If you're going to name yourself DJ Fuckoff, you'd better have something genuinely interesting to say. Zoe Angelina does, and then some.
According to a profile in Dazed, the New Zealand-born artist grew up with a record shop-owning father who doubled as a local psytrance rave organiser. So while other kids were doing normal kid things, young Zoe was elbow-deep in crates and helping lug sound-system equipment around. As origin stories go, this one absolutely slaps.
The outsider who built her own world
Growing up feeling like she didn't quite fit in, DJ Fuckoff did what all the best artists do - she went wide. Her influences pulled from wildly different directions: Erykah Badu's cosmic soul, the late Gangsta Boo's Memphis rap swagger, and apparently even an architect. That's not a flex most DJs are making in their press bios right now, and it's exactly why she's worth paying attention to.
The result is what she calls "Planet Fucktopia" - a whole worldbuilding exercise wrapped around her DJ sets. It's not just music, it's a deliberate philosophy about who gets to take up space on a dance floor. Spoiler: it's everyone.
Why this actually matters
Club culture has a well-documented gatekeeping problem. Door policies, in-crowd vibes, the unspoken rules about who belongs and who gets a sideways look from the booth - it's exhausting, and it keeps genuinely brilliant nights from being genuinely brilliant.
DJ Fuckoff's whole ethos pushes back against that. The dance floor only works, her logic goes, when it's actually open. Not performatively open. Actually, properly, radically open. It's a simple idea that somehow still feels radical in 2024 Berlin club spaces where cool can sometimes feel like a velvet rope in itself.
Crate-digging as character building
What's compelling here isn't just the politics - it's how organically they seem to come from her background. A kid who grew up in a record shop, at psytrance raves, pulling from hip-hop and soul and architecture, is going to have a fundamentally different relationship to "what music is for" than someone who started DJing from a laptop playlist.
DJ Fuckoff sounds like someone who genuinely believes music is a place, not just a product. And on Planet Fucktopia, apparently, there's room for everybody. Even the people who take three minutes to figure out what to do with their hands on a dance floor. We see you. We're coming too.
