ALLEYCAT MUSIC CLUB:
POWERHAUS
POWER HAÜS is a monthly house and techno night held every second Saturday in Atlanta. Each edition is curated by a single DJ playing open-to-close, bringing the focus back to long-form pacing and a coherent arc across the full night.
The series hosts a rotating mix of local and international guests, with the emphasis on selection, restraint and continuity rather than quick changeovers.
Power Haüs takes place at 404.exe (formerly MJQ Concourse), a subterranean room beneath a parking lot on Ponce de Leon Ave—one of Atlanta’s most distinctive spaces, built for dark, late-night sessions.
11pm | 404.exe (736 Ponce De Leon Ave NE) | 21+ | Limited pre-sale tickets
For more than three decades, Tripwire has DJed professionally across over 200 cities
worldwide, moving through basements, warehouses, afterhours rooms, and clubs that don’t
market because they don’t need to. He was a long-standing regular guest at London’s Fabric for
18 years, brought back not by obligation but by necessity. He continues to mark 13 years at
Flash DC and an almost confrontational 23-year residency at Vancouver’s Gorgomish
Afterhours—a room where stamina replaces spectacle and the unprepared are quietly filtered
out.
His sound exists beyond classification. As the Canadian Ambassador of all sounds
underground, Tripwire draws from minimal structures, raw pressure, and long-form hypnosis
rather than genre boundaries. Every record is built with analog synthesizers and drum
machines, machines chosen for their instability as much as their tone. Drift is allowed. Errors
are preserved. In the booth, it’s vinyl or uncompressed WAV files on CDJs—no sync, no
recordbox, no laptops- no safety rails. His extended sets are infamous exercises in patience and
control, moving from the freshest unreleased material to obscure vintage bombs that feel less
curated than recovered.
Beyond the dancefloor, Tripwire’s presence is unavoidable. He has appeared on every major
podcast in the underground, and his documented trail includes over 300 interviews, reviews,
and articles, mapping a career that never slowed long enough to become mythology. Operating
under aliases including Jay Tripwire, Mr_Barcode, and others, he has released an astonishing
426 vinyl records, earning 68 number-one chart positions, numbers that stop sounding
impressive and start sounding diagnostic.
Against all logic, the machine is still running. Averaging 15 releases a year, Tripwire recently
delivered six consecutive number-one records, proving that obsession, when sustained long
enough, outlives fashion.
This is not a legacy act.
This is sustained pressure.
The underground, still breathing