Michele Sainte | |
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| Origin | United States |
| Genres | Drum and bass, breakbeat hardcore, jungle, (early) techno, techstep, Witchstep |
| Instruments | DJ mixer, turntables |
| Years active | 1986–present |
Michele Sainte is an American drum and bass DJ and former techno DJ. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
Sainte is a former breakbeat hardcore and techno DJ [9] that is also "widely regarded as one of the States' premiere female drumandbass DJs" according to Dieselboy. [10] [11] She is known for mixing the techstep subgenre of drum and bass. [12] [13]
She has DJed throughout North America at clubs and raves as a breakbeat and techno DJ on a regular basis beginning in 1990, dedicating herself exclusively to the Drum&Bass genre by 1995 [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] and performing alongside artists such as 808 State, [19] Joey Beltram, [20] Meat Beat Manifesto. [21]
She became a frequent guest DJ at music venues including City Gardens [22] in Trenton, New Jersey, Guernica [23] [24] [25] (formerly Save the Robots) in Manhattan, The Shelter (New York City), and The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Also, she was asked to be a resident DJ at Club Zadar in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in January 1990, introducing techno to the new wave venue. In addition, she became a resident DJ at several venues in Philadelphia including Evolution [26] and Skyline. [27] She is considered one of the first female techno DJs from North America and has been cited as "the original East Coast female drum and bass DJ". [28]
Sainte has acknowledged the support of DJ Lenny Dee. [29] Dieselboy has also been known to support her. [30] She also convinced Rhys Fulber, after he met her in the “early nineties” when she worked as a Techno DJ, to eventually produce Techno and use his German name as opposed to an alias. [31]
Sainte became licensed by the FCC in 1986, whilst still a high school student. [32] She has worked at WFMU (named the “best radio station in the nation” by Rolling Stone magazine from 1991 through 1994 [33] ) and WPRB at Princeton University. [34] [35] [36] In 1995, she created and DJed on a program with live mixing at WPRB that she called Bassquake. Bassquake aired every Friday for five years. It was the United States's first drum and bass/jungle program to air on a commercial FM radio station. [37] [38] [39] [40]
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