Bass, breaks, madness: This is it! You have no choice but to stay on your feet with these weird, wonky, dubbed-out sounds. To control these (mainly low) frequencies, we’ve invited local talents Jezebel and Vanity, alongside Amsterdam’s own ISA W and internationally renowned bass head Yushh.
Tea enthusiast who cultivates a deep love for bass, breaks, dubs, and percussive rhythms - ISA W follows frequencies across genres, drawn to sounds that stir the senses and move the body.
The colour of her sound is deeply connected to her work behind the scenes, both rooted in care, curiosity and community. Over the years, Isabel has been dedicated to making nightlife a safer, more inclusive, and more welcoming place in Amsterdam through initiatives like ClubEthics and as a co-founder of Nightlife Care Network.
As part of the collective Interfering Grounds, she aims at translating this creative and caring energy to spread and promote new sounds, concepts and collaborations to intimate audiences.
Yushh has quickly carved out a distinct space for her weird, wonky sound. Her dubbed-out, atmospheric compositions are unmistakable. Focusing primarily on sound system-indebted low ends and phantasmic melodic details, they give the illusion of comprising infinite layers of sound; no eight-bar mimicking the last as if we’re listening to her experiment in real time.
Since her debut release in 2019, Yushh’s music has found a home on vital UK dance music labels such as Rhythm Section, Wisdom Teeth, Banoffee Pies, All Centre, and Well Street Records.
Her own imprint, Pressure Dome, regularly churns out forward facing and exciting music from both established and emerging artists, as showcased on her residency with infamous Bristol broadcasting station, Noods Radio.
“Ultra-deep, plenty dubby, percussively unpredictable and surprisingly intricate” is how Resident Advisor described her mix for Crack Magazine, a sound that has landed her gigs throughout Europe and beyond, recently including Freerotation, Gottwood festival, and Darwin’s renowned REEF party at Berghain.
Vanity Roxane is a crate digger, rooted in the soul of hip hop and shaped at the edges of the b-boy cypher. Her musical language moves fluidly through bass culture without rigid boundaries, where the Amen Break functions as a shared foundation. It is the same rhythmic principle connecting hip hop, jungle, and drum & bass, carried by sampling and groove.
What defines her approach is a natural translation of a hip-hop foundation into bass music. Not a genre shift, but a continuum: deep grooves, head-nod energy, and carefully built atmospheres rather than hypes. Old and new coexist, tempos shift, but the intention remains the same.
With a strong affinity for labels such as Stones Throw, Deep Medi, Warp, and The North Quarter, her sets unfold as narratives. Each record carries context, each moment space: sometimes floating, sometimes abrasive, always with depth.
This approach has taken her to stages and radio platforms from London to Berlin, with appearances at festivals such as North Sea Jazz and Down The Rabbit Hole, and line-ups alongside Mala, Lenzman, Sherelle, Coco Bryce, Commodo, Mantra, and Kahn & Neek. She is the founder of The FemDem, a platform for Fem+ DJs and producers in electronic music, and a resident DJ at The North Quarter.