Skip to main content
Years DJing: I'm still fairly new to the DJ scene and just started doing residencies in the last year. I remember constantly burning CD mixes for friends when I was a kid. My parents bought me a recorder with a speaker for my sixth birthday along with my first cassette tape, Michael Jackson's Dangerous. I began creating my own radio shows with my little brother and it was infectious. I'd never considered DJing, mainly because I didn't know any other female DJs. When I started to see more girls spin, I thought they looked so confident and in charge, and I was inspired to learn to mix. When I first moved to Portland four years ago from New York, I held a secret late-night art show at the beach on Swan Island. We needed DJs and I thought this would be the perfect time to learn. So I downloaded Traktor, studied the basics, and gave it a go.
Genre: Deep, electro and tropical house; nu disco; hip-hop; R&B.
Where you can catch me regularly: My current residencies are at Saucebox and Dig a Pony, but I often play for events I curate at Service PDX and my female-driven art collective Femme.
Craziest gig: The most recent was DJing for an all-female motorcycle camping trip called the Dream Roll near Mount Adams, Wash. There were hundreds of badass women riding Harleys and emptying kegs. I didn't know what the exact demographic was going to be for musical taste, so I started with my usual loungey house vibes, but by 10 pm the party got started and the ladies only really wanted to dance to dirty rap and '90s Top 40. I was scrambling—I played something like seven hours straight—but I dug deep in my library and found what they wanted. All shirts came off, and eventually they began climbing up on the stage with me. It was shaking so badly from the dancing that I couldn't even mix anymore. My laptop and controller were swaying all over the place. They were offering me shots and cigarettes. I have to say that waking up to 100 rumbling motorcycles in a tent when you're that hung over is not ideal, but I'd do it all over again.
My go-to records: Solomun's remix of Noir & Haze's "Around"; Nicolas Jaar feat. Will Epstein, "Hage Chahine"; Mylo, "Drop the Pressure"; Fort Romeau, "Secret & Lies"; Kelela, "Rewind."
Don't ever ask me to play: Anything ever, because that's not how it works. But especially not dubstep.
NEXT GIG: Coco Louie spins at Saucebox, 214 SW Broadway, on Saturday, Oct. 29. 10 pm. Free. 21+.
Willamette Week