Gabrielle Kwarteng

Based in New York, Gabrielle Kwarteng, an American-Ghanaian DJ, has developed a mixing practice at the intersection of the city’s club, queer and underground scenes. Active since the late 2010s, she constructs sets that move between house, techno, disco, electro, dub, broken beat and bass music, with a central emphasis on percussive rhythms, warm textures and a clear dancefloor-oriented progression. Her trajectory has been shaped through clubs, radio and festivals, where she advocates an open approach to electronic music attentive to the ties between dance archives, contemporary productions and diasporic circulation. The way she blends rare cuts, club classics and more recent tracks gives Gabrielle Kwarteng a DJ language founded on continuity rather than on momentary effects. Alongside her work on the dancefloor, her practice is rooted in a New York cultural context in which programming, musical research and community scenes play a significant role.