yaeji takeover

Earlier I briefly mentioned my collaborative project “With”. This project was founded by me and my friend Joe when we both started DJing. We both had the mutual interest of synesthesia/sensory experiences and found the subject of intimacy and solitude very intriguing...

Davis and I have this special tradition of making personal birthday gifts for each other. I would make a visual poster for one of his tracks and he would produce a track for one of my visual artworks. A couple years ago he made this track for a project I made that was a 60-ft long hand-sewn moss carpet hung from the top of a spiral staircase...

Mall Grab sent me this track a while back when I first moved back to New York. That weekend my friends were visiting and we went to Palisades for the first time. I remember standing right in front of the sub, being blown away by the vibration, sweaty walls, and crazy energy - it was quite overwhelming but in the most magical way...

Ali Berger has been at Katoi, a northern Thai eatery in Detroit, for the past year. He’s since then helped develop a music program there, booking DJs and playing records every Tuesday. Ali’s music is super danceable but has a weirdness to it that makes it really unique...

I live with Abbi Press who’s an amazing producer and singer. I met her while I was in college when she was briefly visiting Pittsburgh to perform, and back then I was just a fan girl and a beginning DJ. It’s quite amazing to think that we are roommates now...

There’s this painting I made a couple years ago. It was inspired vaguely by the 4 years I spent in Pittsburgh and by a collaborative project I was doing at the time called “With”. I knew I wanted to write a musical piece for it, so I went to Schenley Park with my friend Davis to get some field recordings...

Andy Stott is by far my greatest inspiration and this video to me is so amazing. The unexpected pairing of somewhat cliche portraits of people in New York (and a dancer) with the ethereal sound of Andy works like a match made in heaven! What was so surprising to me is that I was already listening to this track during my commutes in NYC before even seeing the video...

Please welcome to the blog Kathy Yaeji Lee, whose amazing new EP is out today on Godmode. Just yesterday p4k called her "one of the most fascinating vocalists in house music right now", and if you give a listen to her entrancing record below you'll see they are telling the truth...