Founder of SISU and ever-evolving digger, Malissa has always been enamoured with dance music culture and history, and has always sought to make it more accessible to anyone who shares that love in any way she can. Malissa’s sound spans both new and old, with a preference towards more modern productions. Her sets are energetic, taking inspiration from her own lively personality.

Starting her journey whilst living in London starting up Sisu and moving to Edinburgh, where she became a long-standing resident for the collective EPiKA, for whom she continues to play to this day. Since moving back to her place of birth, Liverpool, Malissa has seen a slow but steady surge of bookings across England and Europe over the past few years. Sharing the booth with the likes of The Ghost, Or:la, and Freakenstein, and further from home playing coveted festivals such as Boomtown and Hideout, it almost feels as if she is standing at the edge of a very exciting boom.

As the founder of SISU, Malissa has cultivated both a community and a platform to educate, inspire, and forge pathways into the national and international music community for aspiring women and non-binary DJs and producers. This roster prides itself on diversity and inclusivity in electronic music, and aims to nurture and showcase those on its roster through events, talks, workshops, and radio shows.

Malissa’s other endeavours do not stop at SISU; she has also headed a number of projects revolving around the social impact of dance music culture, such as her exhibition ‘The Afters’, which explores after-party culture, and more recently, an intergenerational archival project in collaboration with Rule of Threes and Sefton Library called Queue up and Dance. This explores the historic Quadrant Park, which was the UK’s first all-night rave.

This is only the start for Malissa, and with such a pure approach to the electronic music world, truly the sky is her limit.