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Booking Contact: zenna@badwizad.com

Irish producer Jack O’Connor has been performing and producing electronic music for over 8 years under the name Zenna. Currently based in Barcelona he operates from his recently built beachside studio where he creates his unique groove of psychedelic beats. 

With a depth of style traversing psytech, deep tech, progressive house & minimal techno Zenna amalgamates this vast territory with a distinctive signature flair characterized by deep grooves, hypnotic rhythms, driving basslines and the perfect seasoning of psychedelia.

Appearing for the first time at Dublin’s Yamamori-Tengu, Zenna went on to move some of the city's most prolific dance floors with notable perfromances at Pygmalion, Berlin D2, Opium, The Sugar Club and The Bernard Shaw before relocating to Barcelona.

His international touring has brought his music to Ibiza, Berlin, Kenya, Portugal, Barcelona, Sri Lanka and the USA with a homecoming for his debut festival performance in Ireland at Fuinneamh Festival. 

Zenna’s production debut About You & Dawn Moon released with When We Dips TOR imprint. He later appeared on Roth Sounds from Tulums renowned Azulik Creative Collective with a meditative, ambient/organic 2 Track EP 'Oceana' and soon returned to Roth Sounds with a 3 Track EP 'Amarna' the stand out track of this release 'Anubis' reached #36 in the Deep Tech Minimal Beatport charts.

Come Dance With Me:
14.04 - Sri Lanka
06.09 - Ireland - Enter Mushroom

Recent Touring 

2023
16.09 - Ireland, Fuinneamh Festival
01.09 - Ibiza, Cafe del Mar
12.07 - Portugal - LICK
03.02 - Barcelona - News & Coffee 

2022
16.02 - Denver, CO - Broadway Market
13.09 - Berlin - KW Institute of Contemporary Art
24.09 - Kenya - Beneath The Boababs

2021
29.10 - Dublin - Pygmalion

2019 
09.02 - Dublin - BERLIND2
25.03 - Dublin - BERLIND2
29.03 - Dublin - BERLIND2
04.05 - Wicklow - Brickbear Mountain Festival 
01.06 - Dublin - The Bernard Shaw
27.08 - Dublin - the Music Cafe
26.10 - Wicklow - Brickbear Mountain Festival
01.11 - Dublin - The Sugar Club
29.11 - Dublin - OPIUM - RAEVE

2018
12.07 - Dublin - Tengu
27.07 - Portugal - Boom Festival Funky Beach
09.10 - Dublin - BERLIND2

Badwizad is a live act from Irish brothers Jack & Sam O’Connor, a long conceptualised collaboration from two individually seasoned producers that was finally realised at the end of 2022. 

Articulated as free range & organic psychedelic electronica, their sonic aesthetic encompasses a wide array of influences from trip hop and deep house to alternative indie and psychedelic jazz/funk.

Their debut single ‘Be Bad’ is expected to be released in 2024.