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Willy Soul

33 listings in 12 named rooms, over the last three years · one ahead

also plays Berlin — 2 nights

Willy Soul is a Brooklyn-based producer, DJ, MC, and music curator known for his signature blend of funk-driven energy, global underground knowledge, and dancefloor storytelling. A central figure in both NYC nightlife and the global roller-skating scene, he has held residencies at Good Room and Public Records, alongside his long-running warehouse series Funky Seshwa. He also serves as Music Director, curator, and resident DJ for Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace at Rockefeller Center, Xanadu Roller Arts in Bushwick, and Europe’s flagship skate festival, Skate Love Barcelona—shaping the sound and spirit of every space he touches.

In 2025, he joined Louie Vega’s Funki Cadets producer collective on Vega Records, debuting with their collaboration “Feelin’ Good Tonight.” His next project, NY/CDMX, with Mexican electronic artist Pahua, is set for release on TheJazzDiaries in Summer 2026. Hard to pin down, Willy is a seasoned selector with a deep affinity for diverse sounds and movements, moving fluidly from psychedelic, Latin, and Far East selections to jazz, minimal, and peak-time dancefloor cuts.

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Willy has toured internationally, playing everything from gritty warehouse parties in NYC and Detroit to historic theaters in Ibiza, skate jams along the coast of Portugal, beaches in Naples, and major global platforms like Amsterdam Dance Event and Miami Music Week. He has shared the stage with icons including Kaytranada, Moodymann, Louie Vega, and DJ Harvey. A fixture in the world’s leading hi-fi listening bars—Dante’s HiFi (Miami), Brilliant Corners (London), Public Records (NYC), and Sans Soleil (Montréal—he is widely recognized as a trusted record digger with a deep love for jazz, Latin, Afro, and dance music roots, extending into forward-thinking sounds.

Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.

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The nights

2026

2025 — 7 nights
2024 — 12 nights
2023 — 2 nights

Their rooms

One tick a night, on the one axis this page has — Aug 2023, where the listings start, to Jan 2027, the last night anybody has announced. The shaded end has not happened yet.

Aug 2023Jan 2027

Once each: Jupiter Disco, 314 Scholes, MAD Radio NYC, Moondog Hifi, public records, Eris, Earthly Delights and The Boiler @ ELM Foundation. Two of the 34 listings never named a room, and are not counted as one.

Who they play with

Counted from the bills themselves, over bills of twelve names or fewer. A pair's count includes a night that is announced and not yet played; where there is one, the row says when.

  • Disgonutsacross five rooms · May 2024 – Jun 20265 nights
  • Arjun ShahElsewhere ×2 · Jun 2026 – Oct 20262 nights
  • MIRZAElsewhere ×2 · Jun 2026 – Oct 20262 nights
  • Omer Milan unnamed room ×1, Elsewhere ×1 · Oct 2024 – Oct 20262 nights
  • Tomas StationH0L0 ×1, Xanadu ×1 · Apr 2026 – May 20262 nights
  • NickodemusDead Letter No. 9 ×1, Xanadu ×1 · Dec 2024 – May 20262 nights
  • Arianna Danaean unnamed room ×1, Elsewhere ×1 · Jun 2024 – Oct 20252 nights
  • Kristine Barillian unnamed room ×1, Elsewhere ×1 · Jun 2024 – Oct 20252 nights
6 more, 2 nights each
  • DJ Big BobXanadu ×2 · Nov 2024 – Oct 20252 nights
  • Funky SeshwaXanadu ×2 · Nov 2024 – Dec 20242 nights
  • Gian-Paulan unnamed room ×1, Elsewhere ×1 · Jun 2024 – Oct 20242 nights
  • Keniaan unnamed room ×1, Elsewhere ×1 · Jun 2024 – Oct 20242 nights
  • La FortuneDead Letter No. 9 ×1, Eris ×1 · May 2024 – Sep 20242 nights
  • RaphaDead Letter No. 9 ×1, Eris ×1 · May 2024 – Sep 20242 nights

On record

Every one of these resolves on Discogs; the ones that do not are not printed. What Discogs files them under is not printed either — its label column carries mix series as if they were imprints.

The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. The records are Discogs'. Nothing on this page was written for it.