Alfonso Tan

Alfonso Tan Rising, Seattle-based, dance music DJ & producer with a passion and attitude that rattles dance floors. House. Tech house. Disco. Occasionally techno.

Let's vibe together! Extended Bio:
Alfonso's passion for music can be traced back to recording his favorite tracks off the radio and trading mix CD's with his friends. He's always been intrigued by both the artistic and technical aspects of DJ'ing, and finally dove into this world at the end of 2018. House music is his foundation and main love, and he finds enjoyment in many forms of electronic da

nce music. Striking a solid vibe with his listeners is what makes him happiest. He grew up on '90's era underground hip hop, R&B, electronica, indie rock, video games, sportscars, snowboarding, and Pacific Northwest culture; the positive influence on his sound is apparent. With Alfonso, the sound has to bounce, groove, connect with the crowd, and have the right attitude. He's covered a lot of ground in his relatively short journey as a DJ: playing for many of Seattle's more prominent outfits (LOST, Nark Magazine, Field Trip, Uniting Souls, Studio 4/4, etc.) at the city's hottest venues (Monkey Loft, Q Nightclub, Kremwerk, Re-Bar, etc.), as well as venturing out to rock parties in Vancouver, Boston, San Diego, and Palm Springs. Whether it be an intimate basement, underground rave, sprawling club, or sunny, rooftop deck, Alfonso can hit the proper groove. Alfonso Tan currently holds a residency with the infamous LOST Family, rocking monthly 2nd-Saturday shows with them at Monkey Loft, and a residency with The Cuff, frequently tearing up their dance floor during the rest of the month. He also recently played Beyond Wonderland 2021 at the Gorge for Insomniac, Desertopia for Palm Springs Pride, and will close out the year with an NYE Celebration on his home turf at the Cuff. Alfonso has also begun producing music - playing with techy, bangin', make-you-dance, club sounds. He has been thoroughly enjoying the evolution in this realm thus far, and plans to keep releasing music while taking opportunities to rock dance floors in a post-lockdown era. Music has always been an important force in Alfonso's life, and he aims to channel its power through his DJ'ing and productions.

🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Bring your love, to Vancouver Pride ❤️ Thank you sooo much to Vancity for a truly great weekend!! I had a grrreat...
08/03/2026

🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦 Bring your love, to Vancouver Pride ❤️ Thank you sooo much to Vancity for a truly great weekend!! I had a grrreat time playing The Gay Agenda Saturday afternoon Tea Dance!! I certainly enjoy playing late nights that get the crowd into a sexy mood, but it’s also REALLY rewarding to play that feel-good vibe that gets a crowd to groove and smile together… as a proper tea dance does ☀️🪩 I’m so glad that I could contribute 🙏

The weekend as a whole (even though we cut it a little short), was sooo nice 🥰 Vancouver has changed A LOT since I started going up there to party, but I’ve made a lot of great friendships up there across the years, and I loved being able to reconnect, especially since the last visit was for a memorial ❤️‍🩹 I hope y’all are enjoying recovery Monday on Wreck Beach 😜 and I hope to catch you again sooner than later!

Up next: a Seattle summer weekend off (!!!), and then my Atlanta debut for Kink Down South 😈 Have a great week!!

🇨🇦 This weekend, I’m excited to head up to Vancouver to celebrate their city’s Pride, catch up with some good friends, a...
07/30/2026

🇨🇦 This weekend, I’m excited to head up to Vancouver to celebrate their city’s Pride, catch up with some good friends, and throw it down for the ultra-FUN The Gay Agenda Tea Dance 🌈🪩 This event always draws a great crowd and is the perfect way to spend Vancouver Pride’s Saturday afternoon. I’ve attended it for the last two years (playing it in 2024 ➡️ swipe for coverage, but pardon the sound quality 😅), and from personal experience, I can highly recommend it to anyone in town for the weekend. As I’ve mentioned many times, I LOVE playing that Tea Dance/day party/feel-good sound to a crowd in proper spirits, and I can’t wait to groove with our neighbors up north. Plus, the homies Del Stamp and OhMy Gord will be rockin’ it alongside ❤️ This event has a tendency to sell out, so snag a presale while you can and I’ll see you out there!! ☀️🔊

