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On a Thursday night a year or two before the pandemic, Booker Mitchell was DJing at Nublu, the musician Ilhan Ersahin’s club on Avenue C in Manhattan. Another DJ, Julien Bougennec—Juju—was at Nublu catching up with some older friends. When Booker stepped outside for a cigarette, he asked Juju to cover the decks, and in the conversation that followed, the two lifelong New Yorkers found they had a lot in common: both loved collecting records and shared an appreciation for music genres from all over the world.
Booker and Juju recall this origin story on a quiet summer morning in Dumbo. The light is gentle in the loft space on Bridge Street where Booker builds custom-made hi-fi speakers, privileging vintage parts. The loft is the official home of Bridge Street Sound, the project the two 25-year-olds are launching this September. Downstairs, apart from the workshop space, a set of white speakers sits in the corner of an otherwise empty room like an altar. And upstairs, a cozy listening area is lined with records, tools, and mementos—a visual representation of the aesthetic Booker and Juju want to reproduce through Bridge Street Sound’s events, sound systems, playlists, and more. United by their eclectic musical tastes and a love of parties and footy—football, in the European sense—the two envision the project as a home for a particular sensibility: a blend of “sound, music, and culture.”
“It’s that groove that you feel in your chest,” Juju chimes in. “Wanting to make people dance, but also taking sauce and flavor from everywhere.”
“We have a sonic aesthetic,” Booker adds, that the duo wants to bring to venues of all stripes: “from nightlife to public schools, music events, programming.”
This shared dream of a unified sound began early, maybe back when Booker,…
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