New Jersey Soul Clap And Dance-off October 29, 2009

The NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN SOUL CLAP AND DANCE-OFF, not one of the NYC underground’s more popular monthly nightlife institutions, growing this year to around the globe everywhere from Mexico City to Tel Aviv, hits New Jersey for the first time tonight at legendary rock venue Maxwell’s. As always, the Soul Clap will feature ALL NIGHT DANCING to wild 45 rpm magic of subterranean maximum rock and soul DJ MR JONATHAN TOUBIN as well as a MIDNIGHT DANCE CONTEST for a $100 GRAND PRIZE. Tonight’s contest will include a unique panel of judges consisting of BOB BERT ( 5 Dollar Priest, ex-Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore, editor: BB Gun fanzine), IVAN SUNSHINE (Preacher and the Knife, Ghost Exits, ex-Vietnam and Love As Laughter), MARGARET BROWN (director: Order of Myths and Townes Van Zandt bio-pic Be Here to Love Me), MICHELLE CABLE (Head of Panache Booking empire), and TERRE T (DJ and host of WFMU’s Cherry Blossom Clinic).

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SOME PRESS for the SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF

I remember the first time I walked into one of DJ Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off parties at Glasslands Gallery. Wiggly mamas were shaking their manes and hitting the splits, gangly boys were swinging from the balcony, and the two dance contest finalists, having already ripped their shirts off, were vibe-a-ratin’ like washing machines in the middle of a cheering crowd. And the music, man! I was getting hit by squall after squall of screaming, crackling soul tracks, some pitched so fast that I hardly knew how to move to them – so I did like everyone else and just let the music jerk my body around, flailing with the breathless abandon of a toddler. I’m a big fan of sixties soul music, but every song was new to me, each so raw and greasy and BIG and palpable that they had me scrunching my nose up and torquing my neck in this ecstatic frenzy. Now, I make a point of seeking out those rowdy shows and crazy parties that leave you sweat-soaked and grinning uncontrollably, but I’ve been hard-pressed to find anything that can top the roaring bliss of a New York Night Train Soul Clap.
- Erin Sheehy, Jezebel Music.com

DJ Jonathan Toubin, from underground music zine (and label of the same name) New York Night Train, spins the 45s. The mid-‘60s to early-‘70s r&b and funk will have you dancing with the stars.
- Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice “Voice Choices”

Even thought Toubin isn’t entirely unique in using only 45s, his skill at transitioning one song into another (“segueways”) is seamless, and his depth and range of choice songs, primarily from the mid-1960s, are far from the mainstream yet extremely danceable.
- Mark Shikuma, from “Dust on Vinyl” feature in the North Coast Journal

As previously noted in this here reputable rag, Jonathan Toubin’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off shindig is truly New York City’s most stimulating all-night dance party, easily trumping all other soul or retro nights.
- MyOpenBar.com

“An eve of 45-rpm soul sizzlin’ and expressive dance.”
- Lina Lecaro, LA Weekly

“It was ridiculous and fun and had me hoping Soul Clap returns on a weekend some day, so our city of fabulous freaks and music geeks can strut for cash without having to watch the clock.”
- Jennifer Maerz, SF Weekly

“Soultastic!”
- Courtney Ferguson, Portland Mercury

SOME PRESS FOR MR. JONATHAN TOUBIN

I’m not one of the Schmucks who will lament over New York not being “what it used to be”, but I will say that we’re not fans of this dismal wasteland of Eurotrash tourists and guidos with polo shirts unbuttoned down to their navels grinding to the repetitive pounding of bad electro… Enter Jonathan Toubin, and his simple-yet-visionary approach to revamping the entire lanscape of New York and Brooklyn from midnight till the after hours. His New York Night Train parties have become stuff of sheer legend do to the simple fact that Toubin actually seems to care about what he is producing. His meticulous approach has paid off quite handsomely as pretty much each and every party with the Jonathan Toubin stamp on it seems to be the biggest party going on for that given night.
- Impose magazine

New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin has solidified his reputation as the premier soul party engineer and the hardest working guy in New York with packed parties at underground venues.
- Jason Diamond, Heeb magazine

Jonathan Toubin, the New York City DJ who turns ho-hum rock shows and tin-canned dance parties into transcendent nightlife experiences. Spinning rock and soul on 45, Toubin gets the rock kids to dance and the clubbers to rock, meshing together live music, performance, film and dance, dance, dance!
- Megan O’Neil, Detroit Metro Times

