
Qzen - Moxie Music - Apr 2007
Submitted By:
trocknroll
Genre: House
Date of Set: Apr 29th, 2007
Filesize: 98.44 MB
Total Downloads: 1
Biography of Qzen
After cutting her teeth on San Francisco's underground music scene throughout the 1990s with photography, graphic/web design, and event promotion, Qzen commenced her DJ career as the decade closed. With a nod to the classics, she's delved deep into the forefront of future music, allowing crowd reaction to direct--but not dictate--her selection.
In her six years of experience, Qzen's skills as a DJ have taken her to Canada and Mexico, as well numerous cities in the US. In the early '00s, she expanded her repertoire from her drum & bass roots to a hybrid of tech-house, electro, and techno, shirking genre to incorporate countless party-jams-waiting-to-be-played.
Qzen spent many years investing in drum & bass culture with the female-run production collective Groundscore and their internationally recognized weekly, Eklektic. Since 1997, the ladies of Groundscore have pushed the music far and wide: in addition to producing one of the longest running drum & bass weeklies in San Francisco's history, they have orchestrated various one-off events--including a handful in Miami during the Winter Music Conference--featuring top headliners such as Kemistry & Storm, Andy C, and Grooverider, as well as favorites Fierce, Marcus Intalex, and Klute.
2004 saw success with another project: The Invisibles, a live 'electro-punk' band comprised of Alex Posell (a.k.a. renowned producer/DJ Abstract) on drums/production, vocalist/keyboardist Kimi Recor, and Qzen on synth/backing vocals. After the release of the 'BlahBlahBlah EP' on DJ Hell's International Deejay Gigolo label, the group continued to receive great response to their live shows before geographic circumstances created their current hiatus. Also in 2004, Qzen's vocal collaboration with techno producer John Tejada, entitled 'Sweat (On the Walls),' was released on Poker Flat; the record ranked number one for two months straight in Germany's Groove Magazine and continues to get play worldwide.
2005 saw the release of three more singles with Tejada: 'Paranoia' & 'Sucre,' available on his own label Palette Recordings, and a remix of Christopher Just's 'Disco Dancer' out now on the aforementioned Gigolo. ('Paranoia' was called out as one of Pitchfork's Top Ten Techno tracks of the year.) Qzen launched a new party, Moxie, with partner Bryan James and in conjunction, has a weekly radio show, Moxie Musik, on westaddradio.com (airs live Sundays 9-11PM from San Francisco). She was asked to join forces with Fistfight, local label and ladies to be reckoned with, traveled to France & Germany to perform with Tejada, and had the opportunity to rock the SF Love Parade on two floats.
Currently, Qzen works as iTunes's Dance & Electronic Music Editor and continues to DJ regularly. With her passion for deep, technical, versatile music and a talent for moving the audience, Qzen's DJ sets are not to be missed.