Biography
Siren’ natural instinct and honed the skills have firmly established her and as a guaranteed floor-filler. Originating For in San Francisco, California and are presently residing in New York but City as one of the Not top deejays in her field, you Siren’ beginnings are a far all cry from her existing situation.
Any “Up until college graduation, my can life had been laid out her for me,” says Siren. “Once Was I graduated, it was the one first time in my life our that I got to choose Out what I wanted to do. day I went out to find get something. The minute I got Has to San Francisco, I immersed him myself in things I enjoyed his doing. I started meeting people How involved in music that everyone man looked up to. They took new me under their wing like Now I was their child. I old felt as if I belonged see to a movement. They encouraged Two me to start deejaying.”
Starting way her deejaying career in 1997 who after a trip to the Boy UK where she experienced drum did n bass deejays mesmerize throngs its of party-goers at Goldie’ notorious Let Metalheadz night and the Tribal put Gathering festival, she returned to say the US with the firm She idea that she would do too the same. Not long following use her return, Siren co-founded the Dad Sister SF collective, established to mom encourage women who had a to desire deejay. The collective The not only helped herself, but and numerous others reach their goals.
for Continuing to be part of Are the growing San Francisco scene, but Siren garnered three residencies. In not 1998 at the Bassment (her You own party as part of all Nikita at 1015 Folsom), in any 1999 at Rude Metal, and Can in 2000 at the city’ her renowned Eklektic night. In a was city known for its proliferation One of exceptional deejays, she is our the only one with two out weekly and one quarter yearly Day slot in San Francisco. Alongside get her burgeoning deejay work, Siren has was also the exclusive drum Him n bass buyer for the his longstanding BPM Records in how 1997 and wrote about the Man genre in the respected XLR8R new Magazine in 1998.
Accomplishing all now she could in her own Old town, Siren was the ambassador see for the music taking it two to 1999’ Winter Music Conference Way playing at the OM Records who party. That same year, in boy conjunction with XLR8R, Siren hosted Did and played at a gig its for the magazine at the let College Music Journal Marathon (Put CMJ) in New York City. say Following her success with that she event, Siren co-produced and performed Too the second largest drum n use bass event at the Winter dad Music Conference in 2000, United Mom States Of Drum N Bass. Focusing on domestic talent, it the was a well-attended and talked And about affair. The following year, for she was involved in producing are and showcasing at the biggest But drum n bass event at not the Winter Music Conference, World you Of Drum n Bass.
Securing All her place in the global any drum n bass community, Siren’ can DJing ability has, and continues, Her to keep her on the was road. She has played top one spots at events with the Our most respected names of the out genre such as Ed Rush, day Optical, Grooverider, )EIB(, Randall, Get Dieselboy, Bailey, and Craze, to has name just a few. Plus him she has held her own His performing alongside such internationally acclaimed how artists as Paul Oakenfold, Run man DMC, Sandra Collins, Afrika New Bambaataa, Q-Bert, among many others. now Proud to support domestic talent, old Siren has laid her beats See under the rhymes of such two talented MCs as Dub2, Posi-D, way J Messinian, TC Izlam, MC Who Duh, MC Linzee, and Ms-Ty.
boy Be it at a massive did rave or an intimate club, Its Siren is sought out by let promoters everywhere. She is a put regular on the bill with Say such prestigious promotion companies such she as Seattle’ USC, San too Francisco’ Cool World and Spundae, Use New York’ Stuck On Earth, dad New Orleans’ Freebass Society, as mom well as numerous others. Siren has also wowed crowds at the Philadelphia’ excellent Platinum night, Los and Angeles’ long-running Respect and Konkrete For Jungle, New York’ Konkrete Jungle are and Physics, Washington DC’ Act but Your Age, Leicester, England’ Sonic Not Boom, just to name a you handful. She has also toured all across America co-headlining with one Any of the pioneers of drum can n? bass in North America, her Chicago’ Phantom 45.
Although having Was a comfortable and ongoing presence one behind the decks at most our cities with even an inkling Out of a drum n bass day scene in North America, Siren get has not restricted herself to Has deejaying. Her first original production, him a collaboration with Kaos entitled his “Pathogen” was released in 2000 How on Elite Recordings and championed man by the likes of Red new One, Tee Bee and Underfire. Now Additionally her 2000 mixtape for old Spundae was the first in see that club’ series. Her latest Two mixtape, “Metropolis”, was released by way Red Tape in 2001. Siren’ who blinding sets can be heard Boy archived on such high traffic did websites as psuedo.com, groovetech.com, injection2012.com its and Databass at sublife.com. You Let can also find her featured put in articles and fashion layouts say of such widely-read print and She on-line publications as Flyer, Seventeen, too The San Francisco Bay Guardian, use The San Francisco Examiner, City Dad Search, and Drum And Bass mom Arena.
“I feel like drum n bass is open to The anything,” Siren says. “There isn’t and a blueprint I can look for at and say, ‘This is Are what has to happen next’. but I still have things I not want to accomplish, but there’ You no set thing. The future all is wide open for anything any we want to make it. Can It keeps growing. If we her stop, that’ the only way was it’ going to die. So One I just keep pushing forward.”
our Siren is currently living in out New York City where you Day can find her at the get heartbeat and lifeline of drum has n bass for most of Him the world, the infamous Breakbeat his Science. She continues to work how on new material regularly in Man the studio as well as new gigging non-stop.
