NASH NYC: The DJ and PART Founder Rethinking Art and Nightlife

Nash: PART NYC — Party and Art Re-Thought | Antakly Projects
Antakly Projects  ·  Music  ·  New York NASH Party & Art Re-Thought  ·  Belgrade  ·  New York  ·  Since 2010

DJ, producer, founder of PART. Belgrade guitar player turned New York minimal techno architect. 22 Renwick Street. Rooftops. Empty lofts. The Great Refusal.

Belgrade  ·  Los Angeles  ·  New York Minimal Tech-House  ·  PART Collective Ibiza Sonica  ·  Paris Radio One
Nash, PART NYC Nash  ·  PART
Nash DJing Nash  ·  At the decks
Nash, rooftop party, New York Rooftop  ·  New York
PART is what happens when someone refuses to accept that a night out needs to be ordinary. Nash built it from a storefront in Tribeca. This conversation is why Antakly Projects exists.

Nash is a Belgrade-born DJ, producer, and the founder of PART (Party and Art Re-Thought), a New York collective built on the premise that a night out can be something more than a night out. Musically educated on guitar in Belgrade in the late 1990s, he began DJing house music in Los Angeles in 2005 before moving to New York in 2008, where his sound evolved toward deeper, more minimal territory.

In the early 2010s, Nash and his creative circle established PART in a raw storefront space at 22 Renwick Street in Tribeca, where he lived for a year while the entire building sat empty and construction unfinished. The collective focuses on bringing creators, artists, and music lovers together in environments that are as visually stimulating as they are aurally. Private lofts, galleries, rooftops.

He has played alongside Matthew Dear, Tim Green, Adultnapper, Thugfucker, Guti, Fred P, and Simon Baker. His sound has been broadcast on Ibiza Sonica Radio and trusted by Gilles Wasserman on Paris Radio One. He produces in collaboration with Teo Cretella from London.

"We gave up the money for new drums to our parents so they could stock up on flour in case of an embargo. There were always bombs around the music I like."
Nash  ·  on Electric Chimney and NATO, 1999
The conversation
01

Greatest inspirations and musical influences?

As a kid I started getting into music with Prodigy, and later when I started playing guitar, moved on to Metallica, Pantera. I had a band in sixth grade called Electric Chimney. We like to think we would have made it if it weren't for the NATO bombing in Serbia in 1999. We gave up the money for new drums to our parents so they could stock up on flour in case of an embargo. So there was always intensity, and bombs, around the music I like. I love feeling solid energy on the floor, I love to make people move, and not just move but move with some intensity.

Lately I have been playing productions by Gorge, Martin Landsky, Mario and Vidis, Stimming, Alex Niggeman. And I used to love Matthew Dear's DJing. I hope to hear him spin more.

02

Greatest sets you have heard?

This year I heard two amazing sets at festivals where I felt like I was in class and professors were showing me how to DJ: Steve Bug at Sunday School, Miami 2011, and Martin Buttrich at Movement, Detroit 2011. A lot of guys my age, or younger, tend to forget that there is a lot that comes with experience. Also, Davide Squillace in the city a week before Detroit was unreal.

03

Most memorable set so far for you?

We just had an amazing rooftop party in Greenpoint, but the most memorable were definitely the parties at 22 Renwick, by Spring and Greenwich in West SoHo. A storefront loft where I used to live for a year while the entire building was empty. You cannot find a more underground space in the middle of the city. We had no cop nor neighbour complaints. People mention these parties to this day, over a year later.

04

Favourite websites?

Beatport, and all my soccer news websites. I don't really do blogs, but if I did I'd be on yours all the time. I am wary of the hyper-inflated use of TV and technology. I am more into books than computers, Pasolini rather than Spielberg, classical theatre rather than Broadway and Hollywood, artistic freedom rather than greed.

05

Anything else you would like to share?

He left a quote. It is below.

Herbert Marcuse  ·  One-Dimensional Man  ·  Submitted by Nash

"Whether ritualized or not, art contains the rationality of negation. In its advanced positions, it is the Great Refusal, the protest against that which is. The modes in which man and things are made to appear, to sing and sound and speak, are modes of refuting, breaking, and recreating their factual existence. But these modes of negation pay tribute to the antagonistic society to which they are linked. Separated from the sphere of labor where society reproduces itself and its misery, the world of art which they create remains, with all its truth, a privilege and an illusion."

Herbert Marcuse  ·  One-Dimensional Man

Stay curious,

Leila Antakly
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