November 9, 2020
Place of Assembly presents DB Burkeman
EPISODE II.
This week, the inimitable DB Burkeman, of drum and bass, art book, and art buying fame, joins us to discuss his role bringing Drum and Bass to New York, turning the Paradigm Agency office into a veritable modern art museum, and his own art books. Additionally, musician/performance artist M. Lamar cohosts.
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DB Burkeman (also known as DJ DB) is a British jungle/drum and bass DJ who moved from London to New York in 1989. He was an early pioneer in rave culture in the U.S. Also, he was partly responsible for bringing drum and bass to America. He was the co-founder of Breakbeat Science recordings & store, the first record store in the United States to specialize in drum and bass. In 2009, DB made a new venture into publishing, working with Rizzoli to publish his first book, "Stickers: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art," a.k.a. "Stuck-Up Piece of Crap" in 2010. Along with the release of the book, DB managed a related art exhibit entitled "Stuck-Up Exhibition Tour: The Culture and History of Stickers," which has gained national reach. The Stuck-Up project was featured at Miami's Art Basel, and the Streaming Museum in New York City among others.
In 2011, DB was brought on as a DJ for Clocktower Radio. He was on the air for five years as a DJ for Art On Air where he did a monthly eclectic mix tape show called BLURRINGradio.
In 2015 DB was hired by Paradigm Talent Agency to assist with A&R for their music dept. but ended up helping design the new New York flagship offices & also co-curating the art for the massive Paradigm head office in Beverly Hills.
He’s now published three books & has two new ones due out in January & March of 2021.
IG - @dbburkeman
M Lamar is a New York City-based composer, musician, performer, multimedia artist, and counter tenor. The New York Times describes his exhibit 'Negrogothic' as "a bracing alternative to the dispiriting traffic in blandly competent art clogging the New York gallery system these days, M. Lamar plumbs the depths of all-American trauma with visionary verve." Hilton Als wrote in The New Yorker of M. Lamar: "he deconstructs the persona of the diva even as he wraps himself in divalike hauteur."
https://www.mlamar.com
Relevant links:
https://blackbookmag.com/good-night-mr-lewis-1-109/dj-db-on-the-evolution-of-art-and-club-music/