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Best known for his innovative talent-booking at NYC’s wildly successful FUN and Calling All Kids parties, his much blogged about remixes of Professor Murder and Crystal Castles (among others), and his diverse and rousing DJ sets, Eamon Harkin has graced turntables everywhere from warehouse parties and roller discos to skuzzy basements and summer festivals. “In this day in age, with few exceptions, it’s really quite boring to hear the same genre played seamlessly all night,†Harkin muses.
The Derry-born DJ plays a delightful and accessible amalgam of the weird and wonderful which is wide in terms of genre terms but holds steady in aesthetic terms and quality; from campy disco gems, to the austere sounds of early house & techno, set alongside new wave oddities and fresher sounds in those same traditions. He has made cameos at prominent clubs all over the globe: Berlin’s Rio & TAPE (where he makes monthly sojourns and curates nights), Brooklyn’s Studio B (where he produces FUN), Manhattan’s Avalon and South Street Seaport, Paris’ Le Trytique (with Shit Robot) & Paris Paris (DIRTY party), Minneapolis’ First Avenue, Chicago’s Darkroom & Debonair club, the UK's V festival and London’s 333 Club, just to name a few.
After moving to New York in 2004 (via London, via Ireland), Harkin quickly established himself as one of the music scene’s most assiduous promoters. Since then, he has hosted Modular Records’ first US party, started a successful weekly dance night - Calling All Kids with well-regarded DJ Melody Nelson (with guest DJ sets from Wolfmother, CSS, Freeform Five, In Flagranti, Junior Sanchez, James Friedman and The Rakes), played at corporate gigs for Rolling Stone, GQ, the Gen Art Film Festival and Diesel Design Studio, and joined the Crashin’in collective, becoming a regular at their well-known indie party at Williamsburg’s Supreme Trading.
By New Years Eve 2007, Harkin was spinning the main room at Motherfucker, arguably Manhattan’s most famously decadent party -- one could say the Studio 54 of the hipster cognoscenti. By February he had begun DJing, booking, and producing at FUN, a savvy soiree that presented The Rapture on its inaugural night. The party has since gone on to garner awards for “Party of the Year†(L magazine), nominations for the same (Paper, Big Stereo), and a shout-out in New York magazine’s “Best of 2007†issue.
Recent events co-curated by Eamon (with nightlife maven Justine D. and co-resident Rok One of The Bangers) have featured quite a sexy Rolodex: Joakim, Kavinsky, Battles, Chromeo, Afrika Bambaataa, Bonde Do Role, Lady Sovereign, Escort, The Noisettes, Glass Candy, Grandmaster Flash, The Egyptian Lover, Juan Atkins, Metronomy and Patrick Wolf, as well as au courant button pushers Diplo, A-Trak, Girl Talk, The Glimmers, Flosstradamus, Modeselektor and DFA’s Juan MacLean and Tim Sweeney.
Somehow, Harkin also finds time to regularly guest DJ at a plethora of New York hotspots (Nublu, Ruff Club, Robot Rock, Rated X, High Voltage, ISS, Cheeky Bastard, Lotus) and start a new weekly party in 2008 with the legendary Afrika Bambaataa and DJ Lindsey at APT, the mecca of DJs everywhere.
Harkin’s wide-ranging musical taste, always on the tip of the zeitgeist, naturally led him to regular guest spots on East Village Radio and an appearance on Viva Radio & XMU’s IN DEEP show. Several fantastic mixes, can be accessed via his webitse .
- Rachel B. Doyle
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Website - www.eamonharkin.com
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