Headph0ne Phet1sh is one of the stranger sites that we’ve come across recently. It’s a site devoted to “all manner of ladies wearing all kinds of headphones.”
They aren’t kidding, either. The site has collected hundreds, if not thousands of photos of woman in headphones. The site caters to all manners of headphone fetishists. Here’s a […]
Chicks That Mix: Liz Revision
Liz McLean Knight, aka Liz Revision, describes herself as “a multi-websited busybody, experimental electronic musician, and jewelry designer, with a love of all things technologically innovative and geek-chic.”
We found her site while checking out some dj-geek wear and were impressed. Knight’s got one of the coolest portfolios of projects that we’ve seen:
Produces experimental / […]
Chicks That Mix: Reid Speed
DJ/producer Reid Speed began career in the New York City drum & bass underground in the nineties, when it was still a bit of a novelty for a woman to be DJing. She quickly built a reputation, though, in the word of drum and bass.
Since then, she’s toured the world spinning drum and bass, […]
The latest DJ in our series of Chicks that Mix is 23-year-old Montreal native Vivie-Ann.
Vivie-Ann says her sets cover everything house with a hint of ping or pong – anything that makes hands fly in the air. When asked to describe her sound, Vivie-Ann says it’s “bump in the night with a little dynamite,” adding […]
Chicks That Mix: DJ Anastasia
Dj Anastasia was born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1985. Since she was a child, she has loved music, dancing, playing piano and guitar.
When she was 16, Anastasia fell in love with electronic music and made her first attempts to mix vinyl.
Since then, DJ Anastasia has played with Felix da Housecat; DJ Diamond, Dj Dan, Deep […]
Chicks That Mix: DJ Amber
Amber Nixon is a San Francisco-based techno and tech-house DJ and producer with a taste for driving beats and aggressively risky mixing.
Aggressive and risky is good.
Her unique approach to mixing is featured on her three CD releases, Live with Friends and Family (2004), Gold (2002), and CityDweller (2001), and her latest track, Your Love, is […]
Suzanne Ciani Talks Synths
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This classic video from the kids’ program 3-2-1 Contact, produced by Children’s Television Workshop, features pioneering synthesist Suzanne Ciani talking about how synthesizers work:
In the video, Ciani is brilliant, gorgeous and geektacular, if you can look beyond the amazing array of sexy classic synth gear.
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Topless DJs Going Mainstream
When we first found Portia Surreal, the topless DJ, we thought that she was an anomaly. Surreal’s background is in the underground fetish and goth scenes, and she bills herself as an erotic fetish dj extraordinaire.
When DJ Diva came to our attention, it was clear that Surreal wasn’t spinning topless along. Diva may have topped […]
DJ Diva joins DJ Portial Surreal on the short list of topless DJs. She’s probably the only topless skydiving DJ, though!
She started her career in 2002, taking a training course at the Dutch DJ school in amsterdam. At her first gig, it was very hot and several women were topless, so she took her top […]
Jessica Vale is a multimedia artist based in New York city. Her debut CD, The Sex Album, features eleven tracks made from the sounds of recorded sex, manipulated into melodies, beats and ambience.
“Every sound you hear that is not a vocal, was once live sex,” explains Vale. “We did not use a ‘traditional’ instrument on […]
DJ Lisa Lashes, sometimes known as the Queen of Hard House, is one of the top DJs in the world. With her mix albums and busy schedule of performances, she has attracted a global following.
Lisa is the first and only female to be considered among the top ten DJs in the world by DJ Magazine, […]
Hypnotique is a multi-talented artist that incorporates the theremin, one of the earliest electronic music instruments, into much of her work. She has many guises, working professionally as a multi-instrumental musician, actress, performance artists, radio producer and music educator.
In this exclusive interview, Hypnotique talks about her work, making it as an alternative musician, the sensuality […]
Cynthia Webster is the synthesist and designer behind Cyndustries, a company that makes modular analog synthesizers. She recently shared her thoughts with Synthtopia about a variety of topics, including the analog vs. digital debate, Nietzsche, women in electronic music, the mystery of “wishbone127″ and even banana envy.
Webster is an electronic music veteran. In high school, Webster […]
Pink Noises
In the world of electronic music, pink noise is white noise, or random sound, that is filtered to seem balanced to our earrs. In the world of electronica web sites, Pink Noises focuses on providing a balanced view of women in electronic music.
Pink Noises offers profiles of women in electronic music, and book, video, and […]
Portia Surreal - The Topless DJ
Here’s proof that all it takes to get ahead in the competitive DJ world is a great pair…
Of turntables. And something tells us that if they are full of plastic, the clubbers will be up all night.
DJ Portia Surreal, is “up and coming”, according to her site, as a New York DJ and “glowing disco […]



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