Debit / Yaz Lancaster

Who they are

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  Debit

  New York City · 11 bookings since Sep 2024 · deconstructed Latin club

  “Debit is a composer, producer, and performer whose work spans avant-garde experimentation, global club mutations, and high-impact sound design.”

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  Debit is a composer, producer, and performer whose work spans avant-garde experimentation, global club mutations, and high-impact sound design. Her practice bridges high-concept composition, site-specific art, and visceral club performance, uniting cultural depth with bold sonic experimentation in ways few artists can. Since 2017, she has been a pioneering force in the exportation and recontextualization of Latin American club music, shaping its global reception well before it became a marketable trend. At a time when the sound was still emerging from underground spaces, she pushed it into dialogue with techno, global bass, and experimental electronics, building a blueprint for cross-cultural club innovation that resisted clichés and challenged the global scene’s sonic hierarchy. Her records are research-driven and conceptually rigorous. Animus, System, and The Long Count ,the latter named by The Guardian as the #3 Best Global Album of 2022. She has been recognized by Resident Advisor, Pitchfork, and The Guardian for expanding the vocabulary of electronic music. On the dance floor, Debit’s DJ sets blend Latin-inspired percussive rhythms (guaracha, tribal, raptor house, and Brazilian funk) with techno and bass-heavy grooves. Her fast-cut mixing style, grounded in advanced computer synthesis, creates sets that are as body-moving as they are culturally transformative, connecting underground traditions to forward-looking sound, while performing worldwide at festivals such as Roskilde, Berlin Atonal, Primavera, and MUTEK Montréal/Mexico. In recent years, her focus has expanded to landmark compositions and site-specific works engaging with layered temporalities, historical narratives, and spatial acoustics. These projects have brought her to major art and music institutions, including commissions for the Whitney Museum, Venice Biennale, and TONO Festival. She has presented work and led discussions at Haus der Kunst (Munich), Unsound Festival (Poland), the Audio Engineering Society, and MUTEK.
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  Their RA profile lists Modern Love, Naafi and Kebrada.

  Last at Paragon in Sep · often with Andy Stott, Alima Lee, Rosa Pistola, none of them here that night

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  Yaz Lancaster

  New York City · 14 bookings since May 2025

  “Yaz performs solo sets with violin/voice/electronics that comprise songs, improvisations, and composed music – aptly displayed on their sophomore album AFTER (PTP, 2025), created in residency at Pioneer Works.”

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  Yaz performs solo sets with violin/voice/electronics that comprise songs, improvisations, and composed music – aptly displayed on their sophomore album AFTER (PTP, 2025), created in residency at Pioneer Works. As a DJ, they frequently combine percussive and traditional musics of the global south, Black American dance genres, and hardcore kicks in high-energy club sets – and “literally anything” for the radio in fluid narrative-driven mixes. Yaz has recently performed at Dweller Forever (Public Records), Paragon, The Lot Radio, Nowadays, Trans-Pecos, Mood Ring, The Music Gallery (Toronto), and Gaudeamus Festival (Utrecht), among other spaces in NYC and internationally. Yaz additionally performs as “death ambient” and hardcore DJ b2b project “medium.” in deep collaboration with creative partner gg200bpm. They are a member of communally-active PTP artist collective; and the creator/curator of HEAVY HEARTS performance series celebrating the community and vulnerability in harsh/experimental sonics.
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  often with medium, Bongowattz, Soo Intoit, none of them here that night