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Soumaya Phéline has been active as promotor and DJ in Brussels’ music scene since 2006. She has been forming long standing party like High Needs Low, currently organising Club Détour and hosts her own “Soumaya Phéline & Les Copains” radio show on Brussels’ Kiosk Radio.
As a DJ Soumaya Phéline’s journey through electronic music is a horizontal one. Vacillating from Bass to Jungle to experimental sounds or another she pays particular attention to narratives through unsettling sounds by exploring CDJ like an instrument. Her Dj-sets play with the crowd’s expectations of kicks: carefully questioning them while keeping an eye on the dance-floor’s desires till the early dawn. If electronic music has been deeply influenced by an outer space imaginary, Soumaya belongs to those who bring our attention back to the outerspaceness of earthy sounds.
Soumaya Phéline is part of Psst Mlle, an intersectional feminist platform promoting underrepresented artists and focus on deconstructing the dance floor, standing up for representation & inclusion in the nightlife. Soumaya Phéline’s been touring the club circuit throughout Europe in clubs/festival such as Horst festival, Dekmantel Selectors, Tresor, Salon Des Amateurs, Meakusma Festival, ://About Blank, La Machine du Moulin Rouge, Bozar Electronic Music Festival, Beursschouwburg, Tashweesh Festival, Kapital Bollwerk, Fuse, C12, mostly touring in Europe by train for a more eco-friendly music scene. And Oil Club, SHCR, All Club, TAG, Bonobo,.. during a tour in China & Japan. She focuses on researches on hearing risk awareness in the music industry as well. She also performed for Boiler Room & hosted 3 days BR for Listen Festival in 2019.
Short Bio
Brussels-based DJ, promoter, local active figure since 2006, Kiosk Radio host, and member of the Psst Mlle & Club Détour collectives, Soumaya Phéline isn’t here to make crowds feel comfortable. Instead, she constantly toys with dancefloor expectations by drawing from various electronic sub-genres – never quite giving you the kick, climax or gulp of air you thought you needed or asked for. Heavy with bass, breaks, mesmerizing melodies and rhythmic vocals, Soumaya’s sets distort and disturb in a way that’s strangely satisfying.