DJ Elsieno upcoming events
Bringing together disparate obsessions from dance and music to psychology and traditional community arts practices, Elsie AKA DJ Elsie & The Techno Cèilidh just about wrangles them together with an elastic, rhythmic thread: the contagious flow of collective sensory joy. Nobody really knows where DJ Elsie came from, but legend has it that she emerged from the sea as a lump of granite off the West Coast of Scotland. Having learned piano from a young age, Elsie became hooked on nuanced harmonic-melodic interplay and energizingly intricate polyrhythm. Thanks to her Scottish lineage, Elsie was lucky enough to fling herself into a few cèilidhs as a child, and this sense of collective rhythmic abandon was later recapitulated through falling headfirst into the legendary Leeds-based ‘techno Mecca’ The Orbit during the early 00’s. With this inferno of hyperfocus well and truly cooking on gas, Elsie went on to study electronic music production and learned to DJ before taking a hiatus to raise a rather lovely family and go on a load of random side quests. DJ Elsie takes eclectic inspiration from ravey goodness of yesteryear and mixes these themes with more recent 4/4-and-beyond styles including from newer and lesser-known sub genres. Always with soulful intelligence, steeped in the authenticity of ‘Proper Techno’ and its Detroit origins—yet hopefully not in an ‘up your own arse’ kind of way—Elsie’s DJ sets inevitably send crowds absolutely rabid for more decibels from the entire…
