Elkka

From the sweat-slicked walls of queer clubs to the Chanel catwalk, sun-downing sets from Ibiza to New York, the Radio 1 airwaves, and pages of the New Yorker: tuning into Elkka’s beat opens up entire worlds. Elkka’s 2024 debut album Prism of Pleasure was a proclamation of the creative values that the Cardiff-born artist has diligently crafted over a decade, making her an all-feeling, genre-oscillating producer, DJ, and head of her own label, femme culture. Written over 18 months, the 10-track record brought a sense of rawness, her vocals to the forefront. “I wanted it to be a statement of intent, reflective of who I am and what’s important to me,” she explains. While central track “Make Me”, an anthem set to undulating, glistening synths, reverberated across a summer of festival slots, the heartfelt “Right Here” was featured on Chanel’s spring summer 2025 show soundtrack. Prism of Pleasure lives on as a FLINTA-focused, steamy club night series of the same name, while her curation and penchant for queer party-starting continues with a four-night residency at Phonox, where Elkka plays with Lsdxoxo, CC:Disco, and DJ Fuckoff. From the start, Elkka has pieced together her identity slowly and curiously. Building on early pop obsessions and sacking off the ‘safe route’ for life by dropping out of university to play and dance around London’s queer club scene in her 20s, she has embedded herself in an ecosystem of women, non-binary, and queer artists. Early EPs like Every Body Is Welcome and I Miss Raving glowed with energy and took root in dance floor liberation, growing into the now signature, richly textured soundscapes of Euphoric Melodies (2021) that blend emotional electronica and glossy synths with a wisp of intimate vocals. As a DJ, she’s known for galvanizing the clubbers on the barriers with free-wheeling but taut-feeling sets that travel from buzzing Detroit techno to recontextualized pop, Chicago and New York house classics. On stage, she’s physical and hypnotic to watch. Mixes, like her DJ-Kicks contribution and Radio 1 residency keep up that spirit, with her Essential Mix bagging Mix of the Year in 2021. In June 2025, Elkka released Xpression, a four-track EP via Method 808 that leaned deeper into club territory once more with exhilarating bass and energetic, thrumming percussion. “This EP is the first time I’ve really drawn a line between myself as a DJ, producer, and dancer,” she says. With features in The Guardian, The New Yorker, and covers for Gay Times and Disco Pogo, Elkka continues not just to unspool her own sound, but her personal, longspanning narrative artist arc. 2025 and beyond is all the more purposeful: “My priorities have shifted, I’ve settled into my career. I want to play places I love to be in, for people and communities I want to play for.” That means more and more joyously queer, open-minded crowds. “It’s been quieter in some ways, but I’m making the music I want to soundtrack these parties. That’s so fulfilling. It makes the best version of me as an artist, DJ, and producer.” Now, songwriting is a long-term focus—for herself and for others—and she’s embracing the analog grit of old synths to explore future music. Her DJing has evolved, appreciating softer, slower journeys on the decks that will culminate in a selection of considered parties thrown throughout the rest of the year. “I want to make memories for people,” she says astutely. With each euphoric crescendo, dig in the crate, and swirl of the hips, Elkka comes armed with pop’s heart-opening horizons and the transformative power of the club.