Berlin-based, London born DJ & CONTR4ST Label owner, fka.m4a has become a stalwart of underground music with a heady blend of Italo, high NRG and Progressive House. With several Boiler Room appearances under his belt - clocking up over half a million streams combined - plus shows everywhere from Timewarp, Tomorrowland to Awakenings, features in Mixmag and Electronic Beats, plus Peggy Gou in his corner as a mentor, his stock is firmly on the rise. 

Born in London, music was always front and centre in his family home, his mother playing music to him through headphones while he was still in the womb. Citing acts whose USP was female empowerment as the first music he found for himself, the likes of Spice Girls and Lil Kim were early musical influences, eventually leading him to start DJing on the queer scene in London. 

“I was working on the Soho & East London circuit” he says. “I was mainly doing guestlist and hosting but eventually they asked me to DJ and I spent a few years cutting my teeth on that scene.” 

Learning how to work a crowd as a pop DJ, seeing Honey Dijon DJ on his first trip to Berlin in 2016 led him down the rabbit hole of electronic music and led to a shift in his focus. 

“I completely fell in love with the storytelling element of her set,” he says. “I spent the next year immersed in dance music culture and started playing the electronic room at gay nights.” 

Moving to Berlin in 2019, the pandemic quickly put a stop to his burgeoning DJ career before a switch to recording streams from his apartment during covid saw his profile blow up, leading to signing with an agency and bagging his first Panorama Bar set when lockdown lifted. 

With Peggy Gou taking him under her wing and asking him to regularly open for her (“She’s helped me out so much and we have a really strong relationship,” he says. “She calls me her daughter and I call her my mother,” he laughs.), fka.m4a’s schedule got hectic with sets everywhere from Warehouse Project to Sonar and a focus on producing their own music. 

“It’s important for me to make music that works in the club,” he says. ‘But most importantly, it’s about making something that comes straight from the heart. I think I’ve achieved that on my first EP and I can’t wait for people to connect with it.” 

With an event series in the pipeline and a summer stacked with festival shows from Hï Ibiza to Terminal V, fka.m4a has firmly cemented himself as one of the leading artists in the underground space.

Fêtes électroniques et magazine en ligne

Bookings at: booking@ninkasi.co
Promos/Remixes/Mixdowns
harrywillsmusic@gmail.com

