Malissa

Founder of Sisu and ever-evolving digger, Malissa (she/her) has always been enamoured with dance music culture and history, and has sought to make it more accessible to anyone who shares that love. Malissa’s sound spans both new and old, with a preference towards more modern productions. Her sets are energetic, taking inspiration from her own lively personality.

Starting her journey whilst living in London, subsequently starting up Sisu and moving to Edinburgh, where she became a long-standing resident for the collective EPiKA, for whom she continues to play to this day. After moving back to her place of birth, Liverpool, Malissa saw a slow but steady surge of bookings across England and Europe.

‍Malissa’s other endeavours do not stop at SISU; she has headed a number of projects around the social impact of dance music culture, such as her exhibition ‘The Afters’, which explores after-party culture, and more recently, an intergenerational archival project in collaboration with Rule of Threes and Sefton Library called Queue up and Dance. This explores the historic Quadrant Park which was the UK’s first all-night rave.