🌸 recommendations: june 2026 🌸

Jul 13, 2026

hello :) hope we’re all staying as cool as possible 🪭

i’m enjoying some much-needed time at home to recoup, reset and recharge after a pretty busy but incredible june. so much to catch up on to be honest! so many thoughts! but for the last week, my last remaining brain cells post-memori have been taken by love island uk which i finally caught up on and deep in the trenches with now. i’m really happy more people are watching love island these days so i have more people to do character and relationship analysis with. i’m not sure who my favourite couple is to win right now but simba & finley need to leave. lorenzo is my favourite <3 i’m here for jasmine’s chaos 🌪️

my highlight of june was la nature. i get very emotional every time i think about that weekend as it felt so magical and a moment where djing clicked for me. i hadn’t played a festival since 2024 which was the beautifully intimate gathering, floorless festival, which i think had around 300 people attending that year. so going from that to belgium’s la nature after a year of not playing festivals was pretty daunting, to say the least. the week of the gig was riddled with anxiety and very little sleep - every night a different dj nightmare lol. it was a lot. the pressure was on since i was playing the only sunrise moment of the entire festival which also happened to fall on the morning of solstice - gah! la nature is nestled within the forest of a ski resort too and the la chapelle stage is a gorgeous wooden chapel surrounded by these towering trees with the sun rising behind it. so you know, the dream dj slot to play in the dreamiest setting to play it in, no big deal right? i was also playing for one of my favourite labels and friend who i’ve known & worked with for the last five or six years now - maloca records - a big big honour. the maloca records takeover at la chapelle from saturday to sunday afternoon was one of my favourite stage programmes this summer so far, filled with so many precious dancefloor moments & mind-melting sets from the likes of trois-quarts taxi system, piezo & aa sudd, arsenal mikebe (the highlight of the entire weekend, insane energy, a must see if you ever get the chance to!!), andy martin & gavsborg, andy martin solo, yaleesa hall (who played a 100% production mix of tracks that they had made in the last two months, crazy!), darwin, le motel, chewlie, a.brehme, and gazpacho de la mancha - and myself sandwiched between all of that! 🥺

i don’t think i’ve prepped for a set so much in my life. from constantly checking the weather and to see what time the sun came up so i could perfectly time a very specific sunrise track i had in mind. i also wanted to try and bridge between the mystical swamp of darwin and the deep minimal energy of a.brehme whilst making it light, fun and cheeky - channeling the energy of pixies as the forest reminded me of a pixie summer camp plus solstice is all about release & celebration and i wanted to make sure that was shown through the journey as i took the dancers from dark to light.

~ visual moodboard ~

from the response i’ve received it feels like the narrative landed well. i had so much fun playing (after the first four shaky tracks) and seeing the crowd stick with me through the early hours was so beautiful & i’m so grateful for everyone who was there and my support crew who really held me down when i thought i was going to throw up or cry or whilst i screamed in the middle of the dancefloor lol. you can find videos from the set here - i hope to have a recording for you soon. in the meantime, here is my sunrise track <3

some other tracks i loved playing:

the overall festival experience was really nourishing. it felt safe and comfortable enough to wander around on your own, never feeling too busy (the capacity is 3000 but the site is sprawling), and with so many spaces to chill, you could really take the festival at your own pace. the crowd was one of my favourite festival crowd’s yet - so warm & welcoming. made so many friends over the course of the weekend, my cup felt so full. i love partying in belgium for this very reason! each stage was beautifully designed with top tier soundsystems that they each felt like their own little ecosystems - i mostly spent my weekend at la chapelle though hehe. it was by far my favourite. a lot of must-see sets i missed whilst i figure out how to enjoy festivals as a dj when i know that i need to rest well for the looming set but we’re getting there! being able to see katatonic silentio several times over the weekend was a real treat, ghost dubs live was insane, andy martin & gavsborg was perfect for the mid-afternoon heat, and seiva and grove got us very loose on the first night. andy martin’s morning set was so sexy and groovy, i don’t know how that man does it, every single time i am floored! he is my fave right now! i hope i can return to la nature again soon <3 shout out fabien (le motel) and julien for the trust and opportunity to play such a special moment within the festival. eternally grateful 🥹

also went back to paris last month for three days which were as chaotic and messy as they needed to be. shout out mike parker and souzo for the insane live sets at essaim - what a thursday night treat!!! <3

⋆ other bits ⋆

𖦹 we took over a stage at multi multi last month too which was very cute, super grateful for this opportunity and so much love to all of the artists who came & played: ben sleia, c. coiffure and dj wiggles <3

𖦹 osmura co-founder caroune is now hosting the spiralling, naturally show with me and last month was her first show!

𖦹 new mixes for further inward, seed and crescent london

𖦹 upcoming dates:

24th jul - polifonic, italy

26th + 27th jul - outlook festival, tisno - b2b with alicia on the beach stage, b2b beatrice m. on the techspec boat, solo trip hop set on the source and a panel talk ~ shout out rishi : )

30th jul - panel talk at dekmantel festival with shawn reynaldo, gabriel szatan and lauren sohikian

29th aug - rally festival, london

11th september - expert death x untitled 909, ormside projects

12th september - superflat x pwcc, italy

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