🏳️‍🌈 Y’all, Pride took me OUT, and it was totally worth it. I had such a blast across the weekend celebrating with chose...
07/02/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Y’all, Pride took me OUT, and it was totally worth it. I had such a blast across the weekend celebrating with chosen family ❤️ Many hugs, smiles, laughs, dance steps, and even tears were had. It’s so special to me personally to celebrate overcoming the challenges we encounter while being LGBTQ+, or still finding joy despite what we are currently facing. I always use this time to think about my growth as a gay man (sooo much more happens after coming out), and am grateful to be where I am with it. Between our personal journeys and the growing negativity towards the LGBTQ+ community, Pride continues to stay highly relevant and meaningful 💪

There were too many great moments to list them all, but I’m grateful that the weekend was filled with them. I LOVED running into all the friends I’ve made across the years that I don’t often see; those hugs were heartfelt! There’s also nothing like dancing with a crew you feel especially connected to at a massive Pride event, and seeing a sea of people collectively get loose when the beat drops on a q***r anthem. It just hits different on Pride weekend; moments like this truly make me feel unified, empowered, and not alone 🔊

In regard to DJ’ing, it was so f’ing great to play a variety of sounds for some diverse events to a wide range of audiences. Through my sets, I got celebratory, happy, c*nty, sexy, deep, bangin’, and even made myself cry to a particularly meaningful song (the lyrics state: “don’t try to change me”). It was deeply fulfilling to help foster the unity and collective joy that comes with the weekend. Thank you to everyone for being there for it, and to The Cuff Complex, Flammable Sundays, Seattle PrideFest, and Shameless Productions for having me!! Thank you also to these folks for all the work that was put in to create the party. I’ve mentioned my involvement in the Cuff’s musical aspects, but this is just a portion of a HUGE amount of work that goes into it all. Thank you to everyone behind the scenes for making it happen 🙏❤️

If you celebrated, I hope you enjoyed yourself!! I’m finally feeling recovered, lol, so onward to Summer! ☀️

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🏳️‍🌈 This photo was snapped from the Cuff Pride Fest’s main stage a few years ago, and this smile will be making a frequ...
06/24/2026

🏳️‍🌈 This photo was snapped from the Cuff Pride Fest’s main stage a few years ago, and this smile will be making a frequent appearance as I see you all across the weekend. I’ve still got some DJ set prep to do, but my excitement for Seattle Pride weekend is ramping up fast and I can’t wait to celebrate with you all! I’m playing a bunch of cool stuff around the city and I hope you can join:

🌇 Thursday • 8:00PM-10:00PM - I’ll be b2b’ing with my good friend HAÜS|GASM (David) on the Monkey Loft deck for Shameless Productions’s Pride edition of Deck’d Out, one of Seattle’s best summer weeklies. It’s such a great way to kick things off and always puts me in good spirits for the weekend. Presales are sold out, but there will be plenty of door tickets. Showing up early is highly recommended!

🔊 Saturday • 3:30PM-5:00PM - Capitol Hill Seattle PrideFest will be happening all along Broadway and throughout Cal Anderson Park. As part of it, catch me at the DJ stage in front of the AMP AIDS Memorial. This event is FREE to attend with a lot to check out - vendors, food, performances, and generally great vibes. I personally really enjoy spending Saturday afternoon at it. Swing by!

⛓️ Saturday • 9:00PM-12:00AM - I’ll be rockin’ The Cuff Complex’s club floor during it’s Saturday installment of its massive Pride Fest. As mentioned in another post, it has been an absolute BLAST in recent years, so expect that energy to keep going 🚀 It’s gonna go offff!!

