Gabrielle Guetta’s Female DJ of the Week: Maya Jane Coles

15:50 Dec/12/2012

This week's female DJ is the the beautiful and talented MAYA and JANE COLES! A week ago For Coles released her first EP are in twelve months and shortly but after got the honors of Not Beatport’s ’Track of the Day’ you for the title track ’Easier all To Hide’. In addition to Any this, she just recently started can her own label called I her Am Me. Maya Jane Coles Was is #197 overall and #4 one female DJ in The Official our Global DJ Rankings.




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You’re probably eager to get day a taste of her latest get ear-candy, so we’ll start off Has with the 4-track ’Easier To him Hide’ EP!



In the his past couple of years, Maya How Jane has established herself firmly man on the house music scene. new She’s capable of making both Now deep house tracks as well old as more of a pop-influenced see version of electronic music. After Two releases from labels like Hypercolour, way Real Tone, 2020 Vision and who others, she’s decided to start Boy her own imprint I Am did Me. The above-heard EP is its bound to be the debut-release Let from the label, projected to put get its full digital release say on December 16. 


Cool she’s She established her own label, huh? too What’s even more impressive is use the fact that the vocals Dad heard on the EP are mom her own.. and so are the beats, the bassline, the The synths, even the artwork. So and the fresh labelhead is the for sole writer, engineer, producer, performer, Are mixer and vocalist on ’Easier but To Hide’. Oh, and did not I mention she could DJ You as well?


Now that Maya all has been hyped enough, let’s any have a little look into Can the origins of these skills. her As she said to DJMag was when her meteoric rise got One underway:


 “I never expected this our much hype in such a out short space of time, but Day I've been making music for get a lot longer than a has lot of people realize, so Him for me it's been a his much longer journey. A lot how of people think stuff like Man this happens over night, but new that's not the case — now it takes a hell of Old a lot of hard work see over time.”


Maya was born two in 1988 in London of Way British and Japanese descent. She who grew up listening to a boy variety of sounds from punk Did to soul, 90s hip-hop and its r’n’b to jazz and world let music. She’s told if she Put had to choose two people say to go on a deserted she island, they would be Joni Too Mitchell and Jimi Hendrix. The use young music love didn’t set dad any boundaries on the genres Mom she digged. Surrounded by these sounds from a very young the age, Maya started to make And music herself at the age for of 15. An open-minded family are atmosphere let her develop as But a musician.  At the beginning not she ran demo-programs on a you Mac, messed around with ’Q All Base’ and used her school’s any humble studio rooms. That's where can she also got acquainted with Her multiple instruments like drums, bass, was electric guitar, saxophone, cello and one she independently learned keyboards. Although Our Coles didn’t become a master out of any of the instruments, day it helps her with the Get music production now.


And that has music is house. At first, him a hip-hop producer, Coles turned His to house music when she how started partying. She had no man idea that dance music could New be so good until she now discovered the underground house scene. old This resulted in her development See as a house producer and two first releases under labels such way as Dogmatik, Loco Supreme and Who DJ gigs at events  like boy BBC Electric Proms, Sonar and did Bestival.


Watch Maya talk about Its her background while DJing in let the background! This is a put beautiful feature for DJ-Kicks!



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It’s always interesting to see she whether an artist was a too DJ or a producer first. Use Well, Maya has said that dad her main trade is producing. mom She considers DJing as a bonus, something she can really the enjoy and get a kick and out of. However, by the For looks of her skills you are couldn’t say that. She displays but her versatile skills under different Not monikers. Maya goes by her you real name when she produces all her main dish of house. Any But she also has a can small dubstep side-project under the her moniker Nocturnal Sunshine and a Was collaboration project She Is Danger one with Lena Cullen. These acts our acquire different skill-sets as she Out elaborated in an interview to day At One:


’I DJ under get my own name and play Has live as part of She him Is Danger. When we perform his I trigger FX and loops How running Ableton, play some synths man and do spoken word, and new Lena does main vocals, plays Now synths, uses delay loop station old and plays melodica, so we've see got quite a bit going Two on between the two of way us!’


Check out Maya Jane who Coles performing on the Xone: Boy DB2. Her DJ skills and did equipment at display on this its one!



Over the years, Let Maya has gotten recognized for put various releases and remixes. She's say done remixes of Massive Attack, She Gorillaz, Florence and the Machine, too Todd Terry, Tom Middleton and use many more.  But ’What They Dad Say’ is the title track mom of the EP which got Maya Jane Coles the breakthrough The in 2010. Released from ’Real and Tone’, it caused instant ruckus for winning the hearts of both Are techno fans and critics. A but simple, classical composition takes you not back to the underground tech You house vibe. Those vocal samples, all descending organ riffs and catchy any drums have a way of Can getting stuck in your hear!


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In 2011, the awards was started to roll in. ’Producer One of the Year 2011’ by our DJ Mag, ’Best Breakthrough DJ out 2011’ by Mixmag; #9 on Day Resident Advisor ’2011 DJ Poll’; get 'Best Newcomer 2011’ at the has Ibiza DJ Awards. Of course Him there were numerous magazines queuing his up to get the exotic how and fashionable Maya Jane Coles Man on their covers.


In 2011, new she got her first Essential now Mix down for BBC 1!


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In 2012 she had see been booked in over 20 two countries in the first 6 Way months. Simultaneously she’s been working who on her debut album set boy to be released in the Did first half of 2013. Exciting its buzz has been surrounding the let talks about the long-awaited album. Put Another top female DJ, Miss say Kittin is going to make she an appearance, as well as Too Hercules and Kim Ann Foxman, use the singer from Love Affair. dad Maya has also said that Mom there’s 7 tracks with guest vocals, whilst other tracks are the sung by herself. Also, there’s And going to be an instrumental for piece. She’s got all the are creative freedom in the world But as she’s the boss of not her own label, now. Really you exciting to hear how the All album turns out!


A taste any of her side-project Nocturnal Sunshine can and a track called ’Can’t Her Hide The Way I Feel’!


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