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Lask, real name Alaska, is a Naarm/Melbourne-born DJ, producer, and live act formerly based in Berlin from 2018-2025.

As a kid, Lask was exposed to electronic and hiphop music from a young age by her parents. From 4 years old she attended events like confest, earthcore and much smaller doofs out in the countryside where she was growing up.

She began her musical journey at 14. After finding a microkorg at her parents, she began jamming over dj shadow tracks and recording the audio in reaper, eventually creating new tracks from the ideas. After unsuccessfully attending a normal high school. She transferred to a music and arts school.

During her teens, Lask went to all kinds of raves. She filled her teenage years with all types of electronic music and the landscapes that they existed in. Putting all her experience together with a combined knowledge of music theory, computers, and DAW’s, synthesizers and drum machines, to end up with a seriously strong love and passion for creating experiences within her music.

In 2016, at age 20, she started DJing, first getting asked to play a gig, and then having to quickly learn to dj in the two weeks before the gig. Things transpired quickly and Lask started gaining recognition in Melbourne's underground scene, playing sometimes up to 5 times a weekend.

In 2018, in what seemed to be the breakout year in her career in Australia. Lask moved to Berlin off the back of a one way holiday, resulting in a total shift of music direction, inspiration and a completely new music industry landscape to navigate.

During Covid after years of djing and producing in Berlin, Lask decided to buy a Digitakt, which re-inspired her love for hardware and resulted in many YouTube streamed live sets and then creating tutorials to pass the time of lockdown.

In 2023, Lask started performing live in clubs and venues in Berlin and other parts of Germany. Being able to refine her live set in such high-profile clubs resulted in a very high standard and a clear vision for what she wants to achieve with music. Pure, hardware-based, energetic dance music, with no genres attached.

Post covid in Berlin Lask found herself involved with various crews, but none stuck harder than the warehouse collective coppi. coppi gave Lask a chance to explore all the different elements of Berlin's music industry culture, developing knowledge around warehouse spaces, DIY events, bartending, helping build custom speakers, photography, general events work and more.

At the end of 2025, Lask packed up in Berlin and returned to Australia, about to turn 30 and having done 8 years in Berlin, it felt the right time to head home and compartmentalize everything learned in that time.

Since returning back to AU, Lask has prioritised releasing new EPs each month on her label Proper Animal, and rediscovering the underground scene in Naarm/Melb. 

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Lask has performed at renowned venues and events such as ADE, Tresor, Hoppetosse, Renate, Watergate, Katerblau, Ritterbutzke, Fusion festival2025, Rainbow Serpent festival 2019, and Tanglewood 24/25 and more.