Expanding on their track record of throwing dance -music events in singular spaces around Los Angeles, dance music event promoter Stranger Than has announced it will soon host a series of shows in a repurposed supermarket. The space will serve as a temporary venue for a four-month run of shows happening September through December, with the lineup thus far featuring parties by Boiler, Carl Craig and Moodymann performing as Detroit Love, Floating Points, Orbital, Luciano, Nico Moreno, Adam Ten and Mita Gami, an afterparty for the Mayan Warrior crew’s Oct. 26 show, a Daytime Warriors party and an event from the Pizzaslime collective.
Additional programming will be announced in the coming weeks. The space, a former California Market in Koreatown, can hold between 1,200 to 3,200 attendees and has also hosted traveling exhibitions. Called The Supermrkt, the venue was soft-launched as a dance space this past May with a 14-hour set from Gordo that started at 6 a.
m. and ended at 8 p.m.
, with organizers planning to continue these daytime hours for some of its upcoming shows. Daytime shows will capitalize on the building’s unique architecture and natural lighting effects courtesy of the sun, while also offering a workaround to the city’s often truncated club hours. “With L.
A.’s time restrictions, it’s really become the city of daytime parties,” Stranger Than founder Tal Ohana tells Billboard . “In the dance music world especially, we find it’s hard for attendees, DJs a.