jonny sender

contact: jonnysender@gmail.com

The early 1980’s in NYC––
In the dark basements and clubs of Downtown Manhattan I was playing bass in Konk when I got my first DJ residency at the Pyramid Club on Avenue A.
Currently living in France, I’ve been Djing in Geneva, Paris and Japan and releasing records and remixes on Codek records and remixes for other labels as well.

Having spent the 1980s always out—dancing to Larry Levan—to Mudd Club DJs—Jazzy Jay and Bambaataa at Club Negril, I moved into the 1990s holding down DJ gigs playing underground music I loved, making people move. Spinning for Pre­-Williamsburg scene makers—SFX soaked Dancehall 7”s, alongside NY party-­starter Hip Hop joints for three years running on Sunday nights at Nell’s. And all the time, keeping the House “feeling” going strong, playing underground House and disco in the New York tradition.

Konk, described as the musical juggernaut of downtown Manhattan was front and center when disco and hip-hop collided with post-punk and the electronic underground. Konk did many gigs, Mudd Club, Danceteria, but it was especially our gigs plus my repeated visits to the Paradise Garage and The Loft on Prince street that continues to show me the musical way forward.

NYC, Central Park In the early 1970’s:
The Bethesda Fountain in Central Park. The revolving crowd of Puerto Rican, Dominican and Afro-Latinx musicians were keeping the party up and the party people going. Long before I discovered New York’s Downtown underground or put a needle to a record, I was pulled in by the timeless rhythm. The sounds of the conga, the cowbell and of chanting—the dance and drama of Rumba. Fueled off of the afterglow of the 1960s, it was still in full effect on warm weekend afternoons in the mid 1970s in Central Park.

Playing guitar with the gospel chorus at the High School of Music and Art gave me a kind of religion that didn’t really involve church on Sundays. We would be traveling to gigs and the whole bus would bust into the chorus of Boogie Nights by Heatwave. We were all jamming on the riffs of the day, the bass line from Cocomotion, the guitar and bass parts from Good Times. I didn’t realize it then, but I’d already gone disco.

jonny sender’s tracks

• : : : : : mix for Disuko Netsu #14 by jonny sender
• D - Na Inst Edit by jonny sender
• J Sender DJ mix for Roof.FM by jonny sender
• Congoisim - Asimin Asanoff / Jonny Sender Remix Italiano by jonny sender
• Disco Touch (Missing Shark Remix) - Crowdpleaser & Entlet by jonny sender
• Disco Touch (Illegal Club Dub) - Jonny Sender by jonny sender
• Disco Touch (DJ Dancing Mix) - Jonny Sender by jonny sender
• Disco Touch (BLS '82 Radio Mix) - Jonny Sender by jonny sender
• Jonny Sender - Let Me Feel It (Inst. Ver.) by jonny sender
• Memories Of A Sound by jonny sender