Chaia is an electronic composer working at the intersection of Yiddish culture and electronic club music. She weaves archival Yiddish samples with techno and ambient frameworks, creating hybrid folkloric-electronic compositions that situate ancestral sound within global and liberatory rave ecologies.

Notes on the Mix ///

"This mix is an hour-long meditation on YIDDISH RITUALS, from witchy incantations to bathing ceremonies by moonlight. I selected Yiddish folksongs and interviews from various archives describing rituals long gone or still practiced today. I combined these rituals with a meditative mix of glittery techno and house. Pairs best with dancing barefoot in the moonlight🌛"

SOCIALS
@chaialeh
https://www.instagram.com/chaialeh/
https://chaialeh.bandcamp.com/
https://ra.co/dj/chaia

List of rituals (in order of appearance in the mix):
Shabbes table zmiros and prayers 
Mikveh (ritual immersion) for fertility
Tekhine (ritual incantation) for protection of the collective soul
Mazltov (escorting the bride)
Matzah Baking ritual song
Laag Baomer tish song (holiday table song)
Tekhine (ritual incantation) for safe childbirth
Nign (wordless melody for meditation)
Mikveh (ritual immersion) for shabbes 
Courting ritual 
Tekhine (ritual incantation) for healing ancestral trauma 
Traveling ritual 

TRACKLIST:
Ikh Benk Aheym - Golda Malavsky
Passerine - Mary Lake 
Tokyo Street - Wallace 
Alienn Moves - Nathan Melja 
Debra Weiss Yashinsky - Wexler Oral History Project
Undzer Folks Neshome - Noam Lerman
Night Passage - 747
Harei Kedem (Primordial Mountains) - Nathaniel Berman (from the Zohar)
Redpath - Huay
Mazltov Boris - Brave Old World 
Superimposed - Original Mix - Spirit Catcher
Mentshn Getraye: a Matse-Podriad Lid - Jacob Gorelik 
100.5 BPM - Manuel Tur 
Zigainer Tanz - Elaine Hoffman Watts and Susan Watts
Teleportation - Ed Ed 
Lag Baomer Tish - Faltishaner Rebbe 
Textuell - Mixed - Oval 
Hot Rakhmones / Tkhine For a Safe Childbirth - Feygeleah
Robert Hood - Unix 
Niggun Neshama - Neshama Carlebach
Big Feels - 3Phaz
Aero Deck - Oval
Evergloom - Mary Lake
Mikveh and Kabbalistic Meditation - Rabbi Yitzchak Schwartz
Nem Aroys a Ber fun Vald - Feygl Sultan
Mental Health Problems - Frederic.
Tkhine for Healing Ancestral Trauma - Ariel Shapiro
Tseyde-laderekh - Moti Friedman
Tseyde-laderekh - Chaia Vocals





XOXA BLEND 261 - Chaia

[Intro]
They thought I was the songbird drowned,
A name forgotten, lost and bound.
But I am tide, I am scream,
I am the shaper of every dream.

[Verse I]
He said I was small, a petal, a flame,
A thing to hush, to own, to tame.
But wild things bloom in poison soil,
And beauty burns when forced to toil.

[Pre-Chorus]
You kissed my lips to steal my voice,
But I drank the sea — and made my choice.

[Chorus Metal]
I sang beneath the waves, alone!
Now I call your name in stone!
Ní mise do mhúirnín, ní mise do sclábhaí!
(I am not your darling, not your slave!)
Is mise an tonn a leáíonn do chroí!
(I am the wave that melts your heart!)

[Verse II]
I was never yours to break!
Your chains were built on your own ache!
You feared the power in my breath…
Now taste my song. Now taste your death.

[Bridge]
“Fágfaidh mé do shúile dall.” (I will leave your eyes blind.)
“Beidh d’ainm i mo chaoin le bás.” (Your name will echo in my death cry.)
“Is mise an fharraige — is mise an deireadh.”
(I am the sea — I am the end.)

[Chorus]
I sang beneath the waves, alone!
Now I call your name in stone!
Ní mise do mhúirnín, ní mise do sclábhaí!
Is mise an tonn a leáíonn do chroí!

[Outro]
Voice like dagger, heart like sea,
You will never silence me…
“Is mé mo guth. Is mé mo shlán.”
(I am my voice. I am my salvation.)

Guth Cosúil le Dagger, Croí Cosúil le Farraige

[Intro]
Under moon’s pale eye I swore in silence,
But tonight, I scream with thunder’s violence.

[Verse I]
You chained my worth to shadows and shame,
Carved your venom into my name.
You wore the mask of saints and kings,
But bled me dry with puppet strings.

[Pre-Chorus]
Stone by stone, I built my might,
From ashes black, I steal the light.

[Chorus]
I am the storm you tried to drown!
I rise from the ashes you cast me down!
Ní bheidh tú i gceannas orm níos mó! (You will rule me no more!)
Scaoilfidh mé mo guth i ngach scréach ón chnoc!
(I will release my voice in every scream from the hill!)

