

My DJ identity, bartendESS/bartendERS, is a music bartender who moved their mixing lab from Shanghai to Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Starting from bedroom and subway since early 2020 lockdown time, I enjoyed collecting everyday and archaic materials from actual & digital life to mix into a strong cocktail with open-form genres, rhythms, and vocals. Flavored with instruments improvising, this drink of sound has been trance-like and intoxicating, in museums, clubs and through radios, for those who are dancing, journeying, meditating, or simply feeling. Recently I like to mix a set of contemporary dance beats and traditional musical acts from China and around the Pacific to connect with people in the southern hemisphere and I would like to share this music drink at Newtown Festival 2025.
