reOPENed returns featuring special guest MANNIE FRESH!

reOPENed: Just Blaze, DJ Soul, DJ Gravy, Max Glazer, Micro Don

EVERY FRIDAY

10:00 PM 21+

$10 before 11pm, $20 after

You can't hold a good party down. When your headlining DJ is such a demanded producer that even his friends try to snatch up his beats, you know you have a movement on your hands. After a months hiatus, reOPENed returns with a vengeance on December 3rd, this time featuring yet another titan of beatmaking.

Mannie Fresh’s beats were perhaps the most important factor in setting off the Cash Money revolution that began in the late 90’s and is still being felt today. His signature style, utilizing analog sounds and booty popping percussion to create dense, layered habitats for drawling rappers, has become synonymous with New Orleans and is echoed in the work of nearly every active producer. Fresh began his career in the group New York Incorporated and followed up with a cult favorite duet project with MC Gregory D. His mainstream success resulted from becoming the in-house producer for Cash Money, crafting classics like “Ha,” “Bling Bling,” “Back That Azz Up,” “Get Ya Roll On” and “Real Big” which are now part of hip-hop canon. His newer sound, as featured on the Imma Get Mine LP incorporates jazz, bounce, dancehall and soul. Behind the wheels at Santos Party House, he will bring a New Orleans twist to New York’s best party.

Mickey Factz Live!

Mickey Factz with Telephoned, Machinedrum (feat. Jesse Boykins III)
Built by MeanRed
Thursday, April 1
7:00 PM 18+
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE

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Bronx-born spitter Mickey Factz graced the covers of XXL as a "rapper to watch in '09". But over the year, as his fan base grew, he hung back and kept a low profile. We soon found out that this was a tactical move: On New Year's Day 2010, he dropped an experimental mixtape as the first part of his #Alpha series. The mixtape, called The Dark Pheonix, showcases left-field beats, guests musicians such as Pheonix, and of course, his lyrical double dutch. Unlike a lot of emerging hip hop artists, Mickey's rhymes boast both swagger and intellect. His songs are dense and meaty... a refreshing break from bubble-gum rap that relies on airhorns and "ayyyy's". If Dark Pheonix is an early indicator of the year Mickey is about to have, we're all ears.

On April 1st, he will be joined by hometown heroes Telephoned. This dynamic duo was born one night in Brooklyn when DJ/producer Sammy Bananas (Fool's Gold) and singer/party starter Maggie Horn (Good Peoples) decided to record their own version of T-Pain's "Can't Believe It." Their track was neither remix nor cover - instead, the duo fashioned a postmodern take on both, warping the original beat into a hypnotic club track and bringing out the dreamy qualities only hinted at in Pain's auto-tuned melodies. Whether morphing Ron Browz "Pop Champagne" into a spacey dancefloor gem ("Bottle service electro meets Triplets Of Belleville" says Ms Horn), dubstepping "Turn My Swag On," or re-imagining DJ Webstar's "Dancin On Me" as a BK funky anthem, these Telephoned covers are instantly addictive and massively charming.

Also on deck is Brooklyn-based producer, Machinedrum. He has been crafting beats for the most exciting emerging electro acts in the city, and showcases them through his famous CassetteNYC parties. His style is a mixture of "instrumental hip hop, soul-stylin’, vintage synths and rich, structured glitchiness." He is joined by BET’s 106th and Park favorite, Jesse Boykins III. This 24-year-old soulster rides the consummate balance between experimental electro-soul and commercial R&B.