New York Record Club · Online Workshop

You can read a room.

Now make the tracks you wish existed.

Four sessions. One finished edit. Yours to play out.

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4 live sessions over Zoom · Space is limited

The Gap

The gap between DJing and producing is smaller than you think.

You know what works on a dancefloor.

You already know what it should sound like. Now learn how to make it.

The Workshop

Stop waiting for the perfect remix.

Make it yourself.

Make Your Own Edit is a 4-week live workshop for DJs ready to step into production — starting with the track you already love.

SESSION 01

Building The Groove

The groove is the thing people feel before they can name it. We break it down into its parts — the kick, the bass, the hi-hat, the space between them — and show you how to build it deliberately into your edit from the ground up.

SESSION 02

Crafting The Hook

The hook is the part you can't stop humming. It's the reason people come back to a record. We break down what makes that moment addictive — and show you how to find it, amplify it, and make it the thing your edit is built around.

SESSION 03

Shaping The Arrangement

DJs think in transitions. This session teaches you to arrange your edit the same way — building tension, controlling the peak, and shaping an edit that does what a great edit should: build, peak, and release.

SESSION 04

Bouncing The Track

Bouncing is where the edit stops being a project and becomes a file. We walk through the finishing essentials — EQ, compression, limiting — and show you how to export something worth testing.

The Instructor

JP's first job after high school was at the iconic Satellite Records in SoHo. Coming up in the era of the marathon set, he was surrounded by the architects of the New York sound: François K, Masters At Work, Danny Tenaglia, Kevin Saunderson, and Armand Van Helden.

For the past three years, he has led the regular Ableton Workshop series at Nowadays. He has also served as a session engineer for dance music icons Louie Vega, Barbara Tucker, and Robert Hood, and worked on major film scores for Spike Lee and Mark Ronson.

After being prodded by his mentors to share his knowledge, JP co-founded Dubspot, the first Ableton Certified Training Center in North America. He later built TPA Studios, an incubator for NYC talent equipped with a Funktion-One system and LED dancefloor. It was here — where DJing and production were taught as a single, fluid craft — that the budding NYC duo Musclecars held their first-ever livestream.

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