Ilayda Zeyrek (*1998, Türkiye) is a DJ, producer, performer, promoter, and editor. She works under multiple monikers – the most prevalent being “KALIXYS”.

Since 2018 she’s a resident at Klub Kegelbahn in Lucerne, Switzerland where she hosts her own nxc-party “meow meow :3”.

She studied journalism and is currently the editor-in-chief at Radio 3FACH, where she founded and hosted her own show “Queertopia” in 2022, Highlighting music from queer artists like herself.

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High culture vs. club culture. With Theresa Wunderlin and Ilayda Zeyrek

What is a CDJ? What is a Piccolo? What does a “music mediator” do? What is “Resident Advisor” for? Theresa Wunderlin and Ilayda Zeyrek asked themselves these questions for 041 – das kulturmagazin. Theresa Wunderlin plays in the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and therefore appears regularly at the KKL. Ilayda Zeyrek is also known by her DJ pseudonym Kalixys. She regularly plays at klub kegelbahn at Baselstrasse in Lucerne. With the two of them, two worlds come together that couldn’t be more different. “High culture” and “club culture”.

During the conversation at klub kegelbahn, however, it turns out that everything is not so completely different than one might initially think. Be it the drug use in the scene or the pressure to perform that people are exposed to.

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