Heidi Lawden
also plays Berlin — 1 night
UK born Heidi Lawden is a DJ, Producer and Promoter. Embedded in and inspired by London's club and early rave scene since her teenage years she has lived the world of dance music ever since; a lifer. She worked for and hosted nights at London’s earliest dance music clubs inc Blue Note, Gardening Club & Ministry of Sound where she named and founded it’s most successful night Rulin. Based in L.A, she is a truly international talent who DJs at the worlds finest clubs, underground raves and festivals. Heidi’s deep knowledge, and eclectic style fluidly combines House, Techno, wonky baselines, synth-laden left field cuts & Disco oddities to create a world of her own, she is skilled at reading a room and has an immense range. Heidi has gained the respect and admiration of her peers through her knowledge, skill and infectious excitement both in and outside the booth. A true crossover DJ playing gay and straight parties, she invariably promotes fellow female, queer and gender fluid artists through both her party bookings and radio shows with a commitment to elevating dance music, and it's global community. When it comes to her DJ sets, she's 'not a planner' and likes to move with the crowd feeding off their energy always becoming a crowd and tastemakers favorite. Heidi excels given lengthy sets night into morning, she relishes and thrives given the opportunity for an all nighter, she’s clocked up 10+ hr long sets solo. Panorama Bar, Basement NYC, Klymax, Sunday Sunday MX, Kaiku, Gabriela, Night Tales, Jolene, Public Records, Pikes, Horsemeat Disco, Cocktail De Amore, Glitterbox, Bears In Space, Coachella, Wildwood, Kala, Gala, Love International, Skyline, Sunset Campout, Glastonbury, Daytrip, Beat Hotel, EDC, iiiPoints, Factory 93, Hï Ibiza are among the clubs, festivals and parties on her DJ schedule. She partners with Masha Mar in the respected Take It Outside party in her adopted hometown, the duo have hosted & DJ’s alongside everyone from DJ Harvey, Honey Dijon, Ash Lauryn,Paula Tape, Gerd Jansen, Avalon Emerson Eris Drew & Octo Octa, Massimiliano Pagliara, DJ Minx to name a few.
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Heidi has released tracks under aliases Locussolus & Heidi Höven as well as her own name on her label Extra Sensory, she has released & remixed for labels including Heavenly, International Feel, most recently with Lovefingers for a David Holmes release. A Locussolus track she cowrote, featuring her vocals is in the Searchlight movie, Greatest Hits. She has music supervised and sound designed for LVMH, commercials, tv, fashion shows and soundtracked boutiques & restaurants worldwide. A series of Heineken ads aired during Super Bowl went on to win a prestigious Cannes award.
Heidi collaborates with the ESP Institute & DJ Harvey by day, is a human and animal rights advocate, as well as earth/climate activist, she has a liter of rescue animals of her own. A somewhat reclusive homebody between tours she spends her days in the studio working on material and edits primarily for her own DJ sets, somewhat media shy preferring to let her music, parties and occasional socials posts advocacy do the talking. Heidi truly comes alive in the DJ booth, she knows more than she shows, and is open and generous with her time behind the scenes to support burgeoning talent, Heidi has been and remains a key figure both as a DJ and in the background of the global electronic music scene.
Their Resident Advisor profile, in full and unedited.
Records out on Smalltown Supersound, International Feel, ESP Institute and Heavenly Recordings. — their own list on Resident Advisor
The nights
- Sat 31 OctH0L0their 2nd night · H0L0 NYC, ReSolute1,083 going
2026
- Sat 19 SepBASEMENTtheir 4th night · basement ny
- Sat 1 AugSignalfirst time · Signal NYC, nyc rave girls
- Sat 6 JunBASEMENTtheir 3rd night · WRECKEDnyc, basement ny
- Sat 3 Janpublic recordstheir 2nd night
2025 — 3 nights
- Fri 21 Nov 2025H0L0first time · H0L0 NYC, Hot For You
- Fri 23 May 2025BASEMENTtheir 2nd night · basement ny
- Fri 7 Mar 2025public recordsfirst time
2024 — 5 nights
- Fri 20 Dec 2024BASEMENTfirst time · basement ny
- Sun 17 Mar 2024The Parkside Loungefirst time · Hot For You
- Sat 17 Feb 2024Gabrielafirst time
- Fri 16 Feb 2024House of Yestheir 2nd night
- Sat 3 Feb 2024Innessfirst time · Disco Chalet
2023 — 3 nights
- Sun 10 Dec 2023Knockdown Centerfirst time
- Fri 27 Oct 2023House of Yesfirst time
- Thu 21 Sep 2023Elsewherefirst time
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.
- BASEMENTDec 2024 – Sep 20264 nights
- public recordsMar 2025 – Jan 20262 nights
- House of YesOct 2023 – Feb 20242 nights
Once each: Signal, H0L0, The Parkside Lounge, Gabriela, Inness, Knockdown Center and Elsewhere.
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.
- Masha MarH0L0 ×1, Knockdown Center ×1, and 1 more room · Dec 2023 – Nov 20253 nights
- Elle DeeBASEMENT ×2 · May 2025 – Sep 20262 nights
- Kim AnhBASEMENT ×2 · May 2025 – Sep 20262 nights
- Ron Like HellBASEMENT ×2 · Jun 2026 – Sep 20262 nights
- LovefingersInness ×1, Knockdown Center ×1 · Dec 2023 – Feb 20242 nights
The nights, the rooms and the bills are the listings themselves. The biography, the labels and the photograph are Resident Advisor's. Nothing on this page was written for it.