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Three Club Nights, One Public Records Weekend
Heavee opens the run, Elisa Batti takes Friday, and Hieroglyphic Being closes Saturday with a deep Chicago-rooted perspective.
The sharpest electronic-music itinerary for Thursday, August 20 through Sunday, August 23 sits inside one Gowanus address. Public Records has club programming on three consecutive nights: Footwork Appreciation Month: Heavee on Thursday, Elisa Batti on Friday, and Hieroglyphic Being on Saturday. Each arrives with a full supporting cast and a different sense of scale, giving the weekend a compact shape: footwork’s restless rhythmic pressure, a DJ-led Friday spread across the building, then a Saturday headliner whose work draws house toward industrial, jazz, and noise. The point is the sequence. Pick one night for a focused entry, or follow all three for a concentrated survey of dance music’s unruly edges.[1][2][3]
Public Records occupies the historic ASPCA headquarters at 233 Butler Street and divides its campus among The Atrium, Sound Room, Cafe Public, UPSTAIRS, and The Nursery. That layout matters on Friday and Saturday, when the club listings place artists across the Sound Room, The Atrium, and UPSTAIRS. For this run, the Sound Room is the anchor: an enclosed room suited to long-form listening as much as simple arrival-and-departure nightlife. The venue’s own calendar gives Thursday’s Heavee event a 10:30 p.m. start, while Friday and Saturday’s club programs begin at 11 p.m.[1]
Thursday: Footwork Appreciation Month opens the run
Thursday begins with Footwork Appreciation Month: Heavee, a bill that puts the genre in the event title and makes the room’s purpose plain. Heavee is joined by Rhino Clark, BEYBLADE SHAWTY, Petal, and Chelsea, making this the week’s broadest entry point into the Public Records run. The multiple-name lineup suggests an evening built around selectors and adjacent voices, with enough personnel to give the night texture before its 10:30 p.m. start. It is also the earliest door time in this three-night cluster, useful for listeners who want the club context while keeping Thursday’s pace manageable.[1]
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Friday: Elisa Batti across three rooms
Friday’s Elisa Batti booking stretches across Sound Room, The Atrium, and UPSTAIRS, with Sarah Wreath, echo, Elle Dee b2b Kellam Matthews, and Mr. Murray also listed. That room-by-room distribution makes Friday the exploratory choice: arrive with time to move through the building and let the individual zones set the pace. Batti’s available catalog includes the 2023 album Seethe, plus releases including Quiver and Yugen (幽玄), offering a concise listening trail for anyone who wants a little context before heading over. The official listing sets the club portion for 11 p.m.[1][3]
Saturday: Hieroglyphic Being brings Chicago’s outer limits
Saturday’s Hieroglyphic Being date is the strongest reason to take the full weekend seriously. Chicago producer Jamal Moss works under the Hieroglyphic Being name and runs Mathematics Records; Ninja Tune describes his music through house and EBM alongside industrial, avant-jazz, and noise. That range gives Saturday a useful tension after Thursday’s footwork focus and Friday’s multiroom flow. Public Records places him in a bill with 30,000AD, Physical Therapy, maenad, and Scott Zacharias, also beginning at 11 p.m. The result is a lineup whose center of gravity comes from a long-running, deliberately rough-edged electronic practice.[1][2]
Plan the three-night route
For the clearest route, start Thursday, August 20 with Heavee in the Sound Room; return Friday, August 21 for Elisa Batti’s three-room program; then make Saturday, August 22 the late-night commitment for Hieroglyphic Being. Public Records is at 233 Butler Street in Brooklyn, with Friday hours listed through 4 a.m. and Saturday hours through 4 a.m. Recheck Public Records’ official calendar and ticket pages for door times, room assignments, tickets, and any changeable information before leaving home.[1]
Sources
- Public Records — Public Records
- Hieroglyphic Being — Ninja Tune
- Elisa Batti — Apple Music