Live at the Laser Dome: KEXP DJ in Residence

PacSci and KEXP’s Live at the Laser Dome: KEXP DJ in Residence is excited to welcome Wo’ Pop’ Darek Mazzone and Jyoti B. Fly for our summer residency (June, July, and August).

Every three months on the first Wednesday of the month, a different KEXP DJ will curate a series of monthly playlists for the Laser Dome. The select DJ will then perform a live set accompanying the laser performance once a month at the Laser Dome.

About Wo’ Pop

Wo’ Pop is a 3-hour look into “Modern Global Music” because it encompasses all the current musical genres while being deeply engaged in the sounds and ideas of each city or region.

African Kwaito, Bhangra and Bollywood from Bombay and London, Mbalax from Senegal, Ragga Dub from Brixton and Tokyo, and anything else that producers create from the six corners of the world.

DJ Darek and Jyoti have the great pleasure of interviewing these artists and playing their tracks before they go public. It’s a great show that always surprises and hopefully inspires you to collect stamps (passport stamps that is).

DJs

Darek Mazzone

Born in Gdansk, Poland, Darek spent the first 9 years of his life not knowing a word of English. He first heard of KEXP when it was KCMU in 1992. His car broke down outside of town and found himself in the U District and Riz was on the air in the mid afternoon. He was completely blown away by the range of music and walked across campus to the station and, in a sense, never left.

Recently I’ve been working on getting indie music out of China to a broader audience through Wo’Pop and have had the pleasure of being on the nominating committee for the Indie award show in China, Abuidan, and Interviewing Polish artists at the OFF Festival in Katowice, Poland.

Jyoti B. Fly

Born in London to Indian immigrants from East Africa, Jyoti was immersed in Bollywood soundtracks, classical Indian music, and weekends at an Indian arts school studying Carnatic music and South Indian dance. But it was R&B, hip-hop, and pop — and later, UK house, garage, and jungle — that shaped her sound and gave a space to explore music on her own terms.

Her inspirations are ever-expanding — electronic, funk, jazz, psych, hip-hop, and global grooves — woven into sets that challenge how we hear, feel, and shape the world. Her hope is that when you listen to me DJ, listeners are transported on a journey through moods, cultures, and rhythms in a state of flow. Her hope is that listeners feel represented by Wo’ Pop, regardless of cultural background.