4/5: Ambers - Manchester
16/5: Instore - Berlin 
24/5: Progress Centre - Manchester
24/5: The Imaginarium - Leeds
28/5: La Cheetah - Glasgow
4/6: TBA - Berlin
6/6: E1 - London
8/6: Barking Park - London
14/6: Gottwood Festival - Wales
4/7: TBA - Bristol
5/7: TBA - Newcastle
20/7: Bassfest - Sheffield
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1/1: The Steelyard - London
13/2: Golden Gate - Berlin
15/2: 211 - Paris
20/2: OHM - Berlin
21/2: The Imaginarium - Leeds
11/3: HOR - Berlin
21/3: Sonnenraum - Berlin
22/3: The Cause - London
20/4: Bulbul - Berlin
===========2024=============
28/1: Lion & Lamb - London
1/3 Slapfunk @ Archives - London
8/3: Pickle Factory - London
9/3: La Marbrerie - Paris
21/4: Lion & Lamb - London
4/5: Progress Centre @ Tanzaro House - Manchester
5/5: Half Baked @ Number 90 - London
24/5: Project 6 Festival - London
14/6: Gottwood Festival - Wales
21/7: Fabric - London
24/8: Slapfunk @ LoFi - Amsterdam
1/9: Dimensions Festival - Croatia
11/10: Hoppetosse - Berlin
19/10: Hidden - Manchester
20/10: NDSM Theatre - Amsterdam
24/10: Mudd Show - Berlin
3/11: Fuse @ 93 Ft East - London
15/11: Under Bron - Stockholm
7/12: 1-06 Salon - Berlin
===========2023=============
16/12: Phone Traxxx - Fuse @ Fabric - London
25/11: Chapeau Rouge - Prague
24/11: BDT x Swim @ Swim - Prague
23/11: Nightube @ World HQ - Newcastle
28/10: Phone Traxxx - Picnic @ Village Underground - London
27/10: Phone Traxxx @ Lakota - Bristol
20/10: Phone Traxxx - slapfunkrecords @ Shelter - Amsterdam
7/10: Salty Nuts @ Renate - Berlin
30/9: record @ XOYO - Birmingham
29/9: Phone Traxxx - shangri_la_uk @ Bluebox - York
17/9: Lacoste @ Dray Walk Gallery - London
6/8: Mui Mui Showcase @ Star Lane - London
4/8: Ba Dum Tish Showcase @ NT's Loft - London
4/8: Untitled Unkown @ Phonica - London
8/7: Phone Traxxx @ Eastenderz - Mint Club - Leeds
8/7: Phone Traxxx @ Cutting The Mustard - Silverthorne Lane - Bristol
23/6: BulBul - Berlin
19/6: Unkraut Boat Party - Berlin
11/6: Gottwood Festival - UK
10/6: Phone Traxxx - Gottwood Festival - UK
13/5: Phone Traxxx - Club Laak, Den Haag
7/5: Repeat Bar - Berlin
30/4: Phone Taxxx @ After Caposile
29/4: Phone Traxxx @ Rashomon, Rome
14/4: Phone Traxxx @ Picnic - Hoppetosse, Berlin
7/4: Phone Traxxx @ Slapfunk - Shelter, Amsterdam
18/3: Rashomon - Rome
12/3: Phone Traxxx @ Fuse - E1, London
2/2: Lifestyling @ Village Underground - Lisbon
===========2022=============
27/12: Peach Puff @ Ballroom Blitz - Beirut
25/11: Phone Traxxx @ The Exchange - Bristol
24/11: Phone Traxxx @ Lion & Lamb - London
17/11: Zur Klappe - Berlin
22/10: Bul Bul - Berlin
15/10: Phone Traxxx @ The Kavern - Braintree
14/10: Phone Traxxx @ Sector 57 - Birmingham
8/10: Sonder @ The Goose - London
17/9: Phone Traxxx @ Club De Visonaere - Berlin
12/8: Olan Deep - Moldova
5/8: Wacky Records @ Star Lane - London
2/8: Strandbar - Berlin
22/7: Pambuku @ Stage & Radio - Manchester
14/7: Danube Instore @ KMA60 - Berlin
9/7: Phone Traxxx @ Lion & Lamb - London
8/7: Phone Traxxx @ Distrikt - Leeds
10/6: Ba Dum TIsh @ Gottwood Festival - UK
9/6: Phone Traxxx @ Gottwood Festival - UK
4/6: Phone Traxxx @ RSO - Berlin
28/5: Phone Traxxx @ Pickle Factory - London
29/4: Zur Klappe - Berlin 
15/4: Sticky Plastik - London
8/4: Imagine Family @ La Peniche - Paris
3/4: Phone Traxxx @ Hoppetosse - Berlin
26/3:La Singerie @ La Suite - Brest
12/3: Sock It To Me @ Wire - Leeds
4/3: Spaced @ The Goose - London
3/3: Phone Traxxx @ Fabric - London
===========2021=============
12/11: Avalance Soundsytem @ Petit Bain - Paris 
9/10: Wigflex City Festival - Nottingham
3/10: Sticky Plastic @ Star Lane - London
10/9: DBT @ Cottiers - Glasgow
30/8: Mass @ Annies Attic - Southend
29/8: Oscuro @ 93 Feet East - London
21/8: Shangri La @ Drawing Board - York
7/8: Boxed @ Stage & Radio - Manchester
31/7: The Waves @ The Golden Fleece - Nottingham
30/7: Sock It To Me @ Pickle Factory - London
27/6: Sticky Plastic - London
26/6: Carcosa @ The Cause - London
8/6: Club De Visionaire - Berlin
===========2020=============
25/9: BODYMVMT @ The Cause - London
7/3: Proto @ ifZ - Leipzig
6/3: Long Vehicle @ Zur Klappe - Berlin
21/2: Orbital London @ Silbergold - Frankfurt
14/2: Re:cord @ Hare & Hounds - Birmingham
1/2: Solis @ Bow Bridge - London
30/1: Rinse FM - London
11/1: Mtkvarze - Tblisi
11/1: Small Moves In store - Tblisi
===========2019=============
6/12: Bite Back @ Stage & Radio - Manchester
23/ 11: UK Hun @ Lion & Lamb - London
22/11: Cosies - Bristol
9/11: Sock it to me @ MOT Unit 18 - London
9/11: Bloop Radio - London
2/11: Vanilla @ HiFi Club - Leeds
26/10: XLR8R afters @ TBA - London
19/10: Speakeasy @ Brickhouse Social - Manchester
18/10: Radium @ North Shore Troubadour - Liverpool
18/10: Melodic Distraction - Liverpool
5/10: Phone Traxxx Live - Art of Dark @ Studio 338 - London
27/9: Megabuff @ Diskothek Melancholie 2 - Berlin
14/9: Grazin' Squad @ Lion & Lamb - London
11/8: Body Mvmnt x Resolute @ The Cause, London
10/8: Reset @ Unit 38, London
2/8: Silbergold - Frankfurt
25/7: Radio X - Frankfurt
13/7: Kann House @ ://about blank - Berlin
12/7: Grazin' Squad @ Lion & Lamb - London
28/6: Lemak Showcase @ DTLA - Los Angeles
22/6: Allegory - Washington DC
21/6: Rendevous @ Cape House - New York
7/6: Gottwood Festival, UK
27/5: Project London Forest Party - London
25/5: Art of Dark @ The Cause - London
18/5: Hansa 14 @ Yachtklub - Frankfurt
12/4: Slalom @ Uferlos - Lucerne
30/3: Balamii Radio - London
10/3: Horoom, Bassiani - Tbilisi
9/3: Mtkvarze - Tbilisi
8/3: Candy Bar - Tbilisi
23/2: Kultura Zvuka - Kharkiv

