Biography
Suze Ijó started a degree in social work but quickly decided to focus full-time on music and nightlife. She worked for three years at Clone Records in Rotterdam and was part of the former collective First Floor. Alongside Carista, she curates a podcast series for United Identities. The sound she presents at parties full-time is close to her heart. In recent years, Suze Ijó has performed in South America, Oceania, and at European hotspots like Panorama Bar, De School, Lux Fragíl, Kaiku, and Dekmantel Festival. Despite her busy schedule, Suze Ijó's sets reflect intention and focus every night. She envelops the space with a sensory vividness, turning her show into a collective, physical event, involving everyone present.
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House as a mood
In a time when tempos are ever accelerating, house DJ Suze Ijó takes a different direction. In her lush sets, rhythm blends with warmth. She mixes classic vinyl with modern tracks to create a unique atmosphere filled with deep, soulful, and mesmerizing beats. With a melting pot of tracks from West Africa, the West Indies, and Latin America, Suze Ijó highlights the non-Western tradition of soulful house and funk.
For Suze Ijó, house DJ embodies not just a genre of dance music, but also a mood. A way of moving, an ethic, and a cultivation of the spirit. House is a feeling for Suze, not necessarily a musical structure based on BPM range. Growing up in Rotterdam, she was surrounded by hip-hop, Caribbean music, and Eurodance. As a hostess and booker in local nightclubs, she developed her taste for the genres she frequently plays today. She blends deep-cut R&B with warm, pulsating soul house. Poly-rhythms, vocals, and timbres overlap in a deep, transhistorical groove.
