Raised in Italy’s free-party and noise scenes and cutting her teeth in hip-hop open mics in Rome, Fukinsei builds DJ sets in tangled narratives of footwork, jungle, hardcore, rave, and dub ground against jagged, broken flows. Her work is a map of shadows and glints – a journey through sound systems smothered in grit. The founder of Fukstep, a project and label built on cross-pollination and hybridisation, Fukinsei embraces the new schools stirring up bass, atmosphere, and underground trouble.

She also co-runs the pirate collective and label Reyetto Tapes, a space for DIY research and experimental labels. Her own experimental investigations take form in »Innesta,« a radical research project blending traditional Sicilian oral practices with percussive cut-up rhythms and often staged in unusual spaces. She’s performed in sacred churches, museums, and heritage sites, a playfulness of acoustics and history along with an injection of dancefloor energy. Excavating her roots, she pushes them through the fractured prisms of bass Nowness.