Function/ Silent Servant/ Anthony Parasole/ Sophia Saze at Output

Born and bred in Brooklyn, David Sumner was brought up on the diverse musical landscape of the New York underground in the 1980's. His influences ranged from the sounds of Kraftwerk, Bambaataa, Man Parrish, Baker Robie, to The Human League, New Order and Depeche Mode. Hooked on electronics, Dave took to the turntables in 1989 at the age of 16 playing early Detroit techno, acid house, house, new wave, electro, and disco. Now more than a decade later, this native son has developed into one of the most internationally respected and influential techno DJ's in the New York scene. Revered for his musical selection, Sumner draws from these earliest of influences to his current unique mix of relentless unforgiving underground techno, keeping the crowd moving on the dance floor while adding an experimental slant sure to please even the most discriminating musical tastes. His uncanny ability to rock the crowd and please the heads both as a DJ and live performer have made him a regular face headlining events and festivals across the US and in 20 countries worldwide alongside some of the world's greatest talent. In addition, he has been booked and held down residencies at all of New York City's top nightspots and parties including Limelight, Twilo, Vinyl, Tronic Treatment, Arc, Sound Factory, Drinkland and Tunnel. David has also been an intricale part of not only the New York/New Jersey Rave scene but the entire US rave scene, headlining some of the nation's biggest events. As a producer and remixer, David has been both critically and publicly acclaimed. Looking back six pseudonyms, nine labels, and thirty-five plus releases later, Sumner's true scope and significance as a major player stand out. His career as a producer began in 1996 with the successful release of his first 12", f(q): The Function of Bandwidth EP for Damon Wild's Synewave label as Function, his best known alter-ego. Since, his music has been appearing regularly on mix compilations, radio show play lists, and charts of many top DJ's like Carl Cox, Sven Vath, Steve Bicknell, Adam Beyer and The Advent, just to name a few. David has gone on to release countless works and started his own imprint and production company, Infrastructure. Infrastructure was designed as a palette to support his own work while including peers like Regis and Ben Sims to do split releases like Inf-06/Symbolism02 and 'The Balance of Power'. In 1998 as DMO, Ulterior Motives, the first release on his own Ctrl. label was played religiously by Body Soul DJ's Danny Krivit and Francois K. and legendary Shelter resident Timmy Regisford (who is currently licensing it for his Shelter Classics label), cementing it's status as a New York house music classic. David is also well-known and respected for his work as the front man of Portion Reform and working closely with Karl O'Connor (Regis) for the UK based, cult techno label, Downwards. Continuing to push techno's outer limits of experimentation, he is the only person outside of Surgeon, Regis, Female and Ian J. Richardson to record for Downwards. David's productions as Richard Harvey (USER01, 02, and 001A) were instrumental towards ushering in a new genre of techno. Released on the USER label, an imprint he co-founded, four of these tracks were licensed by Richie Hawtin for his first Decks, FX, 909 compilation on m_nus/Novamute. His work has also been featured on labels including Theory, Internal, Integrale, and Audio in addition to developing his own imprints Infrastructure, Ctrl., Abuser, Dialect and Annex. He also had a hit with the electro circuit with his N.Y electro 12", VEX, which is revered as a classic by the likes of by Sven Vath, DJ Hell, Adam X and Frankie Bones. David's influence has also stretched to include events. Striving to create a proper showcase for quality techno talent, David has taken the time to produce, book, and coordinate countless events in New York. From one-off parties to his long-running series of Substance events and associations with the legendary Limelight, David Sumner has been instrumental in presenting to the Big Apple some of the World's finest Techno talent. Bi-monthly residencies with Berlin's Tresor club, quarterly exhibitions by Jeff Mills, Surgeon, Green Velvet, and regular appearances by Regis, Ben Sims, Claude Young, Oliver Ho, James Ruskin, Joey Beltram, Juan Atkins, Robert Hood, DJ Hell, Dan Bell, DJ Shufflemaster, Adam Beyer, James Pennington, Steve Bicknell, DJ Pete, Marco Carola, The Advent, Damon Wild, Neil Landstrumm, Billy Nasty, Christian Vogel, Chris Leibing, Mistress Barbara, Christian Smith, Rich Bourque and fellow New York techno stalwarts Frankie Bones, Adam X, and Heather Heart made Substance and Limelight the place to be for techno on the US East Coast. So far 2004 is looking bright for both David and Infrastructure. The latest release is INF-08 Substance vol. 1featuring Function 'Montage' and O/V 'Kes' IanJ. Richardson (Downwards Exclusive) which has already sold out and is receiving critical acclaim. Then in October expect to see INF-09 Substance vol. 2 featuring original tracks and remixes by Oscar Mulero, Christian Wunsch, The 65D Mavericks Olga + Jozef.


