SOR:
ISSUE ONE

PUBLICATION #2

JANUARY 2024 -
DECEMBER 2024

FEATURING: 
JAVI SUH, WTCHCRFT, KYRUH, DAKOTA VELASQUEZ, JUSTIN SANTANA, ASHE KILBOURNE, VANYA SUCHAN, AARYA KINI, ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, ROSIE ARMAO, ERIC CHUNG, ARVIN T., NOUR KHALIL, DJ VOICES, DJ DAR, DJ INFOHAZARD, X3BUTTERFLY, KATIE REX, AND MORE!

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EDITORS LETTER:

Dear Reader,

I have danced and seen beauty, too. So have you. And we’ve been freed— seen bliss and the utopia built with it, seen that utopia lost. We’ve cried in the club and seen ourselves in a crowd among many. One body. A collective, pulsing recognition: I feel this all, too. Systems of Release [S.O.R] is our record of that one body and its many iterations; a printed, curatorial archive that aims to document present-day New York’s electronic music ecosystem. Ravers and raves, renegades, clubs, collectives, nightlife labor, bouncers, bathroom doors, politics, humanity, and the music which takes us there. The world is in a state of excess digitization and that’s why print is the most appropriate way to record it all. Printed material interacts with the senses as the dance floor does beneath our swaying feet. 

Our 25 page promotional zine, released in winter of 2023, was only a snippet of the cataloging range we want to do. Now, the Systems of Release team eagerly presents you with an official full length chronicle of who, what, when and why you had to be there… Electronic music is a flourishing scene, especially now, and a community that is more than 40 years old. This is our experience of New York City’s slice of electronica and the people and places that hold it – making it so.

It can't go without immense gratitude to those who have been key components to this project. A deep thanks to the close, enthusiastic team who documented, created and designed all these pages. Thank you to all the contributors. Thank you to DJs, artists, and music producers who sat with us and had intimate conversations. A thank you to nightlife labor, the reason this whole system we love functions. To our visual and audio engineers, making our events and promotional content run smoothly. And thanks to you, the readers, friends, and supporters of SOR, since this whole idea was scribbled on a whiteboard and a lonely discord. My co-founder, Cooper and I forged this idea out of our mutual obsession with this ecosystem; this system of release. We’d come home every weekend feeling pride in our blistering, sore feet.

Here are our SORes.