Baby, there’s no blood outside. That means it’s warehouse season.
It means it’s time for music to blare over industrial speakers. Feel bass bounce off the walls in ways that can’t be done at an outside venue. Be hot, sweaty and steamy, but in the best way possible. Smell cigarettes and weed lingering in the air because there isn’t an open roof.
These words describe an ideal party in warespace. A moment to dance without rest. A position meant to create memories with old and new friends. A delirium for space and techno lovers.
This is a Teksupport event.
The occasion collective has helped shape New York City’s underground nightlife by tapping into top trendsetters from around the world, adding Adam Beyer, Peggy Gou, Eric Prydz, Nicole Moudaber, Maceo Plex, Kevin de Vries, Seth Troxler, Michael Bibi, The Martinez Brothers. , Ricardo Villalobos, Mink, Victor Calderon, LP Giobbi, Konstantin Sibold, Nina Kraviz, PAWSA, Moodymann, Omar S, Dennis Cruz and Dixon. In fact, Teksupport is among the most sensitive to its elegance when it comes to showcasing some of the most productive underground talent, hosting parties with the most well-known artists at iconic festivals.
Beyond its talent-buying success, the Brooklyn-based company is credited with bringing some of Europe’s most major dance music brands to the United States for the first time. In 2014, Rob Toma, the founder of Teksupport, signed an exclusive partnership to bring Germany’s Time Warp to New York City for its United States debut, also marking Ricardo Villalobos, an esteemed Chilean-German producer, spinning his first show ever in the Big Apple. Then, in 2016, iconic Ibiza institution CircoLoco made its first appearance in the United States in partnership with Teksupport. Toma is also the exclusive U.S. partner for CircoLoco, which now throws editions across the country, and he helped launch CircoLoco Records with Rockstar Games, forming the video game giant’s first-ever music label. This year, Toma did it once again with DGTL by throwing the inaugural U.S. party of the Dutch festival in New York City and Los Angeles.
Given those brands’ commitment to staying only in Europe, how did Toma do it? One word: determination.
“I remember when [Time Warp] told me they’ll never come to the U.S., it’s just not a good market, it’s not big enough and people don’t understand,” Toma says. “I don’t really have the word ‘no’ in my vocabulary. I’m very persistent. I pushed on, and we ended up obviously bringing it here in 2014. Ever since then, it’s been history.”
However, this wasn’t the first time he’d been told “no. “Toma says CircoLoco didn’t seek to move to the U. S. either, but after five years he joined the brand. Since then, his relationship with the Ibizan party has grown. As Teksupport is now a partner that produces CircoLoco events in the country, Mexico and Belgium. He cites being active in major European events and living in Ibiza for many seasons since 2007 as what has helped him develop his credibility with party institutions.
Teksupport is also famous for opting for little-used venues for its events in New York City, such as a boat on the Hudson River, submarine factories, shipyards, underground dance halls, Grand Central Station, Brooklyn’s Arts District, and outdoor venues as a collective event. it does. It’s not limited to warehouses and indoor spaces. ArtsDistrict Brooklyn is noteworthy because Teksupport has an exclusive component with them for all things electronic music. In addition, the venue offers a 360-degree projection into its main space, with an overview of 72 4K projectors, “which wouldn’t be delicate for the budget of a paying developer,” says Toma. Teksupport houses components there to satisfy the existing thirst for content on social media, which the founder says was part of the inspiration to run collaboratively. Not only does the venue satisfy this social media preference, but it also creates an immersive visual delight while thrilling famous artists on the dance floor.
While the most famous partygoers are best known for their space and techno displays, they also host events for other music genres and various types of industries, helping to influence cultural moments in many spaces. The curatorial firm hosted Skepta’s New York Fashion Week and Virgil Abloh’s performance alongside Kid Cudi at CircoLoco Halloween. In addition, the collective is known for merging club culture, high fashion, and generation on their occasions, such as the presentation of the Ralph Lauren show at New York Fashion Week 2023, the largest show ever. in the story of the week: Dixon’s Transmodern art experience, Raisa Vanessa’s new exhibition. York Fashion Week rave party and fashion exhibition and photo exhibition by Sven Marquardt, the doorman of one of the world’s most iconic clubs, Berghain, located in the mecca of dance music, Berlin. The fact that Teksupport is identified in many industries and hosts their respective events demonstrates its multifaceted capabilities.
As for the fashion aspect, Toma says the collective are non-traditional venues located in Manhattan for New York Fashion Week, noting that he works with other fashion partners to “help lift the brand. “The above locations come from Capital, a former bank, and The Glasshouse, which offers 360-degree perspectives of New York City and New Jersey. On the tech side, Teksupport hosted events for corporations in the NFT world when blockchain-based tokens were still popular.
