New York Night Train SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF January 30, 2010

Sat, Jan. 30: NYC, Glasslands: New York Night Train’s SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF, Glasslands Gallery: 12am– 4am (1am Dance-Off for $100 prize), 21+, $5:

New York Night Train’s most popular party (and contest), the Soul Clap and Dance-Off, which last year broke out of Brooklyn to ping-pong back and forth all over the globe - from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine - from Mexico City to Tel Aviv, makes it’s 2010 New York debut at its Glassland’s Gallery home Saturday. As always, this month’s Soul Clap will feature all-night dancing to the exquisitely dynamic 45rpm ’60s soul magic of New York Night Train soul proprietor DJ MR JONATHAN TOUBIN – plus a 1AM Dance-Off for a $100 grand prize presided over by the lovely MC Laura Leigh.

This week’s contest will be presided over by a distinguished panel of judges consisting of the following pillars of the local community:

- Beverly, co-proprietor of Lower East Sidefashion boutique Fox and Fawn and blogger
- Cowboy Mark, renowned NYC DJ and owner of Greenpoint vintage/antique/genral store Kill Devil Hill
- Doug Pressman, who not only runs Williamsburg’s latest all-vinyl record mecca, The Record Grouch (he IS the record grouch – so watch out contestants!)
- Ms. Pixie 007, the fine go go go dancer behind many a great New York parties and, by day, the yoga instructor to the stars
- Oweinama Biu, who not only DJs all over town but is also a very prolific rock and roll musician (Madame Robot and the Lust Brigade, Les Sans Culottes, etc.)

Doors and dancing start at MIDNIGHT. Feel the feel-good party that keeps on giving long after the holiday season… And don’t forget to hear Mr. Toubin play primarily non-soul music from around 4:30 to 8am at a not-so-secret Williamsburg afterhours…

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Some quotes about the Soul Clap and Dance-Off:

“New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin spins a selection of first-rate funk and soul, largely from the mid-’60s canon, with a dance contest at 1am garnering a chunk of the door proceeds. It’s like Dancing with the Stars, but less crappy!”
- Bruce Tantum, Time Out New York

“The mid-‘60s to early-‘70s r&b and funk will have you dancing with the stars.”
- Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice “Voice Choices”

“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

“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

“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, North Coast Journal

“The chops to make ya hop…. 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!… The makings of a perfect dehydrated Thursday night.”
- Courtney Ferguson, Portland Mercury

SOME PRESS FOR MR. JONATHAN TOUBIN/NY NIGHT TRAIN



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



“New York Night Train’s Jonathan Toubin throws the raddest underground rock parties in New York”

- Alexander Thompson, Paper Magazine



Jonathan Toubin is a local DJ with a penchant for two things: soul obscurities and making people move. He spreads his gospel by way of tireless sets at bars and clubs across the Lower East Side and Brooklyn, at which he’ll host dance-offs, invite artists and other musicians to contribute to the merriment, and spin a heady blend of what he calls “Maximum Rock and Soul.”… Expect even more music, dancing, and rambunctiousness than usual, knowing full well that “the usual” is already pretty hard to top.

- The Onion A.V. Club



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



With his impeccable taste and extensive vinyl collection, Jonathan always seems to know exactly the right track to get bodies moving on the dance floor.

- Bree Dillon, L Magazine



“A shimmy-worthy mix of maximum rock’n’soul”

- New York Post



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

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