Lena Willikens has earned the enviable nickname “A DJ's DJ” thanks to her infinite versatility and the adoration that has been handed down to her from mouth to mouth. Each of his sets is different from the other, and his inexhaustible variation is only the tip of the iceberg of a collection of records accumulated over decades and constantly renewed through a daily practice of listening, connecting the dots and nourishing a constantly expanding vision of the world regarding the possibilities of dancefloor.

The natural, rare conviction in the execution of his art is similar to that of an improvising musician, a painter or a skilled storyteller in the most classic sense of a DJ. Overlapping long lines of polyrhythmic thought that can only be fully understood “in the flow” — from moving bodies — Lena places an entire life immersed in the club, in every corner of the booth, the bar and the dancefloor, in an effortless form of chronicles bordering on aerobic mysticism.

A well-told career that goes from the '90s raver, to the cleaning of records (and glasses) at the Salon Des Amateurs, passing through thousands of miles as a global DJ, the hosting of the Homunkuli radio program for NTS, and at the same time the production, the remixes and the compilation of records, feed each other with unparalleled results. His circles are imbued with experience, with a holistic understanding of the groove that continues to give more than the sum of its parts suggests.

His ability, respected by everyone, to change gears in the blink of an eye plays with the anticipation of muscle memory in ways that defy any type of coding. Instinctively quantifying the rhythm between mutated UK basslines, motor offbeats and curious NeuroPee syntheses, his intuitive inclination enhances sensuality as much as cohesion between those who were once considered mutually exclusive bedfellows.

It is this type of legendary and insightful intuition that continues to persist in the collective imagination of adventurous ravers around the world, both in the role of Lena as a consummate collaborator of Vladimir Ivkovic, her spiritual companion; in the audiovisual project Phantom Kino Ballet, with the multidisciplinary artist Sarah Szczesny; and in the orgiastic experiences of dancers that she keeps wild every weekend.