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AUSTRALIAN REPORT Jumping through Hoops: (from far left) DJs Nina Las Vegas, Bad Ezzy and Anna Lunoe. HOOPS Thank sass & bide. If the designing duo had never hired three Sydney friends – Anna Lunoe, Bad Ezzy, and Nina Las Vegas – to DJ one of their parties, Hoops, now one of the country’s most beloved DJ trios, may never have S R TOP existed. “I had been booked to do the OLD CAN S WEA ; G R RI gig on my own,” recalls Lunoe, 27, one ) T F USK of Sydney’s premier DJs. “But they WEA AME LE ) H Y R wanted more girls, so I brought along B AT A I GHT TS (F Nina and Ezzy. It was the first time R AN I (RI we’d ever played together, and it just OE OWN SHO N ; S ’ worked. We were a bit of a hit.” N R IOSSELL A LU Indeed they were. Since that fate- NNA Y BO A LAS VEGAS B A N ful night, they have spent the best ANN . NG NI WAS part of three years bringing their ; RI RY. RY. ACELET party-startin’ tunes to the nation’s TE OODOO F A ; BR clubs and festival stages, and even sup- Y V OODOO N R I ROMANCE B porting hip-hop legends Salt-n-Pepa Y V NA Y B B RY RY RI E along the way. “We were so excited,” I RY RY KAT OUBOUT E TOP I remembers Ezzy, 26. “At the end of HOS Y L S ; B R their show, they let everyone come AN HOS I ; UP - COM ST on stage, and we got to dance with WEA . ) RI E CA H I the whole crew. It was amazing.” R MAKE Y C F. F. The three first met years ago, when B OHNSTON CENT CLEKT ( Y J they were all working at FBi, a Sydney KOP E L HOES RZ AT ZZY community radio station. And while E ; S they’ve now all moved on to careers of EL Y KIRRI CHWA ALON R B BAD . their own (DJing for Lunoe and Nina S Y F R S PPA B FF O Las Vegas; promoting for Ezzy), there’s A U F S ; C OODOO something special that comes when N CAN I RRI RI Y V they work together. “We’re best friends, BANGLE B MO É ME E and we have really similar tastes in RY RY I E Y A I OUBOUT B CK music,” explains Las Vegas, 26 (who I L V AMANT ; TS HOS AN hosts Triple J’s House Party show). ; I R ; DI ST “We each have strong opinions, so it’s USK SHO RI H H THNELL I always interesting, but fun.” AULCH AT W AND Y C R “It can be a pretty lonely existence B F B A R O ANT B TTA if you travel by yourself,” adds Ezzy. R ; G BI “We travel together, we play music S Y SHOES OUSE ; B XI HOES together, we have fun and share every- EL IR Y H LE S R B HA thing together. We even show up to Y A . TAN B I PPA S gigs in the same clothes. Our relation- A OUP É R BANGLE ship goes further than just the clubs, G CAN É RI ST and what’s better than that?” ! I OSMOPOL AMANT I T ME C D R A AMANT AT Y A I TH B I D N I W THE DANCEFLOOR FAVOURITES / TS R NG 1 “Bad Gal” – Savage Skulls LACK ALMA RI CANT SHO They’re our latest hot export I; B & Douster ; Y B E B OLD R and a new breed of DJ, sharing 2 “Clockworks” (Teki Latex & NS ; G GUCC I JAMES Para One remix) – Canblaster SISTERS Y Y DE the stage with everyone from B B CHA HEODO 3 “Love Ting” – Anna Lunoe & & BI Salt-n-Pepa to Lady Gaga. & T Wax Motif GOLD SHOES ASS APHED ; R Ti!any Bakker talks to the 4 “Lights On” (Girl Unit remix) TH Y S EL I B R W CANLAN – Katy B feat. Ms Dynamite women taking to the decks NG Y S 5 “Take Me Over” – Cut Copy B APPA RI TOP PHOTOG – and taking the world by storm 80 OF SPIN www.marieclaire.com.au 81 AUSTRALIAN REPORT DJ HAVANA BROWN If you asked DJ Havana Brown when of classic rock (“I love a bit of AC/DC”) things started to go her way, she’ll thrown in for good measure. And the tell you the same thing every time: crowds are lapping it up. “I love having when Britney Spears came calling. The that connection, and seeing that they’re Melbourne-based DJ was in the midst happy,” she smiles. “I love it when of a tour with The Pussycat Dolls there are no inhibitions and everyone’s (a good fit for her, considering her free. That’s what I do it for.” penchant for leather corsets and thigh- high boots), when she received word GO-TO SONG FOR she’d been recommended