
Forest Green - Evil Tower of Babylon - 2005
Submitted By:
MPIIIMan
Genre: Electronic
Date of Set: 2005
Filesize: 49.60 MB
Total Downloads: 2
Biography of Forest Green
Forest Green spins Techno, Electro, House, Minimal and various derivatives of all other electronic dance music. She's been DJing for 6 years.
Forest grew up studying and performing music starting with choir, and piano lessons around the age of 8, then moving into private voice lessons, classical training and musical theater while continuing choir. Come time for college Forest auditioned and was accepted as a Voice Major to Cal State U. Northridge and San Francisco State U. She went on to continue her studies in classical, opera, and jazz at Cal State Northridge for four intense years until she decided to transfer to SFSU and go in a different direction. Completing her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State in 1995 with an emphasis in computer and digital arts, digital video, video editing, theater and music.
She is a featured DJ in the popular, indie film, GROOVE. (GROOVE website). Groove was accepted to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in 2000, and was the first film bought that year by Sony Picture Classics. Groove is based on one night in the San Francisco underground dance scene going off back in the early 1990s.
Forest is involved in many projects and collectives through out the San Francisco Bay Area, including residencies with SISTER SF, Cloud Factory, Cloud Factory Collective for the Arts, and Friends and Family. Sister SF is a supportive and positive all female DJ collective that was started in 1997 and has now expanded to NYC and Portland, OR. CF, CFCA, and FnF are completely off the hook collectives of DJs, lighting designers, fashion designers, audio, and video artists, musicians, and many others.
Forest also has the intense honor of being part of many collectives based in Canada. She is a proud member of the DJ collective, technoWest, of Vancouver, British Colombia, including founding DJs Tobias of Shrumtribe, and Dub Gnostic. She also has the extreme pleasure of working with, and being hosted by techno.ca located in Toronto, Ontario. Audio archives of one of Forest's early mixed tapes may be found on the techno.ca site in the DJ digital audio database.
With partner Chris Burfinea concept has grown: Organized Chaos. Organized Chaos is a title under which these two artists DJ, produce, and create video, art and electronic music. Forest and Chris are very pleased to have helped create the weekly, Minimal Monday, at The Hush Hush Lounge in San Francisco, and can be seen there spinning minimal grooves regularly alongside fellow residents Joe Rice, Terrac, Clairity, Creamy Goodness and Sariah Storm. Minimal Monday features minimal techno, electro, micro house, IDM, trip-hip-hop, dub, downtempo and experimental music.
Forest and Chris hosted a weekly internet show on Radio Haze St., but the show is temporarily on hold while they revamp to web cast.
She is a proud new resident of the monthly, Club Wednesday, at The Stud in San Francisco. As she finds free time in her hustle and bustle life she continues to work on her own music production! Her G4 laptop winks at her lovingly from across the room! ;)
Previous to Forest's residencies at Minimal Monday, and Club Wednesday she was a resident at the techno and drum n bass monthly, Sonic Manipulations, and the techno monthly, Scatter, alongside fellow residents, Seraphim (Sister SF), Dominatrix (Infinite Beat), Clairity (Impulse), and Lisa Fox (Scatter).
She held a bi-weekly residency, doing a live, 2 hour, mixed show on Groovetech, San Francisco from January of 2000 to March 2002. A few of her Groovetech archives still remain on the Groovetech website^Å you can locate them by clicking broadcasts, and then archives, and then typing in the artist name box, Forest Green, and click the yellow search button.
She was the past host, and resident DJ on the weekly web cast, Abstract Communications Network, with fellow host and resident DJ Ki, every Wednesday on Technostate.com for one year from January 1998 to 1999. You can find the archives here: http://www.technostate.com/version3.0/shows/acn.html
For more online mixes and information do a search for forest green on Thump Radio, and Glowstick.net On Glowstick.net look under DJs and then Forest Green. Check out livedjs.com also.
One last past project of interest was Tetractys, started in October 1999, Forest, MC Linzee, and Lucas, began the heavily conceptual monthly, Tetractys with residents, Andy W., Forest Green and Sync Synthetic.
Lil' note from Forest... 'Everything I have learned about peace, love, unity and respect in the past five years I have learned from my families... Cloud Factory, Friends and Family, SISTER SF, Technostate, technoWest, technolist, techno.ca, St. John's Rhythm Society, Organized Chaos, and my ever growing family everywhere else around the world. I want to thank you all for showing me the way, teaching me how to open up and really give love freely, and showing me what true love is! I feel truly, truly blessed! You comfort and challenge me. You inspire and teach me. But most of all, you love me, and this gift you have so generously given me spreads further everyday until one beautiful day it shall embrace each and every one of us! You all give me the strength and the will to go out daily and share my own gifts, my passions and love with the world and beyond! United we can do anything! Thank you family! I love you all!!!'