This session, Fragile Formats, combines storytelling, archival listening, and live conversation. Natasha will guide the audience through a curated selection of rare Pakistani 45s from the 1960s and 1970s, using music as an entry point into history, identity, and preservation. The conversation will be moderated by TEE EM DEE from Third Floor Sounds. Following the session, wev will take over and close the night with a vinyl DJ set. Fragile Formats unearths the ephemeral history of the Pakistani 45 — a medium that compressed everything from raw, multi-tongued folk and surf-rock grit to high-octane, state-sponsored bangers. This selection navigates a vulnerable sonic archive, reclaiming the avant-garde spirit of a Pakistan that remains largely unheard. Natasha Noorani is a musician, curator, and music historian from Lahore, Pakistan. In 2020, Noorani founded Peshkash, an archival project dedicated to preserving, documenting, and critically engaging with 20th-century Pakistani music. Peshkash functions as a collective research hub and sound library, gathering, maintaining, and curating archival audio and related materials including vinyl records, cassette tapes, VHS, and oral histories. Alongside her research, Noorani is a musician known for blending pop, R&B, electronic, and South Asian influences. Her music sits at the intersection of emotional storytelling and modern, genre-fluid production. Noorani has also curated programming for Coke Studio and the Pakistan Super League, and co-founded the Lahore Music Meet, a festival supporting emerging talent and contemporary musical discourse. Noorani holds an MMus in Ethnomusicology from SOAS. TEE EM DEE is a Brooklyn-based DJ known for warm, groove-driven sets rooted in deep and soulful house. As the founder of Third Floor Sounds, he curates community-driven events that bring together emerging and established DJs, bridging generations of New York’s dance music culture through a shared focus on sound, flow, and the dance floor. wev is a New York-based producer and DJ whose sound is rooted in the DNA of house and garage — inherited not through the dancefloor, but through play. Raised on late 90’s video game soundtracks which reflected the club music of that era, he traced those sounds back to the source and built something native to both worlds: music that moves a club the way a great soundtrack moves through a game. \- Public Records aims to provide a safer space. We reject all forms of discrimination, including racism, misogyny, transphobia, homophobia, sexism, and other aggressive behavior. Consent is paramount. Please exist with respect for yourself and those around you. Anyone found in violation of our rules or safer space policy will be removed from the venue. To share feedback about an incident, please email hello@publicrecords.nyc or alert a member of our team. Tickets may be available at the door based on capacity. A ticket does not guarantee entry; Public Records reserves the right to deny entry to guests that appear intoxicated or do not meet the dress code. All large bags and coats must be checked. Doors close one hour before end time.