DJ

🔊VINLY - INTERNATIONAL GROOVES, DISCO, DUB🔊

Reggae was the first music style I loved, having it played to me from the age of 5 on a mixtape made by my godfather. I grew up exclaiming “I’m the happiest I could possibly be” when dancing to live reggae, ska and dub.

I’ve always related hard to the lyrics “Mumma didn’t raise this rude boy, he was raised in the dance” by Gentlemans Dub Club. I realise I don’t classify as a ‘rude boy’ but that lyric always caught me, indeed ‘the dance’ very much wove the fabrics of who I am today, what excites me and how I spend my time. I still genuinely exclaim, overwhelmed with happiness, almost feigning disbelief “I couldn’t be happier” when I’m “skanking” to live music or a booming DJ set - not a care in the world except a beer in one hand and a smoke in the other.

Naturally I began DJing, almost unable to resist selecting totally grooving songs - I starting off commandeering parties, and developed a demand. Through radio and my degree in Ethnomusicology, I started to curate my vinyl collections carefully to include chunks of African, maqqam and Maghreb disco, reggae ska and dub, calypso, rapso, cumbia... the list goes on, anything that grooves and makes me feel good.

I now play vinyl only DJ sets frequently around town (and CDJ sets too), some festivals, and a residency in ‘The Post Bar’ @ Seven Sisters every other Thursday, as well as continuing my online radio show ‘Electric Dish’ MIX series.

For bookings contact: darlingsophiemusic@gmail.com