RA.907 AIDA

Before moving to San Francisco, Iranian-Canadian artist AIDA got her start in one of the world's more unlikely, yet nourishing, rave scenes tucked away in the southwest corner of Canada: Vancouver. There, amongst the basement raves, forest parties and yeast-perfumed gigs on top of bakeries, she found a home amidst a small but strong scene of record-digging minimal lovers, finding power in their pure passion for music. This is where she started, though over time her sound has developed along with a lot of the minimal scene, touching on electro, breaks and progressive house.

The latter is the focus of her RA Podcast, which comes amidst a year-long sabbatical from her dayjob to focus on music. It seems like the extra time is paying off: she's playing out more than ever, around the world, and playing more kinds of music, too. This mix revolves entirely around her love for the original wave of progressive house, gathered from records chosen over a period of weeks and then put together with a firm but idiosyncratic touch, as she explains below. It's as much a testament to the timelessness of this music as the cyclical nature of dance music, though it's also a bit of history lesson, a reminder of the broad world of sounds and rhythms beyond the au courant revival.

When she's not DJing, AIDA also runs a record label rooted in activism around her Iranian heritage. Inspired partly by the Woman Life Freedom movement in Iran, her imprint Apranik Records focuses on artists of Iranian and Persian heritage from the country and across the diaspora, as well as raising money for charities and nonprofits.

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2024:

07.29 | Orbit Festival, Netherlands
07.14 | Secretsundaze, Hackney
06.30 | TBA
06.21 | Sunset Campout, Belden Town
05.11 | Radio Radio, Amsterdam
05.10 | Horst Music and Arts, Belgium 
04.14 | SundaySunday, Mexico City
03.30 | isburning @ Lofi, Amsterdam
03.23 | UMI, Brussels 
03.23| Kiosk Radio, Brussels
03.16 | Nitsa, Barcelona
03.15 | Jaki, Cologne
03.03 | Berghain/Panorama Bar, Berlin

2023 
01.19 | IYKYK w/ DJ Masda, LA 
12.02 | Robot Heart Residency, Oakland
11.10 | House of Love @ HOY, NYC
10.27 | Cutting Shapes, Calgary
10.21 | w/ DJ Boring @ Public Works, San Francisco
9.30 | NAR, Utrecht
9.29 | Bloemerbar, Nijmegen
09.24 | Berghain/Panorama Bar, Berlin
09.16  | Leave Us Lost, Vancouver
08.19 | Club Moniker w/ Anunaku, San Francisco
07.25  | System Error @ Club der Visionaere, Berlin
07.23  | Secret Garden Party, UK
07.15  | Night Tales, London
06.30 | Sprenger Solutions @ PRST, Vienna
06.23 | De School, Amsterdam
06.16  | Culturebox, Copenhagen
06.12  | Circoloco DC10, Ibiza 
06.09 | Gottwood Festival, Wales
06.02 | HÖR, Apranik Records Takeover, Berlin
05.13  | IYKYK w/ Evan Baggs, LA 
05.12  | Nakano Smith , Tokyo
04.25 | Club 6 w/ DJ Seinfeld, San Francisco
04.22 | Flash w/ Chez Damier, DC
03.18  | Giegling X Sunset Soundsystem, San Francisco
03. 15 | SXSW, Austin
03. 14 | SXSW, Austin
03.07 | Refuge Worldwide - Berlin
02.28 | HÖR - Berlin
02.26 | Berghain/Panorama Bar, Berlin
02.24 | Robert Johnson, Frankfurt 
02.28 | Paradise w/ DJ Holographic, Vancouver
01.27  | Bambi's, Toronto
01.01  | Mood, Brooklyn NYC
12.28 | Disco Tehran, Brooklyn NYC 

Booking: dave@sweatlodgeagency.com
Contact: aida@somekindoftherapy.ca

Pronounced [ 👁eye-da ]
AIDA can be found at the intersection of two contrasting worlds: rich Iranian roots and a serene west-coast Canadian upbringing.This dichotomy is infused in everything she crafts. It’s here that she blends various genres with a mastery of someone who lives and creates at the boundary of their duality. Combining elements of world-inspired music with electronic, she gives colorful twists to masterful blends of groovy house, techno, and breaks geared for the dancefloor.

Her duality extends beyond her music career into yet another realm of the senses. As a designer, AIDA is a rare entity fully dedicated to creativity and movement. Embodied with focus and discipline, she inspires others that it’s possible to excel where they find themselves at an intersection, crossroad, boundary. . . or just a dancefloor.

RA.907 AIDA

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