Project Description
YAEJI
@ OXFORD ART FACTORY
02/12/18
(Live Review)
Reviewer: Yasmin Thus
Who is YAEJI you ask? YAEJI is literally my new favourite person. Kathy Yaeji Lee otherwise known as YAEJI is a Korean-American Producer, DJ and Singer and she’s got plenty of bangers coming for you in the future. Her first huge hit ‘Raingurl‘ was released back in late 2017 and since then has taken 2018 by storm, so I just had to come and check her out.
Of course she picked my favourite venue in Sydney, Oxford Art Factory and the only way to explain the evening is to say that it was just such a VIBE!!!! Having performed the night before at the iconic Opera House, I bet it would of been a huge change to come down to little OAF! We all crammed into the small band room, ready for what was a truly sweaty Sunday evening.
The build of her set was amazing, it was so ambient yet so exciting, I couldn’t wait. Her first number for the evening is “Feel It Out” and its sick, the crowd chants along to the chorus lyrics ‘Shit is crazy/Shit is Yaeji’. Just really got us all going for the rest of the evening. One awesome thing I could say about Yaeji is her ability to properly interact with the crowd, I’ve found that its not very often that a producer will jump off the stage, sing during their set and bounce back to DJing all in one go – continuously!
Each song sort of fades into the next, not long before my new favourite of hers comes on “Feelings Change“, its gorgeous, even better than what I imagined it to be as she sways and sings. Its like listening to someone going through a break up, but its beautiful, I wish more breakups sounded like that. It’s coming to the end of the evening when she starts to rile up as she the audience, and you can tell as she continues to mixes songs together that she’s about to drop towards ‘Raingurl’. The crowd just goes burzek!!!!
She gives this sweet little speech saying she was so impressed with Sydney’s dance music culture – who said Sydney nightlife was dead?! She finishes the evening with a rad remix of Charlie XCX‘s song ‘Focus‘.
Rating 8/10.
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