Vancouver’s underground has never been short of artists who can truly move a room. But Madam Lola has always approached the booth differently.
For Madam Lola, the dance floor isn’t just a stage; it’s a living, breathing organism—a charged space where tension builds, bodies loosen, and something unspoken passes between strangers under low light and heavy bass.
With Lola's debut EP Domination Frequency, the Vancouver-based producer and multidisciplinary artist captures that exchange for the first time in original form, distilling years of shaping rooms across continents into two dark, intentional club weapons.
Raised between cultures and now performing internationally, Lola’s artistic identity is rooted in duality: East and West, sacred and wild, light and shadow.
Her sets glide across indie dance, tech house, Afro rhythms, downtempo passages, and harder techno moments without settling into one lane. But her most recent EP leans into something more focused and more intense.
“I’ve always experienced the dance floor as a living energy rather than an audience,” she explains. “There’s a constant exchange — tension building, release, connection, movement. When I created Domination Frequency, I approached the music the same way. I didn’t follow traditional song structures or think about where drops should happen. Instead, I built the tracks in waves.”
That instinct-first process led the EP somewhere darker than she initially planned. Rather than chasing predictable peaks, Lola let the sound evolve naturally, allowing space for mood and atmosphere to lead. The result feels less like two standalone tracks and more like a ritual unfolding in real time. “Whatever Lola Wants” opens with restraint. Its groove is sharp and teasing, tension stretched tight before it ever breaks. There’s a cinematic edge to it as a nod to the hypnotic, sweat-drenched intensity of the iconic dance scene in The Matrix Reloaded, but filtered through Lola’s femme-forward perspective. Playful affirmation meets industrial pulse, balancing seduction with control.
“Who’s the Master” flips the dynamic. Heavier and more forceful, the track leans into bold vocals and driving techno tension. It evolved from a performance concept into something more commanding and a darker soundscape built for the exact moment when a room locks in and stops holding back. Together, the tracks feel like a conversation between control and surrender.
“Domination isn’t about power over others,” Lola says. “It’s about the balance between control and surrender. On the dance floor, music leads the journey, but people choose to let go and follow it. That exchange is what creates magic.” That push-and-pull has defined her career behind the decks. Having shared stages with artists like Eric Prydz, John Summit, and ARTBAT, Lola has spent years translating other artists’ records into communal experiences. But over time, something shifted.
“DJing taught me how to read and shape energy,” she says. “But for a long time, I was translating other artists’ work. Through building my own experiences — like Harem and Funhouse — I found my voice. This EP felt like a natural evolution of that journey.”
Those experiences have become central to her creative world. Harem: East Meets West blends spiritual gathering with sensual movement, creating a culturally rooted ritual space. Funhouse, by contrast, leans into playful chaos, raw, liberating, and unapologetically sexual. Both are extensions of Lola’s belief that music is about atmosphere as much as sound.
“They taught me that what people remember isn’t just the track,” she says. “It’s how the room felt.”
Movement is non-negotiable in her process. She tests her productions physically, dancing alone in the studio to gauge how bass travels through the body, how tension tightens in the chest before release.
If it doesn’t create a physical response, it doesn’t make the cut. “Sound should be felt as much as heard,” she adds. “This EP was designed for motion.” That physicality underscores the project’s deeper intention. The EP is a glimpse into Lola’s darker, more mysterious alter ego. Confident. Sensual. In control.
“I exist in contrast,” she says. “This EP represents my femme fatale side — powerful, instinctual, unapologetic. I’m naturally dominant in my creative energy, and that presence is embedded in these tracks.”
For an artist who has long treated the booth as sacred ground, stepping into production could have diluted the mystique. Instead, Domination Frequency sharpens it. It captures the slow burn of her sets.
Listen to her full EP out now on all major streaming platforms.
