For over 30 years, Martin Bisi has recorded music from his studio in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood. After a chance New York encounter, the studio was founded with money from Brian Eno, who subsequently worked on the album On Land there.

Working with Bill Laswell and the band Material, Bisi recorded Herbie Hancock’s hit Rockit in this underground space. This was the first mainstream, popular song to feature a DJ and a turntable, utilizing “scratching”. Following that success, Bisi worked with many other influential musicians there, including Sonic Youth, Swans, Angels of Light, John Zorn, Foetus and the Dresden Dolls. He has recorded across many genres, from experimental music, to hip hop and indie rock in the old factory building by the contaminated Gowanus Canal.

However, the future of the recording studio is in question as it is squeezed in by the encroaching gentrification of the neighborhood. A new, massive Whole Foods supermarket across the street is the latest addition to this once out-of-the-way area, that Bisi fears will increase property values to the point of pushing out long-time renters and artists like himself.

The documentary includes interviews with musicians such as Michael Gira of Swans, Brian Viglione of the Dresden Dolls, Bob Bert, who played on Sonic Youth’s Bad Moon Rising, Bill Laswell of Material, JG Thirlwell aka Foetus, Michael Holman of Gray (with Jean-Michel Basquiat) and creator of famed 1984 hip-hop TV pilot Graffiti Rock.

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Troubas Kater
Bern

Another Me
CH

Freddy
Bern

Kame
Zürich

Dibbasey
Zürich

Diselecta Energy
CH / Gambia

Yellow Eyes
New York

Norn
Reykjavik

Curse All Kings
Berlin

Rattenburcht
Amsterdam

Völva
Malmö

Morbyda
Leipzig

Die Klar
Paris

Galopp
Basel

1luu
Bern

Civic3mille
Bern

Lektra
Bern

DLR
Bristol

MC GUSTO
Bristol

NICKY F
Bern

Konfront.Audio
Bern

Badboy MC
Bern

Hotel Samar
CH

OG Florin
CH

Audrey Danza
Geneva

Spekki Webu
Delft

Rhodia
Bern

Kwam.E
Hamburg

Lucia Lu
Berlin

Lisa More
Marseillie

Garancina
Lausanne

Mo pepe b2b Grise
Bern/Lausanne

Teuterekordz
Berlin

Saharaa
Bern

Dibbasey
Zürich

Butterflyca
Bern

Schwule Mädchen
Luzern

Kumari b2b Dolce b
Luzern

Rakkas
Bern

Folge der Wolke
München

Antifabi
Bern

Zilla b2b Apostat
Bern

Shazalakazoo
Berlgrad/Berlin

DJ Emina
CH

DJ Balkan Selzer
Bern

Team Scheisse
Bremen

Omni Selassi
Bern/Leipzig

Hyper Gal
Osaka

Mal Élevé
Berlin

Osy
DE

MULATU ASTATKE
Jimma

Pöbel MC
Berlin