Sean Johnston has been DJ'ing since his formative years in the frozen North. Acid House Veteran, Techno Survivor, Hardway Bros, Beard Scientist and Freelance Disco Consultant he has played at some of London's landmark clubs including The Promised Land, Sabre Sonic, Club UK, Final Frontier, Disco Bloodbath and was one of the founding residents at London Super Club Cable. He also plays regularly at Voyage Voyage in up and coming Berlin venue Salon Zur Wilden Renate.
His productions, alongside fellow Hardway Bros, Jake Davies and a mysterious South Londoner known only as Rico have graced Sabres of Paradise, Third Mind, Flashcomm and more recently Beard Science, Pointless Edits, Aniligital, History Clock, Astrolab and cult Norwegian act Mungolian Jetset's label Luna Flicks. 
 
Sean's DJ'ing style described by FACT Magazine as "Future Disco" is hard to pin down to one convenient genre, taking in house, disco, re-edits, techno and frankly anything else that takes his fancy. 
 
Alongside Andrew Weatherall he runs and DJ's at A Love From Outer Space, a cult monthly residency at The Drop in North London. The night's manifesto is to never knowingly exceed 122bpm and is home to a multitude of genres including ambient, balearica, dub, krautrock, post punk, proto house, un-disco and other curiosities from the pair's extensive record collections.

Bookings

http://www.spunoutagency.com/

DJ/Producer
Night Service Co-Founder
Tresor Resident 
Bookings: oliver@elitemm.co.uk
Promo: baileyibbsdj@gmail.com

Born and raised in Poland. 
Occupied @stickyplastik

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