Octo Octa

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Maya Bouldry-Morrison , known under the stage name Octo Octa (born 1987 in Chicago ), is an American house producer and DJ.

Life

She grew up in New Hampshire , where she experimented with various forms of electronic music, including drum and bass and IDM, in her youth . As a student at the University of New Hampshire , she formed the dance band Horny Vampyre with others. Under the stage name Octo Octa, she continued to create more experimental music as a solo artist. In 2010 she discovered house music for herself. In the same year she moved to Brooklyn .

Her breakthrough came in 2011 when she released her first EP Let Me See You on Los Angeles- based house label 100% Silk . She became one of the label's most important artists. Her first appearance in Europe was in the Panorama Bar in Berlin .

Together with her partner Eris Drew , whom she met in 2017, she founded the label T4T LUV NRG in 2019.

In 2016 she came out publicly as a trans person via a report in the online magazine Resident Advisor . It has been since 2012 when she wrote an article about trans singer Laura Jane Grace from Against Me! in Rolling Stone was reading, she began to recognize their gender identity.

Her influences include the label Tigerbeat6 and the musician DJ Sprinkles .

Discography

Albums

  • Rough, Rugged, And Raw, 100% Silk, 2011
  • LA Vampires, 100% Silk, 2012
  • Between Two Selves, 100% Silk, 2013, SILK046
  • Where Are We Going ?, HNYTRX, 2017, HNY-015
  • Resonant Body, T4T LUV NRG, 2019, T4T002

Singles and EPs

  • Let Me See You, 100% Silk, 2011
  • Oh Love, 100% Silk, 2012
  • Cause I Love You, 100% Silk, 2014
  • Where Did You Go / Through the Haze Argot, 2014
  • More Times Running Back, 2015
  • Requiem For The Body Stays Underground It Pays, 2015
  • Further Trips Deepblak, 2015
  • Where Are We Going ?, HNYTRX, 2017
  • My Feelings Toward You Love Notes, 2017
  • Frndzne 01 Frendzone !, 2017
  • New Paths Argot, 2017
  • Aimless Skylax, 2017
  • Adrift Honey Soundsystem Records, 2017
  • Devotion EP Naive (3), 2018
  • For Lovers Technicolor, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Will Coldwell: DJ Octo Octa on coming out as transgender: 'Everyone was confused, then it was OK' . In: The Guardian . March 28, 2017, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed March 17, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c d Octo Octa: Between two selves. In: Resident Advisor . Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Octo Octa. In: Discogs. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  4. ↑ T4T LUV NRG. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Eris Drew and Octo Octa: Love vibrations. In: Crack Magazine. Retrieved March 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Octo Octa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouldry-Morrison, Maya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago