Lady M

Lady M is a Cape Town based artist with a unique and intelligent electronic sound, continuously earning herself recognition and becoming noted as the country's leading and original female artist in the genre of deep house and tech. She initially began playing on vinyl in her late teens and moved onto hosting residencies at various cocktail bars before making her mark on the nightclub and festival circuit. Today she has embraced the digital era and performs using Serato Scratch Live, using either cd players or turntables. Whether indulging and laying out groovy downtempo beats, house or techno, her sound is deeply bass driven, percussive and melodic. She enjoys experimenting within the darker realm but is versatile within her genres and has the innate ability to balance the feminine with the masculine in her sets. The result is an inviting sound that offers an explosive journey for both body and mind. With a need for challenge and to get to the source, she studied Advanced Music Production and is currently working hard in her home studio and is also a frequent at the Red Bull Studios. The result is a true Lady M sound that is an expression of purely her and her love for the electronica. She is also one of the very few female artists in South Africa to be producing and the first female to release a solo record with her debut 'Solitude' EP, released in January 2013 on Triplefire Music with more releases and remixes scheduled for later in the year. The past year has brought on many new ventures for Lady M, playing her sultry sounds everywhere around Cape Town and now on the national circuit, putting her up there with SA's serious and best talents and also fitting the bill for internationals such as Inland Knights, Nick Maleedy, Jordan Peak, James What, Claudia Lovisa and Stimming. She has become part of the Make-Believe crew where she plays at their unique location events and is represented alongside some of Cape Town's finest underground artists. For some fun she dabbles in online radio presenting, intermittently co-hosting the 'Each Hit And I' show on Assembly Radio. In July 2012 she indulged herself in an European sonic education where she played in Amsterdam and Berlin and took in the international techno scene and culture. She is currently enjoying the summer festival season on home soil and is fine-tuning her performances, focusing on production, working at launching her own label 'Magique Music' and planning her next Europe experience.