xin
newsletter
about
xin DJs, produces, writes, reads, grows and codes...
they may take the form of a meat wad, pile of trash or smallish person.
2025's WASTED (Appendix.files) is composed of field recordings of waste, composts cultural leftovers into new sonic growths. it is accompanied by essays 'hospicing dance music' and 'unsustainability' which reflect on exhaustion and cultural afterlives.
their 2019 record, MELTS INTO LOVE, was released biodigitally through Subtext Recordings. on it, they sculpt neurofunk, hardcore and dubstep into a caustic, amorphous glob of reese basses and pseudo-breaks.
in 2022-23 they tunneled wormholes through possible worlds and their musics on Aaja Radio.
expect all good things wiggy, drippy and weird.
dance:music
dancefloor somatics, every other month @ ormside projects. djs and movement facilitators on rotation.
press
img credits: Amos Turner
"xin comes at dance music like a demolitionist, not deconstructing it so much as destroying it. These tracks are almost formless, as though boiled down to sludge." (Andrew Ryce, ra)
"It's not often you mistake an ambient artist for Lady Gaga" (Maya-Roisin Slater, ra)
"xin...uses sonic references as the initial scoby in a noxious fermentation...xin’s objective is not to evolve club music further, but rather to assist the growth of something alien in its rot." (Patrick Miller, soulfeeder)
gigs
- 2025
october 1 || dj @ appendix.files || space talk || london
april 6 || dj @ dance:music || ormside projects || london
june 15 || dj @ dance:music || ormside projects || london
- 2024
june 30 || dj @ FICTIONS || ormside projects || london
june 21 || dj || lubber fiend || newcastle
june 7 || dj || cosies || bristol - 2023
july 15 || dj @ RAPTURE || SET woolwich || london
feb 3 || dj @ seraph-fm || ormside || london
jan 1 || dj b2b aya @ TOUGH ACT || white hotel || manchester - 2022
nov 22 || dj @ FIREWORKS II || ormside projects || london
oct 20 || dj @ SCRAM x SELN || ormside projects || london
may 28 || dj b2b aya b2b gigsta b2b minor science @ fictions || sameheads || berlin - 2021
dec 31 || dj b2b YCO @ soup NYE || soup || manchester
- 2020
feb 21 || live @ sonic acts || stedelijk museum || amsterdam
jan 29 || live @ CTM x transmediale || berghain || berlin - 2019
oct 2 || dj b2b aya @ sub liminal || trauma bar und kino || berlin
aug 7 || dj @ fam jam || paloma bar || berlin
june 20 || dj @ chronotopia || romantso || athens june 20 || live @ chronotopia || goethe-institut || athens jun 14 || live @ holly herndon PROTO || volksbuehne || berlin
apr 13 || live @ super hexagon || paloma bar || berlin
mar 31 || live @ the long now || kraftwerk || berlin
mar 31 || dj b2b aya @ the long now (afterparty) || ohm || berlin
mar 23 || live @ suspension || galeria zé dos bois || lisbon feb 10 || dj @ skatehalle || halle am berghain || berlin - 2018
dec 8 || dj @ superfluid || venue mot || london
nov 22 || live @ festival grounded || klub channel zero || ljubljana
nov 2 || live @ kookoo || ohm || berlin
may 24 || dj @ creamcake || säule || berlin
contact
xxxiiinnn at protonmail dot com