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DJ Syrena  Aug 26 2007 - 1:58pm   

For its first year effort the LA Women’s Music Festival at Woodley Park on Saturday, August 26, Females on Fire in conjunction with Gaia Rocks established a well-organized precedent for future festivals to come. Not since the Lillith Fair, has an event taken place to showcase female talent, that also embraced the principles of the Green Era, culminating in a ground-breaking eco-music event powered by solar energy. Mona Holmes of SheJay worked tirelessly to unite some of LA's finest DJ talent under its pink dance tent, and I was honored to represent with a set.

Sirsa kicked off the festivities, which I am sorry to have missed, but apparently she is also a recording artist who just finished her first album, so I look forward to checking out her live show in the near future. I caught the last party of Diosa’s set who played an old skool hip hop set which was then segwayed by a unique performance of tribal belly dancers. We all know what traditional belly dancers look like, but these women were not of the gold-coin belt breed. No, this trio had a native American and SoCal beach style about them. Very intriguing to watch, and they attracted a good number of people in time for goddess of the dance music airwaves, Holly Adams of Groove Radio 103.1 FM fame. Still rocking the decks with an all-vinyl set of good time house music party hits.

The next act was a hip hop tag-team of asian hotness, MiAMOR and SyReHN. If I were to play hip hop, I’d want to play it like these ladies. Smooth. They kept the party moving with jams, and just enough scratching to keep it real without overkill. You know the old adage how everyone has twin in the world. Well if I had a hip hop DJ twin…Yep you guessed it…Ms. SyReHN. The similarities between our names and DJ setup was uncanny. We had the same gear, MacBook running Serato on top of an Odyssey laptop stand, Shure Whitelabel needles, and Technics headphones, which she actually mistook for hers when we switched sets. Great minds think alike, I say!

For my set, I played a range of Deep, Funky, Electro and Minimal House, giving way to LA’s underground house music headliner DJ Lillyanne. It was great to share the same stage with her finally. We have communicated by email several times, and even played the same BPM magazine event some years back, but never actually met. I enjoyed the classic melodic tunes she played, all still on 100% vinyl. Respect!