Brooklyn-based DJ/producer ILLEXXANDRA (https://illexxandra.com) brings a consistently fun party vibe, drawing from the worlds of global bass, soundsystem culture, future sounds, funk, and classic club styles. Her sets draw you in with innocent joy, hype you up with raw ferocity, and then set you down gently with deep musical knowledge. She’ll kill it with an hour of bangers, or take you on a five-hour journey into sound.
Festival bookings include Outlook Festival (Croatia), Boomtown Fair (UK), Nyege Nyege Festival (Uganda), Tribal Gathering (Panama), Song & Surf Music Festival (Canada), Oregon Eclipse Gathering, Priceless Festival, SXSW, Emissions Festival, BigFoot Electro, Gathering of the Vibes, Mysteryland, Long Beach Funk Festival, Gratitude Migration, Bombadillo Festival, Return to Roots, and the ISA World Surfing Games in Costa Rica. She has DJ’d in the NYC Dance Parade, Coney Island Mermaid Parade, and NYC Halloween Parade. In 2016 and 2017, she joined the NYC Pride March as the DJ on the lead Stonewall float. 2024 upcoming festival dates include Electric Forest, Applecross Festival, Dub Stuy’s Soundscape Festival, and Future Forest in Canada.
Illexxandra features on Hospital Records’ 2020 compilation Med School Graduation. Other recent releases include a collab with TGRbass on Diffrent Music, collabs Mr Jennings on Wormhole Music Group and ShadowTrix Music, Evil Aria on MalLabel’s Space Opera EP, solo EP Out The Shadows and collab EP Bass Arithmetic (with DJ Shakey) via Producer Dojo, Black Marble Collective’s RAVETOOLS and RAVETOOLS 2 compilations, District 160’s Breathe compilation, remixes for Chomba Boom and Moldover, and a beat for queer UK hip-hop duo Graver Ekow. She has also released tracks and remixes with Stay Tropical, Party Time Society, Sony Red, Rot10 Muzik, Club Popozuda, Peligrosa, Boogie Boutique, Cast-A-Blast Records/Mishkin, Aceyalone, MC Zulu, Little Giants (EVeryman + Pumpkin), Feral aka MC Kinky, Jon Kwest, Kuenta i Tambu, Gato Preto, DJ Tack & DJ Tamalero, and Jaymay, and numerous cult-classic bootlegs. Her tracks were named best track of 2011 by TropicalBass.com, one of 2011’s Most Underrated Music by Marcus Dowling, and featured on BBC Radio 1. She has released mixtapes with Sublimate Records, Footwork Jungle, MalLabel, Musica Nomada, CouchFest, Afropop Worldwide, Brooklyn Radio, Space Cowboys RIPEcast, the Armory Podcast, Brousse FM, Homoground, RVA Magazine, and Zappos’ The Ones sneaker lifestyle site.
ILLEXXANDRA co-founded the global bass crew Tropic of Bass in Washington, DC. She was resident DJ at Vitamin B, New York long-running breakbeat party, and at the McKittrick Hotel with Inyang Bassey and the all-star Heathens band. Illexxandra is one half of the production duo Empire Breaks with DJ Shakey, and one half of Ajazent with TGRbass. She is a resident of the infamous and infamous Rubulad party, an enthusiastic co-conspirator with the Party Liberation Front (PLF) in Richmond, VA, and a long-time DJ and production staff at Burning Man Information Radio.
ILLEXXANDRA plays for LGBTQ advocacy events, most recently at the Aqua Girl Festival in Miami Beach, the Southern Comfort Conference in South Florida, the Brooklyn Museum’s LGBTQ Teen Night, Heritage of Pride/NYC Pride March awards ceremony, Honest Accomplice Theatre’s fundraiser for their Trans Literacy Project, the IHI Therapy Center Masquerade Ball Fundraiser, a mixer for SAGE which provides services for LGBTQ elders, and the Stonewall Community Development Corporation which facilitates housing for LGBTQ seniors. She plays for women-focused and queer-focused events, including the Brooklyn Museum’s First Saturdays Pride event, Everybooty, Bad Habit, and BAE in Brooklyn, Hot Rabbit in Manhattan, the Embassy Row Hotel during the DC Pride March, the Sister Collective, and the Athena Collective. She plays for sex-positive events such as Wonderland NYC, Pleasure Garden Club in Philly, the Museum of Sex as a resident disco DJ for their 2016-2017 disco exhibit, and as an ongoing resident DJ for Chemistry NYC. She has taught music production at the Lower Eastside Girls Club, and coached bands at the Willie Mae Rock Camp For Girls.
ILLEXXANDRA has played all over Burning Man, including the coliseum at Root Society, Camp Questionmark, Ashram Galactica, Funky Town, Dustfish, Basshenge, PEX, Kostume Kult, Disorient, Nexus, Burners Without Borders, Plug 4, Dirty Beetles/Black 22s, Black Rock Boutique, Gender Blender, Tsunami Bass Experience, Pedal Bump, and Brulee, as well as the arts cars Charlie the Unicorn, the Janky Barge, Icarus, Abraxas, the Bump Bed, A Cavallo, the Dodo, and the Nautilus. She has played prominent sets at regional Burning Man-related events including Transformus, PEX Summer Festival, Catharsis on the Mall, Love Burn, Playa del Fuego, Frostburn, Freeform Festival, Decompression in NYC/Chicago/London, and Figment NYC and DC.