Perhaps the most important of the three is selling club culture. Toma explains that Teksupport achieves this by using other types of locations in New York, specifically Brooklyn. One example is Brooklyn Navy Yard, which has become, as some might claim, a mainstay of the warehouse party world because the area gives a European shopping vibe. Teksupport can house several screens there, as the location has 3 hangers.
Another area used through Teksupport is 99 Scott, located in Bushwick, Brooklyn. According to Toma, the smaller room has floor-to-ceiling windows, making it feel like a “more subtle warehouse. “This can also be noticed in the way the venue with an underground ambience is a designated concert hall, so it has many amenities, such as bathrooms, a luxury compared to warehouse events, as they tend to have only portable toilets. The collective continually hosts after-parties at 99 Scott, allowing sunlight to come in at dawn, creating an enchanting moment and a “real Berlin vibe,” says Toma.
“It’s important for us not only to have events with five, six, seven or 10,000 more people, but also to concentrate on events with a capacity of around 1,000 people and a little smaller,” he adds. “We think it appeals to another music lover for sure who maybe doesn’t need to be at a big rave. We can focus on a few small artists that we help expand and build their notoriety.
Teksupport hosted two Time Warp evenings in New York in 2023.
Teksupport recently flexed its commitment to club culture through its “New Year’s Week” parties. Talents that graced the stages of these events include John Summit, Patrick Topping, Damian Lazarus, Mind Against, HoneyLuv, The Martinez Brothers, Bonobo (Deejay Set) and Âme. Upcoming shows include Cristoph, Moodymann, 8Kays, Innellea, Vintage Culture, Marco Calora, KAS:ST, Solomun and Jamie Jones. Tickets for upcoming events can be found here.
This year we are also in for something dramatic: Teksupport will be hosting dance music performances on the largest luxury yacht in the Northeast, Cornucopia Majesty. The collective’s partnership with the luxury yacht will offer 18 techno and space parties. Concertgoers will have the opportunity to revel in some of the world’s top underground DJs on board. The program is called Teksupport at Sea and will begin on May 26.
The luxury event yacht will cruise the Hudson River, allowing attendees to gain stunning perspectives of the New York City skyline, the Statue of Liberty and New York Harbor. Teksupport first partnered with Cornucopia Majesty, which has a deck for up to 1,200 guests, last year on Labor Day Monday for an opener for Innervisions label boss Dixon’s final set.
Eric Prydz’s HOLO show.
It’s also worth noting that the collective recently hosted 3 sold-out nights of Eric Prydz’s HOLO show, an innovative feature as their visual production uses generation to create mesmerizing three-dimensional holographic images. This is one of the only times the audio-visual spectacle has been performed in the United States in a non-festive setting. Toma says Teksupport’s organization of the HOLO event in New York City in November 2023 took five years, even though the company has put on other Eric Prydz exhibits before: the song picker played as his techno alias Cirez D, billed as his Pryda progressive space. He was commissioned to film an ABDC set, in which Eric Prydz gets behind the decks as Cirez D for a back-to-back set with Adam Beyer.
However, the HOLO display “was a challenge for everyone,” says Toma, because the functionality requires a fast screen size, which most places can’t accommodate because the ceiling is rarely high enough or the area is too narrow. Maximo is commonly placed at festivals as a tent or an expression that can be built around the screen to give it the right size.
However, Teksupport has gotten a grip.
The venue used by the company, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was the right height and width for Teksupport to host the party there without compromising HOLO’s visual output. Toma says that each and every exhibit sold out and even other people came from all over the country. to attend. The three-night broadcast actually turned out to be a huge success for the main service of the match. For those who were there, the remarkable visual output did not disappoint.
Toma’s origins in making occasional plans began when he was a teenager. He hosted drinking nights in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where he was born and raised, for his best schoolmates when there was a long weekend and a holiday the next day. This allowed teens to party from 7 p. m. until 1 a. m. “That’s how I started and I haven’t stopped since,” he says.
Teksupport was founded in 2009 at the Winter Music Conference in Miami as “a hobby concept and love for this existing music that today we promote quite strongly,” says Toma. He started by hosting some exhibits on convention weekend, which coincides with Miami. Music Week and Ultra Music Festival every year, as it is known for attracting music lovers from the United States and around the world. Toma says his idea was to capture as many other people as possible. His ability to do it in a short amount of time Actually, Miami Music Week helped Teksupport become what it is today, one of the largest event collectives in New York City.
As one of the giants of the city’s music industry, Teksupport stands out from the rest for its commitment to highlighting the sounds of the underground, offering the European rave experience, putting on impressive exhibitions for the industries, hosting parties in underutilized spaces, and staying true to its philosophy of “offering a solution for space and techno in New York and beyond. “In fact, Teksupport exemplifies what it means to throw a genuine party.
“We’re in this exclusive scenario where we’re not a brand, but we’re also not a promoter. We are this fashion edition of what it can be or where it is headed,” says Toma.