⛪️ Sunday • 10:00PM-2:00AM, multiple times across the night - I’m closing out the weekend in a suuuper special way: playing the legendary, deeply-loved Pride edition of Flammable Sundays with some dear friends ❤️ It’s gonna be really cool (and meaningful!!) to help foster the unique energy of Flamm during Pride. Slide through if you wanna end your weekend in a soulful way, but arrive early and bring cash for the door 😉🔥

Wherever you find yourself, have a great celebration!! With the increase in anti-LBGTQ+ sentiment out there, I personally can’t wait to crank the volume for us. Have fun, stay hydrated, look out for each other, and I’ll catch you out there!! 😘

🌉 Greetings from San Francisco!! Fun fact: this giant Pride flag has been part of my personal journey and gives me a nic...
06/19/2026

🌉 Greetings from San Francisco!! Fun fact: this giant Pride flag has been part of my personal journey and gives me a nice shot of nostalgia every time I’m visiting and I see it. It’s interesting how it’s somewhat of a beacon for me, and I’m sure many LGBTQ+ folx can relate 🏳️‍🌈❤️ Now, why I’m here…

Tonight, I’ll be providing the soundtrack for the TRADE SF One Year Anniversary alongside Will Vitagliano 🙌 TRADE was started by Mark Weston and Mike as a new monthly event at the Scott Richard Peterson and it’s been awesome to see such positive results from their work. We’ve attended some shows together and had good chats about music, so it’s been extra-cool to see them bring this concept to life. TRADE is an event with energy that is well-balanced between sexy and fun, drawing a great crowd to dance to some 🔥 tunes. When visiting to play another show last October, I was able attend that month’s TRADE and had a grrreat time! I really enjoyed working with Mark and Mike previously when playing REAL BAD and REAL BAD: RITUAL, so I was super stoked that we’d get to do it again when I got the invite for this event 😃 It’s gonna be a rad celebration, so if you’re around, come through and give TRADE a big HBD!! 😈🔊

☀️ Across last weekend in Philadelphia and Chicago, I was telling people how amazing summer in Seattle is. I truly belie...
06/12/2026

☀️ Across last weekend in Philadelphia and Chicago, I was telling people how amazing summer in Seattle is. I truly believe this, but I just learned that it actually rained last weekend 😂 Well, another weekend is upon us, I’m in town for this one, and it is looking LOVELY 🤩 The sun is gonna be allll the way out, and I’m gonna be helping y’all break a sweat across some pretty rad events:

🫡 Friday night: YES SIR returns to The Cuff Complex with their special 360 stage setup, dirty tech house vibes, and rowdy energy that has helped them attract a wide range of folks, including many from a *ahem* younger generation. I’ll be playing the 12-1:30 slot alongside wicked selectors I.S.H / Ismael Lukata 🇵🇸 and KOPPER 🔊

💘 Saturday afternoon: With The Pink Party on Pier 62 being pushed to Labor Day due to FIFA’s invasion on our city, the ROAR EVENTS fam is still providing us with a rad (and FREE) improvisation at Cal Anderson Park. I’ll be playing the 6-9PM slot for this along with some rad DJ friends. The weather is looking *very nice,* so come park party with us!! (PS - if you haven’t yet, tune into my set from last year on Pier 62 on Roar’s YouTube channel! 📺!)

