Kailyn Crabbe

Comfortable playing everywhere from tiny DIY raves to densely packed club backrooms or glossy large-scale doofs, her sets hone in on a communal sense of elation, wrapping dancefloors in a haze of hypnagogic house, flurries of tribal percussion and wonky techno. She’s held space alongside luminaries like Ben UFO, Objekt and D. Tiffany and is the preeminent dance music expert at triple j, where she hosts and programs Mix Up and the Friday Mix, platforming the sounds of the underground on national radio while shining a light on the diverse and exciting community she’s deeply couched in. Kailyn also heads up dance music platforms Crab Claw and Club Jewelz— the latter is a free DJ course for women and gender-diverse crew that morphed into an occasional party and radio show on Naarm institutions Skylab and Area3000. This passion for uplifting her peers has seen her teach alongside DJ Sarah of IN2STELLAR for MPavillions DJ 101. She’s very likely to be found front-left on dancefloors around Australia on most weekends (if she’s not in the booth or cosied up in the studio).