Bar Laika presents Playback 0032 with upsammy and Emily Jeanne

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, May 20th from 7pm for the thirty-second edition of Playback with upsammy and Emily Jeanne. Both artists will feature selections from their albums, remixes, and collaborations ahead of their club sets at Public Records on May 22nd.

upsammy (Thessa Torsing) is an Amsterdam-based DJ, producer, and multidisciplinary artist. Known for her hybrid club sound, she blends abstract techno, electro, and drum & bass with natural field recordings. Having studied Image and Media Technology at the Utrecht University of the Arts, Torsing is intrigued by the rhythms and vibrational qualities of her surroundings–shaping a singular aesthetic that blurs the synthetic–natural divide. As a multidisciplinary artist she researches these interactions through sound, photography and video, explorations which simultaneously influence her music production process. 

She has released albums on labels like PAN (Seismo w/ Valentina Magaletti), Dekmantel, AD 93 and holds residencies at NTS Radio and Garage Noord. Her gift for full-length composition is showcased through her albums (Wild Chamber, 2019) on Nous’Klaer Audio, (Zoom, 2020) on Dekmantel, (Germ in a Population of Buildings, 2023) on PAN, and (Strange Meridians, 2024) on topo2. 

Emily Jeanne is a DJ and producer working in the spaces between experimental electronic music and physical, dance floor-focused sound. Her sets and productions move fluidly between broken rhythms, textured atmospheres and more direct club forms, balancing depth with momentum. Through her own label quỳnh and releases such as Call Of The Sea and Past Through Desire, The former was widely noted for its hypnotic, polyrhythmic

and aquatic qualities, while the latter pushes further into tense, coiled and intricately detailed terrain, described by critics as offering the dance-floor “more than cheap thrills,” favoring atmosphere, tension and long-form development over immediate payoff. Together, these releases clarify a sound that is as suited to late-night club rooms as it is to more open-ended, experimental environments.