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