DJ Lady's Dad - Home CoOked / Welcome HOME MIX - Your Shot 2024 NSW Group 2 DJ Competition HOME MADE stage @ Home the Venue. 

🏅Honorable Mention 🏅

Introduction Speech 🇦🇲🫶🏻🇵🇸
#letsheal

Parev (Armenian greetings), and as-salā mu'laykum (peace be upon you in Arabic), my friends. Did you know there are around 300 languages spoken here in Australia? Imagine how much richer our lives would be if we embraced that diversity that is all around us! 

Now, let's get real for a moment, we are all adults here.... There is a word being thrown around a lot these days I have to talk to you about. This word is "genocide". And it is less than 100 years old... This word was created to describe the Jewish Holocaust, and the 1915 Armenian genocide, where 1.5 million of my people, along with almost 2 million Greeks and Assyrians were wiped off the face of the earth. Less than a year ago, the entire Armenian population of Artsakh was also ethnically cleansed from their homeland of 7000 years. And as we stand here today, there are 2 million Palestinians who are displaced and also without a safe space to call home.

But you know what? Tonight, We're all here together, we are at Home the mother fucking venue !!!! So Tonight, Let's honor those who've have lost their homes, let us come together in solidarity. 

I have named this MIX Home Cooked 🇦🇲 / Welcome Home 🇵🇸!  I dedicate this to my motherland Armenia, to my Palestinian family here today, and to all oppressed and persecuted people in the world!

Welcome HOME everyone! Through thick and thin, I hold you in my heart. Your pain is mine, and I'm with you every step of the way. I know you cover up your immense pain with a smile and a brave face every single day but this moment is your moment and I want you to feel it. If you need to dance let's dance, if you need to scream let's scream, if you need to cry let's cry, just do it! Let's fucking rage!  🫶🏻 Let's fucking goooooooo🔥

Your Shot NSW - Home COoKed 🇦🇲 - Welcome Home 🇵🇸 Mix (😎 Honourable mention 😎)

Michele Vescio presents a mix curated and performed by friend and emerging DJ, David Varjabedian, who performs under the moniker DJ Lady’s Dad, an Armenian-Australian DJ based on Gadigal Land. The mix contains influences from traditional Middle Eastern and Armenian folk music with modern techno, house, and acid references.

Armenia Kulbas, a registered NGO that allocates 100% of profits to support charities in Armenia and Artsakh, focusing on education, regional development and humanitarian aid. 
More info via 
kulbas.org

Olive Kids, an Australian foundation dedicated to support the children of Palestine, to build local capacity, support local businesses, and enable self-determination. 
More info via 
olivekids.org.au

Australia for UNHCR, an organisation that supports people fleeing conflict, disaster, and persecution. Humanitarian aid is now necessary in Lebanon. More info via 
unrefugees.org.au

3CR Melbourne - A mix dedicated to Armenia, Artsakh, Palestine and Lebanon

DJ Lady's Dad @ Barba 𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖔 2024. Brown Alley, Melbourne / Naarm.
Home COoKed Mix #2.

Why be good when you can be Wicked? 😈💚 *evil cackle*

With our all witches themed Halloween weekend rave we’ll be defying gravity, partying across all levels of Brown Alley. Whether you’re pretty in pink like Glinda, or gorgeously green like Elphaba, this is sure to be a witchy, weird and wonderful party. 

𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖔 is a themed party and dressing up/down in a look that celebrates all things Wicked is strongly encouraged! This party, like all of our parties, is a fun celebration of our diverse community, the power of being a misfit, existing and creating a world of beauty and pleasure on the fringes. So come and join us for a night of Wicked fun!

Barba Monstruo 2024 Live set - Home COoKed Mix #2

DJ Lady's Dad @ Hardwire - Abercrombie Sydney (Gadigal Land)

LadyDaddyCrombie Mix @ Hardwire-Abercrombie - 29 - 11 - 2024

#techno #psytech #acid #minimal

JIZZ is a yearly and all inclusive event, powered by BARBA presents featuring multiple levels filled with Australia’s best queer DJs and performers and playing host to some of the finest international imports. 





Barba JIZZ 2025 afterparty - Get out of my mind -(Home Cooked mix 3)

Our 3rd Instalment of one of Sydney's, and Abercrombie's, biggest nights. 

Mardi Gras! We're flexing our 24hr license for the first time in a while and we're going all night. 10pm-10am so we can celebrate love and lovers to the late hours of Sunday morning. TICKETS MOVING FAST!

Lineup: Crescendoll, PARTIGIRL, Rydeen, Pinz, ATTU, Ecoslut, Alaika, DJ Lady's Dad & Kat Zia

Abercrombie - Mardi Gras Parade After Party 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

SWANA Mix 1 - Let me take you on a Journey 🌏

Happy Birthday Julia XX

Welcome to Candyland 10-05-2025

Candy Land is a space for community to gather, grow, and create together.
�We’re building a welcoming home for collaboration, art, skill-sharing, and support. Whether you're here to make something, host something, or just connect — you’re invited to be a part of it.