SILENT SERVANT aka Juan Mendez, one of the chaps responsible for DOWNWARDS RECORDS, home of Tropic Of Cancer, DVA Damas (aka one of PTP's favorite record labels), brings his dark sounds to the Echo stage for the first time. Behold, the link between early electronic, post-punk, noise and the modern brand of industrial-strength techno and nihilistic industrial music. For fans of Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Front 242, Skinny Puppy...and switchblades.


Anthony Parasole should need no introduction to newer or longer-standing denizens of the New York Deep House and Techno scenes. A longtime employee of halcyon, friend of Levon Vincent and partner in Deconstruct Music, and a prominent figure with the underground house and Techno resurgence of NYC, Anthony’s acute selections won our ears right away, and he hasn’t let go since. Known for the deepest sounds of Techno and House and for gracing multiple dancefloors home and abroad from Shelter to Berghain; and Djing regularly across North America & Europe Anthony has had a breakout year in 2012 with his track "TYSON" featured on the highly acclaimed Fabric 63 mixed by Levon Vincent also the Launch of his new label The Corner which COR-01 "Tri-State" by Dj Qu & Nor'Easter soldout worldwide and just recentlly released "Atlantic Ave" by Anthony Parasole & Phil Moffa to highly criticlly acclaimed reviews on muiltiple online magazines and a slew of productions lined up for 2013!

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Anthony Parasole has had a lifelong love affair with electronic music. Listening to radio shows playing the early dance tracks from New York, Chicago, and Detroit that really perked up his ears. His earliest experiences at the New York clubs and Storm Raves really blew his mind wide open. Not content to just be another party kid, Anthony began scouring the record stores for all of his favorite tracks. From the late-80's to the mid- 90's, Parasole was also huge into hip-hop. His engulfment in this gritty New York street-music is an influence on his style to this day, not only the music but the culture.

2003 to 2007, Anthony was a House and Techno buyer at the Halcyon record store. Through Halcyon, a real pillar of the scene in NYC, Parasole made many contacts, and of course, multiplied the size of his record collection by carefully selecting all the best records from the store. He threw the “New Jack City” party at APT with his co-workers at Halcyon, bringing in The Martinez Brothers for one of there first NYC gigs, Slam Mode, Todd Sines, Brennan Green, and many more. This party really increased Anthony’s exposure in New York, and led to many gigs at bigger clubs including opening slots on dancelfoors like Pacha nyc & Cielo amungst many other venues. He then launched the "Deconstruct Music"record label with his partner Levon Vincent. DEC-01 “Invisible Bitchslap” by Levon Vincent sold out in one week, and immediately put the label on the map and had Hardwax and other influential stores are clamoring for more! Parasole also founded the once famed House-N-Home loft-party series with partner Bryan Kasenic of The Bunker that party left a mark and a blueprint in NYC . Now currently throwing 2 parties one his Boundless series were Anthony invites like minded peers to open the dancefloor to no boundries and his now long running The Club House event with Dj Jus-ED were it's a open table style from open to close with Anthony & Ed creating a deep vibe were the house-dancers sweat all night!!!