[Verse II]
LIAR — you fed me dust and bone!
THIEF — you broke what you could never own!
FRAUD — I see the ghost behind your grin!
WRETCH — you’ll choke on every sin!

[Pre-Chorus]
I lit the pyres of every scar,
And wore them proud like armor stars.

[Chorus]
I am the storm you tried to drown!
I rise from the ashes you cast me down!
Ní bheidh tú i gceannas orm níos mó!
Scaoilfidh mé mo guth i ngach scréach ón chnoc!

[Bridge]
“Ní hé do ghuth mo chinniúint.” (Your voice is not my destiny.)
“Ní fhuilfidh mé faoi do scáil.” (I won’t bleed beneath your shadow.)
I AM FIRE — UNHOLY — REBORN!

[Final Chorus]
I am the storm you tried to drown!
I rise from the ashes you cast me down!
Ní bheidh tú i gceannas orm níos mó!
Scaoilfidh mé mo guth – mo anam – mo chroí saor!
(I will release my voice – my soul – my heart free!)

Scáth mo Shaoil” (“Shadow of My Life”)

Sarajevo Nights

Gopnik Parade

Tirana heat

Zlatni Ritmovi

Skopje Vice

Another new (old) track from the forthcoming album.

The Harbours Gathering Hand

The Halls of the Mystics

Collecting, reparing and  making all kinds of instruments.
Then make music with them.

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A very hippie kitty, thats all
Married, Demi &Goose<3
Pssst! Checkout Her Daydream<3

 Un chico haciendo cualquier tipo de música en la trap house 

XOXA is a boutique booking agency and events promoter based out of North American and the United Kingdom. Their mission is to support and highlight talented marginalized artists in the electronic dance music industry. 

XOXA BLEND is a long running mix series featuring a wide range of genres and sounds from queer people & womxn (& select allies). 

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March 22nd 2025 23:00 - 08:00
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Edinburgh, Scotland
March 27th 2025 23:00 - 03:00
treasure, treasure @ Sneaky Pete's
DJ Shannon, Robin Flux & Panooc

Brooklyn, New York
April 5th, 2025 10pm - 5am
XOXA 8 Year Anniversary @ GoodRoom
Fatherhood (Michael Magnan b2b Physical Therapy), Jubilee, HONEY B, Kiernan Laveaux b2b Sobolik & DJ Shannon)

London, UK
April 19th 2025 20:00 - 03:00
Extracurricular @ Cu Dalston
XOXA x Fortune Signal
Seb Odyssey, John Xie, D.D. Curry & Panooc
Open Decks - Application on our Linktree

Past events (2024-25):

Edinburgh, Scotland
January 30th 2025 11pm - 3am
treasure, treasure @ Sneaky Pete's
Hayley Zalassi & Panooc

Berlin, DE
Nov 29th 8pm - 4am FLINTA* Open Decks & Les Libertines after party w/ Panooc & zikade @ Secret Location

Brooklyn, NY
Nov 16th 10pm - 5am Good Room 10 Year Anniversary Party @ Good Room w/ Powder, Gee Dee & XOXA Bad Room Takeover: HONEY B & PlayPlay

Berlin, DE
July 24th 8pm - midnight FLINTA* Open Decks w/ Panooc & Amy Dabbs @ Secret Location

Brooklyn, NY
June 28th 10pm - 5am PRIDAY @ Good Room w/ Amy Dabbs, DJ Shannon b2b HONEY B & KNDYFRK (Kandylion b2b SPRFRK) - Peer Pressure Bad Room Takeover (That Matt, Drew Beck & Heidy P.)

Brooklyn, NY
June 14th 10:30pm - 4am Flamingo Pride @ Black Flamingo w/ Robin Flux, Charles Hawthorne & Heidy P.

Berlin, DE
May 25th 11pm - 8am XOXA x BRENN. @ SchwuZ w. Olive T, Flemish.Fetish, Panooc & Open Decks

Edinburgh, UK
May 16th 11pm - 3am Have a nice rave @ Bongo Club w/ Ron Like Hell, Panooc, Bartek & Feena

Glasgow, UK
May 11th 11pm-3am XOXA - Glasgow @ Stereo ft. Kilopatrah Jones, Robin Flux & Panooc

Brooklyn, NY
April 27th 10pm - 5am XOXA 7 Year Anniversary @ Good Room w/ Ariel Zetina, Tammy Lakkis, HONEY B b2b nextdimensional, DJ Shannon, Heidy P. & Kandylion

Brooklyn, NY
April 26th 10pm-midnight XOXA w/ Panooc & Tammy Lakkis - The Lot Radio

London, UK @ Dalston Superstore
April 12th 2024 
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Berlin, DE @ Renate
January 20th 2024

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New tracks tagged #Folklore