Photos by J ROSARIO
94 VENUE - AMERICAS
ANALOG BKNY NEW YORK, USA AMERICAS
Craig ‘Shorty’ Bernabeu has gone one better with Analog BKNY, not only is it kitted out with his own analogue sound system, SBS Slammer, he also owns half of the club, too. www.mondodr.com
With a glittering history on the international club scene, Craig ‘Shorty’ Bernabeu has designed and installed his own analogue sound systems - formerly Systems By Shorty and now known as SBS Slammer - at venues around the globe. His first sound contract in NYC was at Twilo as the onsite sound tech and engineer. After Twilo he was a sound engineer for Def Mix and Grammy producer DJ David Morales, years later David asked him to redo Stereo in Montreal Canada from top to bottom, a club bought by David Morales. From there, Craig went onto fit Gspot in Shanghai China with a custom hifi Analog SBS Slammer, then Stereolab in Singapore. Over the years though it has always been other people’s clubs that Craig has designed or over hauled, Never his own… until now. But first, let’s travel down memory lane a little. “In the ‘80s, my [now business] partner Michael Bruno aka DAS Bruno and I met and worked in a record store in NYC called Downtown Records on 6th Avenue. It was the best store in the city selling 12-inch records
