The Bunker presents: No Way Back Nonstop

What began as a now-legendary 12-hour party with a leaky roof in Detroit in 2007 returns for its 13th edition in New York. This year The Bunker presents No Way Back expands to a full 24 hours, from 11:59 PM Saturday until 11:59 PM Sunday, taking over Nowadays for a special edition of Nowadays Nonstop.

No Way Back residents BMG, Bryan Kasenic, Carlos Souffront, Derek Plaslaiko, Erika, Mike Servito, Patrick Russell and Scott Zacharias will play extended sets that flow into one another, forming a continuous 24-hour journey with the narrative told from many angles. We’ll of course have a full venue transformation by Amber Gillen and the Infinite Dimensions crew.

This is an eternal concept, we didn’t invent this, and the people who may think they did didn’t either, this is our cultural heritage from a time before history. It has taken many forms from dancing around the fire at a coming of age ceremony, imbibing soma, to losing it on the dance floor of a parking garage to Larry Levan, or in some secret warehouse room under the actual road to the feverish sound of Ron Hardy, or climbing up those stairs to Heaven and seeing Miss Heaven 1 and Miss Heaven 2 jacking on top of the speakers to Ken Collier. We recognize where this music comes from, its original Black, Trans, Queer and Latinx roots, and the serious library of advanced technological thoughts that came from their ecstatic music. Detroit Techno was inevitable when you think about it.

This is our generation picking up those