who turns ho-hum rock shows and tin-canned dance parties into transcendent nightlife experiences. Spinning rock and soul on 45, Toubin gets the rock kids to dance and the clubbers to rock, meshing together live music, performance, film and dance, dance, dance!" "A post-punker with a penchant for sweet soul DJ Jonathan Toubin throws New York's premier dusty 45 party" "(Toubin's) finely honed collection of '50s and '60s soul and R&B - the grittier, the better - to help you get over the hump by shaking your rump." "If you've been heating up the dance floor at one of San Francisco's many soul nights, tonight is the night to graduate to the big leagues - DJ Jonathan Toubin, the "soul proprietor" of the New York dance scene, is in town. "New York Night Train's Mr. Jonathan Toubin has solidified his reputation as the premier soul party engineer and the hardest working guy in New York with packed parties at underground venues." "Have you ever thought 'I wish I could be on Soul Train'? You have your chance this Saturday." "Jonathan Toubin knows how to make people dance like it’s the 1960s. In a society where bumping uglies on the dance floor is totally the “thing to do” Jonathan manages to bring us back to our roots, with pure dance moves." "Even thought Toubin isn't entirely unique in using only 45s, his skill at transitioning one song into another ("segueways") is seamless, and his depth and range of choice songs, primarily from the mid-1960s, are far from the mainstream yet extremely danceable. " "But by the end of the night, I got Toubin's joke: He and Svenonius know how to make people freak out. I mean really lose it. They can access a primal human circuitry that somehow prefigured the advent of 1960s boogaloo, international freakbeat and garage rock. All that "nntzuh-nntzuh" Euro syncopation, all that New Order, even ol' Marr and Morrissey, were little queefs of ozone compared to the voltage that these two have amassed over years of rummaging through record bins. They've learned how to incite a kind of bond breaking, a freedom claiming, in young psyches." "With his impeccable taste and extensive vinyl collection, Jonathan always seems to know exactly the right track to get bodies moving on the dance floor. " - Jonathan Toubin has played over 300 gigs a year and has been melting the face off of crowds with his "maximum rock and soul" approach to DJing. If there will be anything to give you more hipster street cred this week, it'll be this 50s and 60s revival that the rockabilly guys will be jealous of." "New York party promoter and soul DJ Jonathan Toubin plays the best boogaloo, 60's garage rock, blues, psych, and just about any other music that comes finely pressed on 45. The kids who fill the dance floor are girls with thick bangs and tight sweaters, and boys who wish they were a Rolling Stone - no wall flowers. "Jonathan Toubin is the dude who made NYC dance parties fun again. Tonight is the third anniversary of what may be the best party of the past few years, Soul Clap and Dance Off at Glasslands." "I remember the first time I walked into one of DJ Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance-Off parties at Glasslands Gallery. Wiggly mamas were shaking their manes and hitting the splits, gangly boys were swinging from the balcony, and the two dance contest finalists, having already ripped their shirts off, were vibe-a-ratin' like washing machines in the middle of a cheering crowd. And the music, man! I was getting hit by squall after squall of screaming, crackling soul tracks, some pitched so fast that I hardly knew how to move to them - so I did like everyone else and just let the music jerk my body around, flailing with the breathless abandon of a toddler. I'm a big fan of sixties soul music, but every song was new to me, each so raw and greasy and BIG and palpable that they had me scrunching my nose up and torquing my neck in this ecstatic frenzy. Now, I make a point of seeking out those rowdy shows and crazy parties that leave you sweat-soaked and grinning uncontrollably, but I've been hard-pressed to find anything that can top the roaring bliss of a New York Night Train Soul Clap." "As previously noted in this here reputable rag, Jonathan Toubin's Soul Clap and Dance-Off shindig is truly New York City's most stimulating all-night dance party, easily trumping all other soul or retro nights." - MyOpenBar.com "Dance-offs aren't just for b-boys and Britney anymore" - Deidre Fulton, The Phoenix "One of the biggest dance parties we've seen" - HaveFaithInWorthlessKnowledge.com (Portland, Maine) "Uno de los mejores selector que mis ojos hayan visto y mis oidos excuchado." "'Dogzstar'in gundemimize fizyolojik bir bomba gibi dusen New York'un en hip adamlarindan biri masasinin basinda oturup yazmayicizmeyi birakip Istanbul'a gelecek ve kalemi yerine dondurdugu plaklarla hunerlerini gosterecek. 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In this stale city that makes even the richest poor, and the poorest gone; in the shadows of the newly birthed and vacant luxury condominiums that rise around us, in the crush of drunken NYU students hiking up their skirts to piss in the gutter and belligerent senior account executives furious that people are having fun downstairs from their loft-style 300sqft railroad apartments, we need this sound you're summoning up--this primal music howling out the past like the voice of everything that needs saying. We need it and we'll take it on every night that you'll bring it..." Follow New York Night Train on: To book Mr. Jonathan Toubin, the Soul Clap and Dance-Off, or any other NY Night Train party Find Mr Jonathan Toubin's promotional pictures for print and online here. Read Soul Clap/Jonathan Toubin press here. Listen to Mr. JT's "NY Night Train Soul Clap Classics Volume 1" mix here.
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