X-Coast plays a hometown Saturday at Elsewhere

The Brooklyn-based Riviera Records founder headlines Elsewhere this Saturday, Nov. 14, with 6 SENSE and K.ONE; tickets are $35.

Some of the best nights in Brooklyn are the ones where a local who has been playing clubs around the world comes home and gets the room to himself. That is what Saturday looks like at Elsewhere: X-Coast headlines on Saturday, Nov. 14, with 6 SENSE and K.ONE on the bill.

The show was announced Nov. 2 and is listed for a 10:30 p.m. start, so plan for a late one. Tickets are $35 through DICE. With less than a week between this post and the night itself, this is a decide-today kind of booking.

X-Coast is the alias of Bojan Cizmic, a Serbian-born DJ and producer based in Brooklyn and the founder of the label Riviera Records, as Forte Magazine and his Resident Advisor profile lay out. His best-known production is the self-released single "Mango Bay," which has piled up millions of streams and is the track most people will recognize when it comes on.

The appeal is range. Promoters and writers keep landing on the same description: a producer channeling the spirit of '90s rave who moves between techno, drum & bass and house without making the switches feel like gear changes. That is the kind of DJ who suits a Saturday at Elsewhere, where the crowd tends to stay for the whole night if the selector gives them a reason.

The recent catalog has kept him in the conversation. DJ Mag reviewed The Riviera Collection, released Nov. 8, 2024, and Mixmag has covered his remix work, including his take on DJ Gigola's "La Batteria." He has also turned up on club bills from Toronto to London to Bali, including a Halloween special at XOYO and a Club Corazon night, which is part of why a hometown headline date carries a little extra weight.

A hometown headline is where a touring DJ gets to play to the people who knew the records first.

Elsewhere is a good fit for that. It is a multi-room Bushwick venue built around dance music, big enough to feel like an event and set up so a headliner can stretch out rather than squeeze into a tight festival slot. On a night like this the long set is the point: room to start deep, wander through breakbeats and jungle, and end somewhere euphoric.

Don't skip the support. 6 SENSE and K.ONE are on before the headliner, and the warm-up at a club night is often where the best surprises of the evening happen, especially in a room that rewards getting there before it is packed.

The practical bit: it starts at 10:30, so eat first, take the train, and bring something warm for the walk home, because mid-November in Bushwick at 4 a.m. is not forgiving. Then let the guy from the neighborhood show you what he has been playing everywhere else.

Sources: JamBase: X-Coast at Elsewhere (jambase.com); DICE tickets (link.dice.fm); Forte Magazine: X-Coast (fortemagazine.com.au); Resident Advisor: X-Coast (ra.co); DJ Mag: X-Coast - The Riviera Collection (djmag.com); Mixmag: X-Coast (mixmagde.com); RA: XOYO Halloween Special: X-Coast (ra.co); RA: Club Corazon presents X-Coast (ra.co); The Beat Bali: X-Coast at Club Corazon (thebeatbali.com); RA: High Tide x ST presents X-Coast (Toronto) (ra.co)