🧿 balkan siren
🪞 betwixt and between

Throughout her discography and performances, experimental pop and performance artist Sui Zhen has zoomed in on the intersections between human life and technology — how to exist in the digital age, as well as the ways in which we risk losing true sight of ourselves in the process. From the banal pastel dystopia of the Secretly Susan era music videos to the invention of Linda, a ghostly apparition who manifests in her latest LP, Losing, Linda – her cinematic, surreal and staged landscapes allow her unique take on pop music to sit within its own uncanny terrain.

🎵 Strictly good music. Strictly good vibes.
Curator of underground sounds—deep, progressive, afro, tech, and everything in between.
Geelong / Melbourne-based selector pushing sonic boundaries one set at a time.
Host of Strictly Sessions | Founder of Strictly…

🌀 Music has always been in my blood. I grew up surrounded by records and rhythm — Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Frank Zappa, Gladys Knight, Hendrix, The Four Tops, Simon & Garfunkel, and more. My mum played drums in a family band. My uncle? A jazz pianist lighting up Sydney clubs in the ’70s. At 8, I was singing classical choral works as a chorister in Christchurch Cathedral Choir — and by 16, I was sneaking into nightclubs, mesmerised by the music and the DJ.

💿 That led to crate-digging obsessions and DJ residencies across New Zealand in the ’90s — from Limbos, Ministry and The Edge in Christchurch to Metropolis & Cactus Club in Nelson. Import mags like Mixmag, DJ, The Face, and ID were my bible. I chased vinyl like others chase dreams. Eventually, I landed sets for legendary brands like Miss Moneypenny’s (UK) and made the leap to Melbourne in ’98.

🌃 Melbourne was magic — sets at Freakazoid, 161, Chasers, Jane’s Bar, and Monkey through the late ’90s and 2000s.
Today, I play everything from balearic chill to deep house to nostalgic 80s & 90s classics — always with a selector’s touch and a crowd in mind. Whether it’s a beachside sunset or a dark underground room, I bring the right records, the right energy, and the right vibe.

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