25-year-old Nina Wilson, aka DJ and producer Ninajirachi, creates the kind of epic, intricate, and universal EDM that takes you from creating music in your bedroom on the Central Coast of NSW to playing festivals the world over, including Lollapalooza, EDC Las Vegas and Laneway, where she was the 2025 interstitial DJ.
A triple j Unearthed High finalist in 2016 and 2017, she’s been releasing music officially since the age of 18, leading to her being signed to Nina Las Vegas’s label, NLV records.
Ninajirachi cites her primary influences as “nature, fantasy, science fiction, ideas of occult and magic,” which makes a whole lot of sense when you hear her music: each song is a fantastical world unto itself, like a hyperpop soundtrack to the world’s most deranged video game.
New single “All I Am” keeps the producer’s winning streak unbroken, a banger sure to keep crowds jumping in 2025 and beyond. —James Jennings
Rolling Stone AU/NZ: How was 2024 for you? What were your biggest achievements and favourite moments?
Ninajirachi: Selling out my first show in America, touring there with MGNA Crrrta, having “Wayside” in Fortnite, supporting ISOxo on tour, playing on the main stage at EDC and spending the weekend with my friends in Vegas, releasing girl EDM, Caroline Polachek liking “Ninacamina”, playing in China and Japan for the first time, meeting wonderful people who listen to my music in so many cities, being with friends and family in every other moment… I am so grateful.
Music is an increasingly crowded and competitive field. What’s one thing that makes you stand out from other artists?
I always think about Lorde’s mailing list email from her first album’s ten year anniversary, especially this part:
“Pure Heroine exists because I had the tiniest inkling of what I’ve now come to see as one of my guiding principles: that each of us have a handful of songs inside us that are ours, and only ours, to sing. Your specific interests and upbringing and physiology and experiences exist only in you; you are sitting on a gold mine that no one can rob.”
What’s coming up for you in 2025 and beyond? Any big shows, notable releases?
In February I opened for Porter Robinson on his tour and then did the Laneway Festival tour, now I’m in America touring with umru. I look up to these people so much and it’s a trip to be around them. My new song is out and I’m so happy. I’m going to release a lot this year – some of my best music ever methinks.
