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Rachel Auburn, 47, is a yoga teacher and bestselling DJ. She has a son, Jack, from a previous relationship. She is now single and lives in London.
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On 1999's Tidy Girls EP, four of the leading ladies of hard house - Rachel Auburn, Lisa Lashes, Anne Savage and Lisa Pin-Up - collaborated with Tidy Boys' Amadeus Mozart and Andy Pickles for a stone cold classic.
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"We made a couple of the very first bounce tracks," he says, referencing 1999's 'Tidy Girls' EP, which they wrote with Lisa Lashes and Rachel Auburn.
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Mixed by Rachel Auburn, it's a work of art - proper dance music. Buy it.
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