Having been Oakland’s greatest stored secret for years, it was throughout lockdown that Bored Lord captured imaginations throughout the pond together with her off-the-wall pop edits and luscious breaks, an endeavour that rightfully positioned her in our Breakthrough Artists of 2021. So in 2022, with our nightlife areas nicely and really open for enterprise — it was time for Bored Lord to point out the world the way it’s carried out behind the decks, and blimey, did she. Setting tongues a-flutter together with her heady mixture of gritty UK bass, kitsch archive bangers and face-scrunching synth slammers, she’s graced the levels of a number of the most cherished underground areas each Stateside and in Europe, together with White Hotel, Berghain, Nowadays, Unsound, De School, Good Room and extra. Within the digital sphere she’s been spreading her wings too, with streams on HÖR and Keep Hush inspiring FOMO in even the tetchiest of hearts — whereas a stable providing of mixes on FACT and Honcho have had us all digging by means of listings to seek out out when she’s taking part in close to us. Regardless of a stratospheric rise within the final 12 months, Daria has remained true to herself; with units infused wholly with that particular Bored Lord combo — half blink-and-you’ll-miss it referentialism, half queer euphoria and half buoyant hedonism. All mixed, have made her one of the vital thrilling DJs to observe this 12 months.
