Spring/Summer 2026 DJ Dates Announced
London-based DJ Almass Badat announces a series of live performances across May and June 2026, inviting you to experience her sound “up close, in the flesh and on the dance floor” this summer.
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Blending global roots and rhythms with dance-floor hits, Almass Badat’s upcoming run includes sets at
Ariapita Social Club, Dishoom‘s Permit Room in Portobello, Ladbroke Hall and an all-night-long at
Oslo Hackney.
This spring/summer series also features two special Bristol dates at The BBE Store as well as Lost Horizons in Bristol, where Almass Badat will be joined by Melbourne-based DJ MzRizk.
Embrace a connected, feel-good summer with a focus on unity and shared experience through music.
More dates and details are set to be announced in the coming weeks.
Attendees with physical access requirements are encouraged to get in touch at least two weeks in advance via: almass@almassbadat.com
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Almass returns to Ariapita with a set that blends soca, dancehall, bashment and reggae with South Asian, South American and SWANA sounds. Tickets are now available on Resident Advisor for this year’s fete, which opens with an optional all-levels konpa dance class followed by a two-floor party.
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Almass Badat takes to the decks while you sip strong cocktails and sample the snacks, chaats, picky bits to punchy jazz, funk, groove and classic. Stay late, open to all. Booking a table is highly recommended.
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Enjoy jazz, minimal house and global electronic rhythms from Almass alongside fresh and seasonal food from Pollini, one of the UK's best Italian restaurants. Gambero Rosso three forchette award. Booking a table in advance is recommended.
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Bring your stamina to 5 hours of Almass Badat at the legendary Oslo in Hackney. Spinning new discoveries with classic hits in her childhood borough, this one will be special.
Ticket info coming soon.
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Almass spins at one of London’s premiere late night destinations. Watch this space.
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Did someone say international? Keep your eyes peeled.
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Almass invites MzRizk for a B2B set at The BBE Store, known for its intimate atmosphere, exceptional sound system and inclusive, cross-generational community of music lovers. Look forward to soul-rooted dance music with global club culture all night long.
This event is free to attend.
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Almass teams up with Lost Horizons in Bristol to present Mass Movement, where everyone is welcome and music is the answer. More TBA. Watch this space.
Dive deeper with Almass Badat, the visual artist, DJ and cultural producer.
ARTIST
Almass Badat is a visual artist. Beginning with paint, she then ventured into portrait photography, film and collage. Almass is a recipient of the Arts Council DYCP fund (2024) and is currently practicing Art & Design at the Royal College of Art (2026).
DJ/RADIO
Almass hosts Mass Movement monthly on Voices Radio, a two-hour curated live radio show presenting research, roots and rhythm. You can also hear Almass in conversation on the What is this Behaviour? podcast, available on British Airways long-haul flights as well as Spotify and Apple Podcast. Read her DJ bio here.
CULTURAL PRODUCER
Producing, curating and creating across music, tech and art industries, Almass connects people and culture through memorable live experiences. Visit British Underground, where she produces international music and tech showcases at SXSW Austin, Folk Alliance International, WOMEX and AmericanaFest.
Almass regularly mentors developing creative professionals and is a member of the SXSW London Jury, the BRITS Voting Academy and is a member of the Soho House committee since 2017.
Notable collaborators include: Amazon Music, Barbican Centre, BBC, Boiler Room, British Council, British Podcast Awards, DAZED, Dialled In, Dishoom, Elrow, Fender, Folk Alliance International, Glastonbury festival, ICA, Johnnie Walker, Kérastase, MacMillan Cancer Support, Netflix, NTS, SONY, Southbank Centre, SXSW Austin, SXSW London, The Science Gallery, Trippin World, V&A, We Out Here festival, WOMEX, WorldwideFM & more.
ABOUT
EARLY LIFE
Almass Badat was born in North London to a British-Indian mother (Safirah Irani) and a Zambian-Indian father. She was raised in Lusaka, where her Gujarati-Muslim paternal grandparents migrated to and where ngoma (Zambian drums), African wildlife and Indo-African food, dress and culture shaped her formative years. While her peers were moving towards the ‘dot.com boom’, much of her childhood was spent outdoors - either in the playground her father landscaped or on road trips to Victoria Falls, Kafue National Park and Kariba Dam, opening routes for her to Zimbabwe and South Africa. Almass was nurtured by Safirah to be creative, confident and curious and by her father to be entrepreneurial, sharp and academically driven. Her early life was vibrant against the Central African landscape and shaped by second wave Indian-African migration, yet lived in the shadow of her father’s violence.
At 10 years old, Almass’s mother was rescued by the British High Commission and brought back to Hackney, London. Almass followed with her younger brothers one week later, returning to the family neighbourhood where her maternal grandparents had eventually settled, her mother had grown up and she had visited in school holidays. While her family life was fragmenting, Almass’s reintroduction to the West as a young South Asian and Muslim girl was marked by a single moment that shook the world, 9/11.
While her mother found her footing, adjusting to communal living spaces, colder weather and new cultural customs proved challenging for Almass. Almass socialised with her peers, learned about the multicultural food, language and new people that surrounded her and absorbed popular culture across hip hop, R&B, grime, garage, reggae, indie, rock and pop. Alongside this, her enrolment into evening and weekend classes at madrasa (a place of study for young Muslim children) and Safirah’s exploration of the South Asian Underground became parallel pathways into understanding British Asian identity. As her multifaceted diasporic identity became more apparent in the West, it was at the tender age of ten that she bravely began living authentically despite the lingering impact of 9/11 and feeling othered because of her Zambian upbringing and Indian Muslim roots. Almass embraced a new world: the rich warmth and bubbling streets of working-class Hackney.
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