Kairogen is a DJ and producer from Glasgow. She holds residencies with Slam’s Return To Mono at Sub Club, femme techno night Epika and is a regular at Headset. Her DJ sets encompass a wide range of music throughout the house, techno and electro spheres.

The name Kairogen stems from the combination of two words: 'Kairos,’ the Greek meaning for 'the right moment' and 'gen,' meaning to generate or create.

Waiting for the right moment has long been a common theme in her creative journey, having initially stemmed from her time in art school, where, through creating her own compositions to accompany her own installations and paintings, she was able to explore the connection between what can be seen and what can be heard, which in turn further deepened her fascination with electronic music as an art form.

This then led to frequent visits to Glasgow, mainly to attend the revered Sub Club, a cultural institution of the city, where she would later find herself working. Making the transition from the dance floor to the bar was something that allowed her to take a step back from the smoke and the strobes and gave her the opportunity to gain a broader perspective on how a club night unfolds. Being able to see how both respected residents and esteemed guests can open a room, build tension, and switch energy while keeping one eye on how dancers react and interact with what is around them served as the key to shaping the fundamentals that have stuck with her on her path to date.

Having fully immersed herself in this type of environment, the next gradual step was to channel her own experiences into DJing. Creating and curating her own radio show 'Space-Time' gave her the ideal platform to showcase some of the sounds she is drawn to, based around blissful ambient and hazy downtempo, while maintaining the same cerebral depth when flowing through both BPMs and genres. Along with this, releases on both Soma and Space Textures demonstrated her ever-evolving production skills to a wider audience. It’s easy to see why, soon after, opportunities to play out presented themselves, which she has since seized with both hands.

Initial warm-up slots at illustrious nights at Sub Club and Pressure turned heads and elevated her demand as a selector—key moments since vary from handing over to Avalon Emerson to all-night-long sets in her native city, from delivering soaring, peak-time techno at Return to Mono, where she is now a resident, to serving glitchy, sci-fi-infused 'IDM' in Bristol at a Headset party—the list continues to grow. On the mix front, stellar contributions to outlets such as MNMT and Slam Radio, alongside her and Niamh Jobson’s monthly 'Dub Series' broadcast, have been well-received and further cement her reputation as one to watch.

Developing her own tastes and understanding through an ever-expanding wealth of first-hand experience, not just through DJing, but also through her current freelancing in areas such as lighting, sound and label artwork, has been influential in crafting her own unique soundscape. Kairogen’s strength lies in her own versatility, preferring to play what feels right for the moment while remaining willing to adapt to any given situation. Not limited by the constraints of genre, she has the ability to flow between the conventional and unconventional, where you may just be as likely to hear a soulful, floor-focused Dave Angel cut from thirty years ago as you are to hear the latest avant-garde offering from Delsin Records. 

This open-minded approach, contrasted with her single-minded belief in exploring the deepest, dreamiest corners of each record she plays, creates a musical narrative that needs to be heard to be believed.