fka.m4a
also plays Berlin — 11 nights
London born, Berlin based fka.m4a (Jay Jackson) has built a solid reputation in the underground scene with a distinctive blend of euphoric and sensual House music. The London born and Berlin-based DJ has made an impact worldwide with filmed sets amassing over half a million streams online and has played at venues and festivals like Timewarp, Lost Village, Sonar and Panorama Bar, features in Mixmag and Electronic Beats, plus Peggy Gou in his corner as a mentor, his stock is firmly on the rise.
Born in London, music was always front and centre in his family home, his mother playing music to him through headphones while he was still in the womb. Citing acts whose USP was female empowerment as the first music he found for himself, the likes of Spice Girls and Lil Kim were early musical influences, eventually leading him to start DJing on the queer scene in London.
“I was working on the Soho & East London circuit” he says. “I was mainly doing guestlist and hosting but eventually they asked me to DJ and I spent a few years cutting my teeth on that scene.”
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Learning how to work a crowd as a pop DJ, seeing Honey Dijon DJ on his first trip to Berlin in 2016 led him down the rabbit hole of electronic music and led to a shift in his focus.
“I completely fell in love with the storytelling element of her set,” he says. “I spent the next year immersed in dance music culture and started playing the electronic room at queer events.”
Moving to Berlin in 2019, the pandemic quickly put a stop to his burgeoning DJ career before a switch to recording streams from his apartment during covid saw his profile blow up, leading to signing with an agency and bagging his first Panorama Bar set when lockdown lifted.
With an event series in the pipeline and a summer stacked with festival shows from Hï Ibiza to DGTL, fka.m4a has firmly cemented himself as one of the leading artists in the underground space.
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Records out on Nervous Records and Love & Other. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
2026
- Sat 17 OctBASEMENTtheir 4th night · basement ny
- Fri 20 MarBASEMENTtheir 3rd night · basement ny
2025 — 4 nights
- Sat 8 Nov 2025House of Yesfirst time
- Fri 27 Jun 2025TBA - BrooklynMERGE
- Fri 16 May 2025Knockdown Centerfirst time · Pornceptual, SPIELRAUM, Whole - United Queer Festival, Wire Festival
- Sat 8 Mar 2025BASEMENTtheir 2nd night · basement ny
2024 — 1 night
- Sat 2 Nov 2024BASEMENTfirst time · basement ny
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.
- BASEMENTNov 2024 – Oct 20264 nights
Once each: House of Yes and Knockdown Center. One of the 7 listings never named a room, and is 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.
- AMORALBASEMENT ×2 · Nov 2024 – Mar 20262 nights
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