Baltimore’s Jen Lasher has a unique reach within electronic music. With a background that touches on everything from industrial to rock and yes, Bmore, her musical point of view is part electronic and part grit, leading the east coast spitfire to work alongside everyone from Shiny Toy Guns to Tommie Sunshine and Oh Snap! Boasting not only a prestigious DJ resume, but production and vocalist accolades to boot, Lasher shows that girls wanna have fun…and kick ass at the same time. Following Reid Speed’s tour of LA, Lasher now takes the reins, giving the low down on Baltimore/DC Tri-State Area hotspots from local swimming holes to the area’s best nightclub.
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A Few of My Favorite Things Featured A Few of My Favorite Things: Reid Speed for Los Angeles
LA’s Reid Speed has been holding down bad-assery for female DJs since she began her career in 1996, just shy of graduating high school. Known not only for her extensive drum & bass background – she cut her teeth working at DJ Dara’s Breakbeat Science shop – but for electro, fidget and dubstep, Reid is one DJ that makes the word mashup sound good. Between running her label Play Me Records, extensive touring and her own production, LA’s leading lady found the time to share a few of her favorite local spots with us.
1. Best Place to have a drink watching the sunset:
Gallery Music Birthday BJ :: Green Velvet Parties With Basement Jaxx in Chicago
By midnight, the line was 200 deep outside of Soundbar – legions of house heads shivering in the drizzle with muffled kick drums audible from the street. The scene wasn’t entirely surprising – whispers about Green Velvet’s birthday party had floated around Chicago for weeks. The excitement was palpable – not only did the lineup feature Velvet kicking off his new Soundbar residency, but also UK superstar duo Basement Jaxx and Chicago ex-pat Mark Farina.
Props have to be given to Velvet himself for the impressive artists gracing the bill. As Lucas King, owner of React Events and one of the promoters behind the night disclosed, “He called the Jaxx and Farina himself to play the party and arranged everything. Give Curtis [Green Velvet] a ton of love for that.” It’s certainly what he got as house lovers turned out in droves to support, both from the new and old guard, including Chris Santiago of Santiago and Bushido, Lego, James Amato of Potty Mouth Records, Sombionix and Hiroki.





