Brooklyn’s KXAH steps up for the 4th episode of our second series, delivering one of the most stylistically cohesive sets to grace the Lettonne stage yet. Born in St. Petersburg, with roots in Ukraine, KXAH cut her teeth with Boston’s Infra collective, quickly settling into a style that prioritises textures, distortion, prickly ambience and brain-rinsing percussion, a sound which is perfectly at home in New York.

In 2022 she co-founded the Boston-based Aversion record label and party series, a genreless exploration of sensory focused music and events, like the experimental rave held in a fighting gym called "Fighters Not Lovers". A trained dancer, KXAH’s finely tuned instinct for what makes bodies move has endeared her to crowds all over New York, including at Basement, Paragon, Bossa Nova Civic Club, and H0l0, as well as Leland City Club in Detroit and Domicile in Miami, just to name a few.

The intensity level in KXAH’s CENTER BOOTH set is a touch different from what we’re used to hearing her play in those dark, sweaty rooms. A slow-building journey from the start, her dense rhythms are stitched together so neatly that the set seems to unspool as if it's one long track. Its energy gradually becomes more urgent, with layers of synths that spring forth like rubber bands and literal bells and whistles, fomenting images of cars being assembled on the factory line. When shimmering synths appear and then multiply mid-set, the effect is of a single star tracing the night sky, and then; constellations. Towards the end, crunchy ribbons of percussion conjur crushed soda cans under heavy boots before breakbeats and ethereal vocals finally bring the set to a close.