Penny Morado

Shaped by Rhythm, Driven by Techno

Long before techno entered the picture, there was soul, hip-hop, blues and funk. For Thessaloniki-born Penny Morado, rhythm came first — and traces of those early influences can still be heard in the way she approaches a dancefloor today: through groove, movement and a constant sense of momentum.

Her route into electronic music began with minimal techno and became more defined after joining No Love at 23, where time behind the decks allowed her to turn those influences into a language of her own. Rather than settling into one corner of techno, her sound has gradually grown faster and more physical, built around rolling rhythms, hypnotic basslines and the kind of tension that works through a crowd rather than simply hitting it head-on.

A residency at The Host Club placed Penny firmly within Thessaloniki’s techno circuit. As the club’s only female resident DJ during that period, she developed her sets week after week in one of the city’s dedicated spaces for the genre — an environment that gave her the freedom to sharpen both her selection and her relationship with the dancefloor.

That trajectory has since put her on lineups alongside Chris Liebing, Dax J, I Hate Models, Parfait, Indira Paganotto, Clara Cuvé, Lee Ann Roberts and Yousuke Yukimatsu, among others. More recently, she took her sound outside Thessaloniki with a Mykonos debut at Cavo Paradiso, sharing the bill with Meduza.

Rooted in the city where it all began but increasingly reaching beyond it, Penny Morado arrives at reworks with a sound shaped as much by where she started as by where she is heading.