Bryan Kasenic (aka Spinoza) is known in the electronic music world for throwing many successful parties, playing adventurous DJ sets, launching an influential newsletter, and starting Beyond, his own booking agency.

Although Spinoza has been playing tons of techno and house lately, he loves all music, and has a past that cannot be pinned down to just one genre. He started DJing in 1996, playing psychedelic soundscapes in chillout rooms and on college radio shows (Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, and New York University). Slowly but surely, he became more obsessed with all forms of dance music, and at this point plays dance music in New York City at least twice a month, mainly at his own Bunker and House-n-Home parties.

Spinoza is also known for his many other roles in the electronic music scene. As a free service to the community, he has been publishing the weekly email newsletter Beyond NYC Events, since 1997. The newsletter has become an influential way to promote interesting under-the-radar electronic music events to a large fan base in New York. In 2001, Kasenic oversaw the booking of all of the promoters at Openair, a DJ lounge in the East Village that quickly gained recognition for its forward-thinking music programming. At Openair, one of the promoters he worked with was Magda, who brought in techno luminaries like Zip, Daniel Bell, and John Tejada to play at her first residency in New York City. From 2000 to 2005, Spinoza helped DJ Olive and Jameson run The Agriculture, a record label dedicated to bringing homegrown laptop dub to the masses.

Spinoza has thrown a ton of parties and weeklies in New York City, including a 5-year stint at Halcyon with the Undercity weekly. He has put most of his energy into The Bunker since January 2003, eventually turning it into the premier techno weekly in North America, which morphed into a bigger monthly party in 2009. In 2005, he started doing all the booking for the Wolf + Lamb space in Williamsburg, helping to almost instantly transform it into the hottest after-hours spot New York City has seen in many years. Spinoza went on to curate and help throw many larger warehouse and loft parties with Wolf + Lamb, proving that the New York City techno scene has a lot more life to it than the boring parties in bottle-service clubs might lead you to believe. In 2008, he founded the House-n-Home loft party series with Anthony Parasole, which quickly became one of the hottest house music parties in New York City.

Kasenic’s latest endeavor is the Beyond Booking Agency. He is helping to build the electronic music scene nationally by booking his friends and allies in other North American cities. His roster includes the Underground Quality crew (DJ Jus-Ed, Black Jazz Consortium, DJ Qu, Levon Vincent, and Anthony Parasole), The Bunker crew (Derek Plaslaiko, Jan Krueger, and Eric Cloutier), Kate Simko, and Insideout.

While Spinoza has played lots of big clubs like Tresor, Twilo, Tunnel, and Vinyl/Arc, he honestly prefers small intimate rooms. He has DJed at big parties in New York for PS1 Warm Up, Resolute, Rhythmism, Madagascar Institute, Chengwin, Soundlab, Multipolyomni (at the Kitchen), Rubulad, Compacent, theDanger, the Lunatarium, and NYC Burningman Decompression. He's also appeared in Seattle (Decibel Festival), Boulder (Communikey Festival), Chicago (Sonotheque), Detroit (Oslo), Philadelphia (Rizumu), Boston, Pittsburgh, and Montreal.