For the Record is a conversation series where we speak with all manner of music heads — DJs, music journos, indie label captains, record shop owners, listening bar kingpins, et al — about their stories + the music that makes them. Lauren is the Marketing Manager and a resident DJ at the Brooklyn club, Good Room.

MUSIC MENTIONS

First record

Happy House by The Juan MacClean

Dance Music

Human Head Records ($2 bins)
The Good Room
Joy & The Loft (disco parties)
Lauren Gilet + Laura Morín: L&L(&L) Record Club
Love Games (her party happening on Wednesdays)
Wayne Harriett
Prince Language
JD Sampson from Le Tigre
Finn Jones (co-host of Love Games)
Party Dad

Music Community Shoutouts

Sydney music community at large, especially promoters:
Picnic
Mad Racket
Astral People

Three Important Artists (past year)

Amy Douglas
Eachother (Justin Strauss & Max Pask)
Dee Diggs

Most under-appreciated group during favorite musical era

1976-1984
The Montreal duo, Lime

Desert Island Discs

Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon love
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
ICEHOUSE (fka Flowers) - Icehouse

Who should be on For the Record?

Ben Steidel (Lemonade) + Brooklyn Record Exchange