Month: July 2024

Lalit is a Southeast Asian-American DJ/producer, astrologer, movement enthusiast and event organizer. Formerly a resident DJ at Brooklyn’s Bossa Nova Civic Club, they currently operate through Red Room, the premiere underground club in their new home city of Yangon, Myanmar.

A founding member of the global interdisciplinary artist collective Xiao Ma Party Controllers, Lalit was a seminal presence in NYC’s underground music scene since 2012. Known primarily for their work as the DJ/vocalist VVEISS, Lalit has also composed, written songs, and performed in ensembles such as the hardcore punk band Rollers, math-jazz duo O-NAMI, ambient drone group The Firmament, DJ duo Alias, and other cross-genre collaborations within the American avant-garde and dance circles.

Lalit’s prolific involvement as an innovator in the realm of dance music and queer rave community-building has led them everywhere from the San Francisco Bay Area to Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Berlin, Bogota, and now to Southeast Asia.

At the forefront of Yangon’s burgeoning dance music renaissance, Lalit works closely with the Red Room team to conduct DJ workshops, educate on safer-space policies, assist the release of local artists’ work with mixing/mastering, and expand the city’s musical horizons and historical knowledge through their influential style of DJing, live performance, and production.

Grounded in experiential studies of both the ancient traditions of Indian classical music and the black futurist vision of techno, Lalit’s musical practice dives deep into the extremes of metallic industrial noise, coiling harmonic synthesis, vocal poetics, and compounding polyrhythms, juggling the notion of structure and tradition with the liberation from the same.

Every offering from Lalit speaks to their appreciation for the rich and sometimes hidden interconnections across family trees of musical forms and diasporas around the world. Depending on the set and setting, their sets move unpredictably yet artfully through the most treacherous hardtechno, hardcore, jungle, and tek, creatively blending in pop, hip-hop, club, footwork, and south/east Asian anthems to envelop the dancefloor in a time-warping, border-jumping fever dream.

Tracklist:
vveiss – escape velocity
LALIT – Ra Raa (Ha)
LALIT – Hyper-Mimetic Terror Device (Temple Version)
Karakattakaran – Mariyamma
Gabber Eleganza/The Panacea – Grande Raccordo Anulare
Jumping Back Slash – Paganini
LALIT – Kaligula (2024)
LALIT – Hypnotikuthu
Bouhinga – Gabar Pyat (apocalypse)
xtradiol! – SRK IF HE WAS BASED (Lungi Jump Mix)
Emme – Safety
Marc Acardipane – Home of the Sick (Original Version) (Remastered)
The Rhythm Zone – Dance Beats Nonstop Sambalpuri Rhythm Series Ep 1
vveiss – tease
Raja Kirik – Barongan II
Sd Laika – It’s Ritual
LALIT – Hayi Shava
glassJAw – Two Tabs of Mescaline (LALIT edit)