An emerging voice at the vanguard of house, electro and techno, the Lady Foursquare's production work as The Riveter has put her work in the sets of luminaries ranging from Felix da Housecat to Donald Glaude, Bear Who?, and many more. In 2006 she migrated to Chicago and turned her full focus toward the music industry. Now working solo and with Angel Alanis, The Lady Foursquare has flowered as a producer, having been most recently selected to rework the upcoming Funk Monkeys release, "Remember the Time" alongside Sebastien Leger and Billy Dallesandro. She also appeared as a remixer for Punisher’s “K.O.” on the Uppercut label. With five releases in 2007, including a remix for the Dust Traxx Chicago Re-Edit's series, and many more slated for 2008, nothing is slowing down. Her work with her Backbreaker imprint appears on the popular Source compilations next to names such as the aforementioned Sebastien Leger, Paul Woolford and the Soundshift label. The Lady Foursquare was known first as a DJ, with inimitable aggressive technical flare, incredible energy and turntablist trickery. She quickly found praise from a wide range of artists, opening for Felix da Housecat (Rude Photo), Matthew Dear (Ghostly International/Minus), DJ Skribble (Bad Boy), Paul Johnson (Dust Traxx Chicago), Nigel Richards (611 Records) and Derek Plaslaiko (Spectral Recordings). In 2003, her reputation as a top regional touring DJ and the popularity of her widely distributed turntablist house DJ mixes led her to represent UFO Jeans for the United States in a 2003 tour. Her mix "Let Me Show You Love" was downloaded over 10,000 times and will shortly be met with a follow up "Let Me Show You Love II: I Love Haters" in 2008, featuring much new and unreleased material of her own. In addition to her production and remix work, you can also find the Lady on the road (occasionally tagging with Angel Alanis) and in her new home of Chicago where she's rocking crowds alongside acts such as Motor and Dirtybird. In her spare time she A+R's two labels and serves as the director for the GrooveMedia Group, which controls the digital catalogs of hundreds of top artists and labels on Groovesource. As a result of her professional work, she was chosen to speak on two panels for the 2007 Winter Music Conference on the topics of digital distribution and the online dance market with other representatives from Ghostly International, Perfecto and AOL. She has recently made waves with a critically-acclaimed remix of DJ Pierre's "Tha Dance," now available on Beatport.
Though we normally give you your fix of techno and minimal mixes, we wanted to give you a dose of The Lady Foursquare's now classic (and widely distributed) mix, "Hollerback," which mixes Chicago house classics with modern electrohouse and tech-house and a few deeper house delicacies with just a touch of techno for good measure, displaying Foursquare's raw energetic talent and impeccable ear for funky flavor. She'll be visiting Nashville for this upcoming edition of BERLIN on February 2, 2008.
Click here to download this now classic Midwest mixset.
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