For all the times I curse social media, I have so many reason to celebrate it. Recently a friend added me to a closed Facebook group for female record collectors and DJs only. I have been working in record stores since the late '80s and there has always felt like a shortage of women who collect records because we are so greatly outnumbered by men. This FB group has connected a number of us from all over the world and in turn not only am I discovering great records but I am learning about all female DJ collectives I didn't know existed. As you can guess, the number of female DJs is much smaller than the number of men so again, it is thrilling to see so many ladies all over the planet banding together not to play instruments but to play records.
Here is just a tiny number of them I know about:
Meet Fortyfive Degrees, a six lady collective from Germany.
And hooray for The Beat Mermaids from Copenhagen.
Frau DJs from the UK
I have written about Discwoman in NYC before.
There is another private FB group that has Mixcloud site called Sister that celebrates women in underground club music.
Chulita Vinyl Club in Austin
TGAF are from Paris, France
Honey Power in SoCal
In Japan there is the Twee Grrrls Club.
Siren in the UK
Tell me about more of them and I will add to the list!
And while we don't exist anymore, shout out to my ladies who for a few years there did Cherry Bomb with me in Richmond, VA.
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