In conversation with MomaSé

Maeve de Bordóns Álvarez

May 2025

Momasé joins us with her mix joins us with her mix titled "It's Not The End", blending House, and Bass into a wonderful listening experience.

Momasé is a Colombian DJ and music producer currently based in Barcelona, deeply influenced by the sounds she absorbed while raving at warehouses in Bushwick and around the city after living for a decade in New York City. Her digital-vinyl sets generate eclectic journeys ranging from Chi-House, Deep and Minimal House, Progressive House, Acid House, Breaks and Techno and other sounds she doesn't even know how to call to evoke oneness and power for dancers. She is also profoundly influenced by boleros and salsa. In 2023, she moved to Barcelona to study music production diving into the Barcelona local scene, playing at Macarena Club, Red58, La Terrrazzza, Asociación Freedonia, to name some. In 2024, she debuted in Berlin, playing at Birgit Club and in Video Club in Bogotá. She also loves cats and chocolate.

Thank you for joining us, could you share your first memories of connecting with music, and how you then started DJing?

I was blessed enough to grow up around parents who adore music. One of my first memories that I vividly remember was when I was five years old, and I had to do this school dance with the song “Yellow Submarine” by the Beatles. I loved the song so much that I could not stop singing it at home afterwards. One night my dad came home after work, and he handed me the Red and Blue Compilation CD albums of the Beatles. I still have those. I remember feeling so much love and happiness.

The first time I came across DJing was because my dad would play with Virtual DJ on the family computer back in like 2006? Something like that. We would download songs from Ares or from the CDs we already had, and do mixes of baladas, boleros, classic rock and salsa, and burn CDs to give them as gifts to family members and friends.

After my dad passed away, I promised myself I would learn how to properly DJ. It became my therapy and now it has become one of my life missions as music has helped me evolve and connect to myself in crazy levels.

What are some of the highlights of your year so far? 

Some of this year's highlights have been going back to therapy. Also, meeting incredible talented people at the local scene that have taught me so much about music and on how to create parties that are genuine and full of care and love. Shoutout to AMEBA collective and TILECT community. The launch party of our own collective called Eterna which started back in March. Our first party was really cute. 

I am also playing my very first festival ever at AMEBA Parkfest, and I am so excited for it.

Could you share some of the inspiration behind the mix? 

This mix is called: It's Not The End. I weirdly recorded this mix right after seeing my aunt for the last time. I recorded it thinking about the concept of finity and eternity at the same time. About this confusing idea that sometimes in life it all feels like the end but in the end, it is not the end- It's a complete paradox. Things end: relationships end, projects end, and your loved ones can be gone at any second but I promise, it’s not the end. The core of it all is that…much better moments, the right people, and places will come at the end of the day. That we gotta Surrender and Trust. That’s why the mix includes a beautiful song by Eris Drew that says “But I know for sure it’s not the end..Don’t you know for sure it’s not the end” plus other songs on the concept of time and relationships. 

I am blending Dubstep, House,  breaks and a bit of Bass and other sounds I don't even know how to call making me personally feel different sensations: chaos, calm, motivation, movement relief, initiation, mystery.

You live in Barcelona and are part of AMEBA, how do you find your musical relationship with the city, and what are some of your favourite collectives, labels, producers in Barcelona and beyond? 

Barcelona has opened my heart and soul. Despite the city having some systemic issues within the scene, I have encountered so many artists and inspiring spaces. The city overall has been my school. It’s where I had my very first gig with more than like 40 people. That's huge to me!

My fave collective: I have been blessed to meet my friends at AMEBA (Asociación de Música Electronica de Barcelona) almost right when I arrived in Barcelona. AMEBA has been a proper school for me as well. I have met so many inspiring artists who genuinely are doing this for the love of music. Everytime you go to an AMEBA party, you feel the care, the love, the pureness of what a party should be. It never fails. 

Right now, my favorite producer in Barcelona is Not on Earth. You can see their pure soul through their music. IDM, breaks, D&M- lots of expansive sounds. They released an album last year called Esperança 

In general, I love Cleo Sol and Natalia Lafourcade :)

Before living in Barcelona, you also spent many years in NYC, how did this influence your approach to music differently to Barcelona? 

NYC was where I became a raver. It was how I became connected first to the scene. NYC is so diverse so I got to absorb many sounds and different spaces. It was when I got a sense that being a DJ could be possible. I would go out sometimes on my own for instance to TBA or Good Room and just hang out there sitting on their sofas to listen to the mixes. Sometimes I would just be close to the DJ booth just to watch what my peers were doing and start learning. 

What is something you’re excited to learn in 2025? 

Patience and self care. Being a baby DJ is demanding and sometimes overwhelming. You somehow feel the pressure to be playing all the time, sometimes in terrible conditions. You feel pressure to go out constantly to get to know the scene but also to support your friends. And don't mention social media- that shit is exhausting sometimes. So I am trying to embrace patience as to respect my process and journey as a DJ and self care so I can perform at my best.

Keep up with MomaSé on Instagram, Soundcloud.

Tracklist
Nicola Cruz- Telepathine
Pitch black- Third Light (Adrian Sherwood's Echoes of the Night 10＂ Dub Mix)
WPR074 - ØZ x Ourman – Loosey
Stones- Taro Leaf Raining
Fred P- Vibe to the Rhythm
Cylo Carl- Shortness of Time
Pugilist & Pod- Mystic
Amor Satyr & Siu Mata- AHE
Colorblind aka DJ Spider & Jun Matsuoka - Nu-Swing! (Woody Remix)
Cousin- Muster
comforter2 - How to Arrive (downstairs J Remix)
Quanta- Wide Eyed
Pépe- Angels
Anna Wall- Regardless
Eris Drew- Reactiv-8
Wassestroff_Deprisa, Deprisa (The Trance Comes)