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Who Rising LA-based Israeli techno selector
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Most artists will struggle against being boxed into a single genre, but for ever-evolving LA-based DJ Mor Elian, pinning her to one sound is genuinely tough. We'd say she plays deep, lo-fi techno that's equally suited to warming up or winding down, and her love of melody and tribal grooves has brought her in vogue with Southern California's burgeoning 'desert sound'.

Mor grew up sneaking into parties under her big sisters' wings during the booming Tel Aviv rave scene of the late 2000s. "They used to let me work the door at these events when I was a teenager!" she says. "The scene was all around me then."

After relocating to LA in her late teens, she got her start DJing with a residency at long-time local haunt El Cid. She was known then for playing anything from Afrobeat to funk and Italo disco, but over the years, stints in London and Berlin helped filter that eclecticism into her current sound.

Her first release, 'U Don't Know' with Sabo, was one of XLR8R's most downloaded singles last year, and her follow-up EP, which further focuses her take on muted techno, is set to drop on Trus'me's Prime Numbers imprint later this summer. But while she's working towards finding a consistent production sound that stays open to her ever-swelling pool of influences, Mor is determined not to box herself in. "I'm not trying to confuse people with my sound," she says. "I'm going to stay with techno for a while, but I'm influenced by so much music. The last thing I want to be is one dimensional."

Based on what we've heard so far, we don't think there's much chance of that.

'323 To Plaza' is out now on Prime Numbers