🌈 What we’re about:
• Community-focused and open-hearted
• A beautiful and versatile indoor + outdoor space
• Creativity, art, skill-sharing, and collaboration
• Hosting gatherings that bring people together
• A place to create, repair, connect, and care

Welcome to Candyland - Closing Set (Home CoOked Mix 4) 🍭🍬🪈🇦🇲

Welcome to the Home CoOked Mix #5
Opening set for OddBeat Metamorphosis Ball. 🦋


This is what happens when you mix various types of Acid with Electronica, Arabic, Armenian, Organic house and Indie Dance. 🫠

Happy Metamorphosis 🫶🏻

ODDBEAT presents: The Metamorphosis Ball.

This edition we debut our new name: ODDBEAT (fka offbeat). Let's emerge from our chrysalis into our queer music wonderland blooming beyond the binary.

A momentous transformation, shedding skin and expectations with every beat. Dance among butterflies and fireflies, tadpoles, and toadstools. Whether dazzling-in-drag, cloaked in mystery, barely dressed, or just beginning to open your wings, come join us to celebrate the queerness of transformation!   

Lewks, drag, and dress-up are highly encouraged!

All genders, bodies, and sexualities are welcome. Respect first, respect always. First Nations Peoples dance free (reach out via IG @oddbeattheparty).

*ODDBEAT acknowledges we gather on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people. Always was, always will be Aboriginal land!

OddBeat 3 (Live) - The Metamorphosis Ball 🦋 - Opening set (Home CoOked Mix 5)

09-OCT-2025

After a brief hiatus from the decks and some extensive sound refinement, DJ Lady's Dad is officially back, serving you the most sexy, unhinged, and playful vibes yet! You can expect a combination of Indie Dance, Tech House and Psychedelic techno with deep pounding bass lines.

This set is simple! It is all about letting go, playfully saying F*CK off to the BS, and most importantly, remaining connected to ourselves, our bodies, and to each other. RELEASE YOURSELF!

I extend my deepest gratitude to El, to  Paisley and the rest of the Rave temple crew for warmly inviting me to Rave Temple Eora and marking the beginning of a new chapter in my journey. 🫶🏻 

Rave Temple is a series of parties, events, workshops, and installations. Our small team of queer, trauma-informed individuals is passionate about building community, evolving culture, promoting sexual liberation, and partying with purpose.

Rave Temple Eora - Release Yourself mix 🧖🏻‍♂️🫦 (Home CoOked Mix 6)

BARBA Monstruo
2025-11-02 5am-7am
Main stage and Dark Room Closing Set  

Step into a world where reality is a corrupted file, where identities flicker like unstable signals, and truth is as fluid as gender. The algorithms are watching. The machines are learning. And the system? It was never built for us.

But queerness has always been the flaw in their system, the unpredictable variable they can’t control.

On November 2nd 2025, 𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖔 invites you to a night of distorted realities and untamed queerness. We’re crafting an immersive realm where AI rules like an all-seeing overlord, misinformation mutates like a virus, and reality fractures like a red pill swallowed too late.

Will you resist, or will you be rewritten?

Navigate through mind-bending rooms where live performers embody digital phantoms, some seductive, some sinister, manipulating the very fabric of what you see and feel.

Experience the pulse of the night as our DJs hijack the airwaves that will have you questioning what’s real and what’s just noise.

And your look? A corrupted file of its own design. This is a night for digital phantoms, rogue AI, cyber seductresses, and glitched-out glam. Think dystopian couture meets misinformation madness, where tech-fueled nightmares collide with queer rebellion.

Barba 𝕸𝖔𝖓𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖚𝖔 2025 NAARM (Mainstage & Darkroom Closing set)

Expect the unexpected
Welcome to my genreverse 🌌
#genrebender #indiedance #psytech #acid #techno #driving #melodictechno #deephouse #organichouse #electronica #amapiano #arabic #armenian #folk 

DJ Lady's Dad  is first and foremost the proud father of Lady 😻, and also a Gadigal / Sydney based Armenian Australian DJ 🇦🇲🇦🇺. 

DJ Lady's Dad discovered his passion for DJing because he wanted the skills and creative freedom to tell stories through music. His mission is to bring people from diverse backgrounds together through the unifying power of music, using his craft to hold space and curate immersive experiences for communities and individuals who may otherwise fall through the cracks.

With an eclectic and wide-ranging musical taste, DJ Lady's Dad is fine-tuning his signature sound by incorporating traditional Middle Eastern and Armenian folk elements (when appropriate) with modern techno, psytech, indie dance, and acid. By carefully selecting and fusing his favorite English tracks into the mix, he creates hypnotic and enticing atmospheres that resonate with audiences on a deeper level and drives home his underlying message.

The "Home CoOked" collection is DJ Lady's Dad's inaugural project, with more on the way. Each "Home CoOked" set is curated in distinct chapters, with decisions around song selection and order being driven by lyrical meaning, rather than simply pairing genres that are "meant" to sound good together. This unconventional approach takes listeners on a rapid, emotive journey through a diverse range of genres, allowing them to feel whatever they need to, sometimes without warning.

DJ Lady's Dad owes it to the "Your Shot" DJ competition (the world's biggest DJ competition) where he was selected to undergo 6 weeks of training and compete in the 2024 NSW Group 2 Showcase at the Home Made stage at Home The Venue. 
His debut performance, "Home CoOked 🇦🇲 / Welcome HOME 🇵🇸," received an honorable mention🏅further solidifying his reputation and creativity and as a rising talent in the Sydney and Melbourne electronic music scene.

DJ Lady's Dad 🇦🇲

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