Elena Colombi operates in the cracks between styles, where rhythm mutates and atmosphere turns volatile. A set might swirl in the drift of cosmic psychedelia, slice through jungle’s serrated syncopations, and erupt in the stark glare of post-punk, spoken word, or even a forgotten ballad. The through-line is rupture—those sudden breaks and impossible turns that jolt the room into new focus. All emotions are welcome, as long as they are real and strong.

A long-time NTS resident and even longer-time clubber, Colombi has honed a language shaped as much by cinema, theory, and aesthetics as by dancefloor urgency. Their mixes work less like linear sequences than dérives—free drifts across hidden histories and half-imagined futures, threaded with avant-garde intuition. In the club, this approach sharpens into intensity: polyrhythms collide, industrial mechanics buckle, and techno splinters into unrecognizable forms. The style is restless rather than seamless—alive, febrile, spring-loaded. Dancers are kept in suspension, locked into a state of vigilance that turns itself addictive.

That same impulse feeds into their production work and live performances, often in collaboration with the Tutto Questo Sentire collective, and into Osàre! Editions, the label they founded in 2019 and continue to grow. True to its name—Italian for “boldness”—the imprint traces unexpected lines between unearthed 1990s darkwave and forward-tilted mutations of the contemporary underground. Rumors swirl of a new venue in the works—what will the next venture be?

Whether closing a festival stage—from Unsound to Nuits Sonores, Dekmantel, Dripping Panorama Bar, ADE, or Field Maneuvers—or igniting intensity in an intimate room in your future favourite DIY space, Colombi creates experiences that are immersive, visceral, and unpredictable. By blending styles, histories, and textures, they transform listening into adventure, their sets a pulse-driven chronicle of sound, motion, and lived experience—rigorous, ecstatic, and entirely their own.