Spybar Radio presents the Spybar Radio Artist Showcase

focusing on up-and-coming locals that have been featured on the EDM Chicago Takeover series, as well as a few guest spot surprises - all being recorded for inclusion in our soundcloud series.

Hosted by Kevin Alvarez, join us in the SpyLounge all throughout 2025.

We're opening at 7pm for another one of our very popular ABLETON WORKSHOPS hosted by ORVILLE KLINE, covering upgrades in Ableton 12.2 as well as features of Ableton Move - there will also be a dance music production presentation by KWAL - we invite you to stay to see him headline the DJ portion of the night with support by FOURTH CO.

Join us every month for your chance to submit mixes to be featured on the station and to preform at Spybar.

Spybar Radio Featured Artist Night 004: KWAL

This Baker from Manchester’s spent the best part of 4 years cooking up house heaters that are redefining the genre as we know it. The DJ and producer’s forward-thinking tracks have topped electronic music charts the world over, with his deft DJ skills winning him slots alongside Moodymann, Jaguar and Todd Terje at Fabric, Park Life and Snowdance Festival amongst others. He’s also co-founder and resident of bass-happy label You&Me Records and co-founder of Hide&Seek festival in Cheshire. Baker’s bangers are making big waves with his house-rooted tracks drawing on 90s rave, electro and minimal with future-facing yet nostalgic results. Baker's tracks are infused with vertebrae-vibrating basslines guaranteed to turn up the heat on any dance floor.

Josh Baker

+area code continues with +extensions at spybar debuting nyc-based label: short circuit. massive up and comers gio lucca and dámelo join label boss jeff sorkowitz with support from desma.

+area code extensions with short circuit

longstoryshort isn’t interested in coloring inside the music industry’s lines. Driven by the conviction that pure, authentic creativity can’t be cleanly compartmentalized, the New York native’s career is an act of subversion illustrating in real-time that the most compelling art comes from a refusal to conform.

This mentality imbues his music, yielding a sound that’s one of zero. It’s nuanced and unconventional, a sonic signature shaped by UK garage, future garage, and bass house influence, with high energy andemotional charge to boot. Dark, forward-thinking, and deeply resonant, it’s “dance music for the heavy-hearted,” as he calls it — melodic enough to evoke emotion, heavy enough to shake a warehouse at 2AM. As he’s grown his catalog, it’s become clear that longstoryshort thrives in contrasts such as these.

His style is raw but refined, melancholic yet euphoric, non-commercial but still successful.

longstoryshort Presents: IN MY MIND

Will Clarke’s sound stems from both his native Bristol and his seasonal home in Ibiza; fusing the best of Bristol’s bass elements with the upfront house music sensibilities of the white isle. On his approach to producing, Will says “I make music for clubbers, not DJs. I sample a lot of old school rave tracks from the ’90s, with 21st Century production techniques.” Outside of DJing, he also has a podcast, airing over 100 episodes in talks with guests including Patrick Topping, Stacey Pullen and Alan Fitzpatrick.

Will Clarke

Chaos In The CBD are back in Chicago and they have an album to celebrate. The New Zealand duo are house-music favorites and after a growing discography of singles for the likes of Rhythm Section, Mule Musiq, and their own in Dust we Trust label, as well as their Fabric compilation, they finally add a long player to their catalogue. A Deeper Life is out May 9th and we're excited to have them as part of their album tour closing out Memorial Day Weekend!!

Chaos In The CBD: A Deeper Life Album Tour

Factory 93 Records and Avision celebrate the release of "All Over (NYC Mix)" at Spybar!

Free advanced tickets while they last!*

Fortunate to grow up around the rich club culture of NYC and influenced by the sounds around him, Avision now finds himself helping to usher in a new wave of techno for the New York scene.

Anthony Cardinale aka Avision started young on the turntables at the age of 12, gained his first residency at 15, and hasn’t looked back since. Around the same time as his DJ career started, he began to hone his production skills in the studio, and has developed a distinctly New York-flavored techno sound that he’s now bringing to the world. Over the last number of years, he’s had releases on a range of influential labels across the spectrum of techno; from Ellum and Drumcode, to Hardgroove, Truncate and Factory 93 to name a few.



Factory 93 x Avision Release Party

It's a jam-packed night full of amazing DJs celebrating Johnny's birthday!

TECHNASIA

ELIAS

ANTROBUS

Technasia (Johnny's Birthday Bash)

Romanian minimal king, Barac returns to Chicago to celebrate the Tied 12th Anniversary Lunar Drift After Party. His stamp on fuzzy-rolling house is one that helped shape the minimal sound as we know it today.

He is joined by Tied residents Max Jacobson and Tyson Dias.

Tied 12th Anniversary Afterparty ft. Barac

Deep house duo RUZE releases are full of rolling grooves, minimal beats and feel-good rhythms. The pair exploded onto the global house circuit following their 2021 Chapters EP on PIV, followed by their 2022 Hardwire EP on Pitch Records. The pair has a knack for creating music that feels equally at home deep in the dance floor or on an Ibizan terrace. RUZE has played Tomorrowland, Pacha Barcelona, Womb Tokyo, Fabric London and more, and their latest LP is a beautiful showcase of the dynamism of their production style. Now, they’re the best-selling artists in Beatport’s Minimal Deep Tech genre, and their 2024 LP was the number-one release just five days after it dropped.

with GARRETT BELSCHNER B2B MIKEY HAHN B2B JAKE G

RUZE

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