as a tour DJ A LAGGING CROWD: for Spears by the Dolls’s manager. The “Show Me Love” – Robin S. “A true 25 year old was gobsmacked. “Britney classic that still goes off in any club.” said yes. I couldn’t believe it. The first show I did with her in France is one I’ll never forget,” she says. Like a lot of DJs, Brown came to the EMILY SCOTT profession almost by default. She’d If Emily Scott’s childhood is any indica- been living in London, pursuing a career tion, a career as a DJ was always on the as a musician. When the band she was cards. “My younger brother and fronting broke up, she took solace in I always used to play ‘radio station’. the city’s booming club scene, but We’d create our own mixes and play was frustrated by the DJs she found them on our boombox,” giggles the 27 there. “I wanted them to play music year old. “If only I still had those tapes!” I wanted to hear,” explains Brown. But the road from lounge room to “Music people could dance to.” live show wasn’t exactly immediate. Within weeks, she had moved back The Gold Coast native took her first job to Australia, hell-bent on pursuing a as a lighting technician at a club, some- life behind the decks. It was a challenge, thing she says was helpful because, “It at first. “Guys were very bitchy and pro- got me up there with the DJ four nights AT tective,” she states. “The attitude was, a week, really seeing what kind of posi- BY ‘She gets gigs just because she’s a girl.’ tive effect you could have on people, UEEN PPAREL Q A That’s infuriating because I work my and how satisfying that could be.” C M little tush off. Being a girl doesn’t mean Scott headed to London in her early ARRINGS it comes to you on a platter.” Still, it’s 20s, where she forged a successful ; E MERICAN ANDER X A COM not difficult to see how Brown quickly career as a model (in 2007, she made . LE BY quieted the doubters and became an FHM UK’s top 100 sexiest women in A BY SUIT international sensation (she has shared the world), but the music bug wouldn’t the stage with everyone from Rihanna be kept at bay. Soon, she was practising CLEKTICA E ODY SHOES AT ; B to Lady Gaga, and has just signed a on the decks at home. “I didn’t even ; 12-month contract to play at Chateau have a proper table to put them on. But ONES ANNIJO Nightclub & Gardens in Las Vegas); her I would still just sit there for hours and J URBERRY D AN sets integrate everything from hip-hop hours playing the same song.” B BY D BY and R&B to house music – with a touch She knew, however, that she would BY RING need to come home to pursue a full- DRESS JACKET OLD blown career. “Once I did, things started to move really fast.” Indeed, in ; G IVA WEARS the two short years since she played her D FEATHER BY TT first professional gigs, she’s already O C become one of the region’s most S RING WEARS Y L in-demand DJs, regularly playing at I WARZKOPF. EMILY SCOTT’S HAIR EMILY BY JAMES PEARCE/NAMES. WARZKOPF. MAKE-UP BY KATRINA DANCEFLOOR FAVOURITES M WN E O venues across Australia and Asia. In CH . FINGER 1 “Body Language” – Booka Shade 2009, Pioneer signed her as a ProDJ, BR USK A 2 “Pogo” – Digitalism OLD N joining international heavyweights H A ; G AT 3 “Intro” – Alan Braxe and Fred Falke V Roger Sanchez and Armin van Buuren A H 4 “The Human Bond” – Kevin Saunderson on the company’s roster. For Scott, it’s OUISE MORRIS FOR S 5 “Who’s Afraid Of Detroit” E a dream come true. “I love having music L ISS – Claude Von Stroke OSSELLIANI M I as the thing that drives my life.” ! PHOTOGRAPHED BROWN’S BY HAIR HAVANA JAMES BY CANT/THE GRANT ARTIST WITHNELL; GROUP. VICKI RAFTERY. REPORTAGEAUSTRALIAN REPORT DJ MINX Standing on the stage at last year’s Stereosonic festival, DJ Minx (aka Rachel Phillips) took a moment to reflect. There she was in front of thou- sands at one of Australia’s premier dance events, sharing the stage with DJ heavyweights like Paul van Dyk and Calvin Harris.

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