MALDITA VAINAProfile

For Maldita Vaina, a Dominican-Sudanese, trans non-binary DJ, music and sound are technologies that have sustained BIPOC stories and histories often left unwritten. Blending and mixing represent an opportunity to create counter-narratives, activated by movement. Maldita Vaina's sets juxtapose Caribbean riddims, African electronica, and Afro and Arab diasporic club sounds. Centering Black, trans, and queer producers, their sets are playful, high energy and percussive; polyrhythmic tracks interlaced with deep Dembow cuts, Dominican Palos, and Gaga. They turn dancefloors across the world into spaces of fugitivity and collective reimagination.

Maldita Vaina's mixes have aired on Rinse France, Oroko Radio, Foundation FM, and Crop Radio. They have performed across the world, from Elsewhere in Brooklyn to Sala Sol in Madrid and Dalston Superstore in London, joining parties and collectives including Popola (London), Lokufest (Donostia), All Black Queer Techno (London), Felt Sound System (London), Gyrate (Chicago), Amor Digital (San Francisco), Selectas (Madrid), and La Jungla (Houston).