Big one incoming as we welcome Salon des Amateurs resident and one of the scenes most revered DJs. Lena Willikens has carved her own path, as the electronic music world chases bigger BPMs and harder techno she has been the figure head of the off-kilter, down tempo, darker side of the dance floor.

‘A DJ’s DJ’ by virtue of her endless versatility and word of mouth adoration. Playing no two sets the same, Lena’s variation is the tip of an iceberg-like record collection amassed over decades and constantly renewed via daily practice of listening, joining the dots, and nurturing an ever-growing worldview of dance-floor possibility.

Her craft is akin to an improvising musician, painter, or skilled raconteur in the most classic DJ sense. Layering extended lines of thought that can only be properly understood in-the-flow - by bodies in motion - Lena places a lifetime immersed in the club, on all sides of booth, bar and dance-floor, in an effortless form of chronics edging on mysticism.

Her career arc from ‘90s raver, to rinsing records (and glasses) at Salon Des Amateurs, to racking up air miles as global DJ, holding down the Homunkuli radio show for NTS, and concurrently producing, remixing, compiling records, all feed into one another with unparalleled results. Warm up from Fenix residents