Our festival experience began with an oh-so-soulful DJ set by New York genius Jonathan Toubin.
- Josiah Hughes, Exclaim review of Calgary’s Sled Island Festival

But by the end of the night, I got Toubin’s joke: He and Svenonius know how to make people freak out. I mean really lose it. They can access a primal human circuitry that somehow prefigured the advent of 1960s boogaloo, international freakbeat and garage rock. All that “nntzuh-nntzuh” Euro syncopation, all that New Order, even ol’ Marr and Morrissey, were little queefs of ozone compared to the voltage that these two have amassed over years of rummaging through record bins. They’ve learned how to incite a kind of bond breaking, a freedom claiming, in young psyches.
- Justin Richards, New York Press

Hey man, I get it. I don’t know what foul hell fire stokes your engines but this is good work you are doing. In this stale city that makes even the richest poor, and the poorest gone; in the shadows of the newly birthed and vacant luxury condominiums that rise around us, in the crush of drunken NYU students hiking up their skirts to piss in the gutter and belligerent senior account executives furious that people are having fun downstairs from their loft-style 300sqft railroad apartments, we need this sound you’re summoning up—this primal music howling out the past like the voice of everything that needs saying. We need it and we’ll take it on every night that you’ll bring it…
- Monty Shanks, Cheap and Plastique

upcoming night training:

- Fri, Oct 30: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down: New York Night Train 4th Anniversary/Bon Voyage Party w/Mr. JT and friends
- Sun, Nov 1: New Orleans, Mr Jonathan Toubin post
-Voodoo Fest action at The Pearl
- Weds, Nov 4: Houston, TX Soul Clap and Dance-Off Mango’s w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Fri , Nov 6: Austin, TX Fun Fun Fun Fest official pre-party
- Sat Nov 7: Austin, Fun Fun Fun Fest, Club Deville Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius and Brownout! live
- Wed, Nov 11: San Diego, Bar Pink, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius
- Thur, Nov 12: Los Angeles, Spaceland, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius
- Fri, Nov 13: San Francisco, 111 Minna, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius, Paul Paul and guest DJs Primo and Jello Biafra
- Sat, Nov 14: Oakland, Uptown, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin and Ian Svenonius
- Sun, Nov 15: Arcata, Arcata Theater, Soul Clap and Dance
-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin
- Tue, Nov 17: Portland, Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Mr Jonathan Toubin
- Fri, Nov 20: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Sat, Nov. 21 (early): Brooklyn, Knitting Factory: Blowfly at Knitting Factory w/DJ Mr. JT
- Sat, Nov 21 (late): Brooklyn, Glasslands: Soul Clap and Dance-Off, Glasslands Gallery
- Weds, Nov 25: NYC, Motor City: New York Night Train Weds w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Thur, Nov 26: Brooklyn, Enid’s: Annual NY Night Train Thanksgiving
- Fri, Nov 27: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Weds, Dec 2: NYC, Motor City: New York Night Train Weds w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Fri, Dec 4: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Sat, Dec 5: Brooklyn, special Red Hook holiday jam TBA
- Weds, Dec 9: NYC, Motor City: New York Night Train Weds w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Thu, Dec 10: Portland, Maine: Soul Clap and Dance-Off
- Fri, Dec 11: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Sat, Dec 12: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Soul Clap and Dance
-Off
- Weds, Dec 16: NYC, Motor City: New York Night Train Weds w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Thu, Dec, 17: Brooklyn: Live With Animals, Jewish Christmas w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin, Golden Triangle, y mas
- Fri, Dec 18: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Weds, Dec 23: NYC, Motor City: New York Night Train Weds w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Thu, Dec 24: NYC, Motor City: NY Night Train Christmas
- Fri, Dec 25: NYC, Home Sweet Home: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Sat, Dec.26: NYC, Glasslands: Special Holiday Soul Clap and Dance-Off
- Weds, Dec 30: NYC, Motor City: New York Night Train Weds w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
- Thu, Dec 31: NYC, Motor City: NY Night Train 3rd Annual New Years til way past dawn
- Fri, Jan 1: NYC, Home Sweet Home: New Years Day Slow Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin
- Sat, Jan 2: Brooklyn Museum hosts Mr Jonathan Toubin

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