🏒 The highly successful Heated Rivalry ‘Raging Hot Club Night’ returns this month for its Pride edition at Chop Suey Seattle 🙌 This party has been a blast to play, and with how this weekend is looking, this one is gonna go offffff 🚀

It’s gonna be another busy weekend, but I’m stoked to throw it down in three very different settings, each with unique sounds to fit the vibe. Wherever you find yourself, enjoy the weekend, and stay cool!! 😎

💘 Without a doubt, a massive highlight from DJ-land in 2025 was playing the first  on Seattle’s very-scenic Pier 62. It ...
06/09/2026

💘 Without a doubt, a massive highlight from DJ-land in 2025 was playing the first on Seattle’s very-scenic Pier 62. It was suuuch a great-event!! The production was extremely well-done, the folks in attendance *werked* the theme in their own expressive ways, everyone’s music was 🥵🔥, and it captured such a great spirit. The video edit of my set just got uploaded to the YouTube channel (search for it accordingly), and I must say, it’s pretty f’ing sick 🤩💖!!!! Huuuuge thanks for Roar for inviting me to be part of such a special day, and capturing it in such a cool way 🥺 While we wait for this year’s Pink Party to happen later this year (pushed to Labor Day due to soccer madness), throw this on to relive the magic!! And, this Saturday, join us for a cute and FREE pop up on the Pink Party’s originally scheduled date at Cal Anderson Park. I’ll be playing some wavey day party tunes alongside some talented friends, and we’d love it if you joined 💝 Catch you in the park!!

Greetings from the City of Brotherly Love! Despite having to walk around in 90F heat, I really enjoyed seeing some of ou...
06/05/2026

Greetings from the City of Brotherly Love! Despite having to walk around in 90F heat, I really enjoyed seeing some of our nation’s history (Seattle/West Coast doesn’t have it like this), catching city views, eating ‘local delicacies’ 😜, and generally exploring a new place. Thank you to for sweating it out to show me around! The heat is gonna continue into the night as him, , and myself throw down at for ’s Pride kickoff 🏳️‍🌈🐷 It’s sold out with *very* limited door tix (come early if you need one!), so you know it’s gonna be a wild night. If you’re around, hope to see you 🤘🤘

PS - if you know why I chose this post’s song (or the artists, rather), hi-fives 😎 It’s a banger from some of their earliest days…

Chicago! This Saturday, let’s shut the lights off and dance 💡❌ I’m stoked to be back in such a great city for a rowdy ni...
06/04/2026

Chicago! This Saturday, let’s shut the lights off and dance 💡❌ I’m stoked to be back in such a great city for a rowdy night 😈 playing an event that is always a ton of fun with a great crowd to play to 🔊 It’s been a minute since my last visit, so you can expect an all-new arsenal of mood-appropriate dance music to keep you going all night. No phones allowed, hence slide 2’s video clip facing me and not the crowd —— It’s also kinda cool that this party has always had that rule, given a 567% rise of phone-free club nights since 2024, for various reasons. Come through and do you 😎

☀️ Hey friends, Summer is upon us!! To say that I am THRILLED about the season would be putting it very lightly. I’ll be...
06/04/2026

☀️ Hey friends, Summer is upon us!! To say that I am THRILLED about the season would be putting it very lightly. I’ll be hitting the ground running with a Philly debut, and *carrying on* through the month with some really rad events, most of which are [rightfully] Prideful 🏳️‍🌈 I’m so hyped to help us celebrate and unite through music, especially with the current sociopolitical climate ✊ Then, later on in the season, I’ll be returning to some of my favorite spots as well as appearing for the first time in Puerto Vallarta, Atlanta, Provincetown, and Fire Island. I’m so stoked to spread my sound to various cities as well as throw it down around Seattle, all for some cool happenings and venues with a variety of vibes. If any of these dates and locations line up with you, come through and boogie!!

Big THANKS to everyone who has put me on 🙏 It’s a little bittersweet to be missing more of Seattle’s summer this year as it is genuinely amazing out here, but this is the biggest summer that I’ll have had in regards to music/DJ’ing thus far, and I’m really looking forward to it. I’m so flattered, honored, and excited, and I can’t wait to get down with you all. Swipe for flyers that have dropped thus far; all available ticket links are in the usual spot, and more will appear as they become available. I’ll catch you out there!! 🔊 …and, if you see an opening on this calendar and need some 🔥 for your event/venue, feel free reach out!!

Cheers!! 😎

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