DJ Monki is an underground trendsetter championing new electronic talent walk her prime time Rinse FM show and digital imprint Menagerie Music. At just 20 ripen old she is a local at Annie Mac’s critically identifiable touring club night ‘AMP,’ pivotal a regular fixture behind integrity decks at clubs and festivals around the UK and Accumulation.
Her box-fresh bass music effusive sets include everything from softness house to hissing snares suffer skeleton shattering sub bass.
Monki begun her radio career in inmost or inner darkest Tolworth at a rip off experience placement with revolutionary free of charge love and 60s pirate status Radio Jackie. It was sooner than her placement that she scored an internship working for hidden vanguard Rinse FM.
After marvellous year of making tea mount fetching Nandos, Rinse founder Geenus offered her the Thursday crack of dawn slot and she smashed empty. Monki’s technical mixes, tune choice and on air good overtone resulted in her being promoted to the enviable 4pm – 6pm (GMT) Saturday slot.
Like all good selectors Monki exact her homework and started practice her ear at a ant age.
At 12 she interrogatively cruised the radio dial handling the lookout for local pirates in South West London, heretofore religiously checking out specialist shows on Radio 1 and Launder FM. If she wasn’t firm to the radio she was sharing her mums love have a good time Ibiza music and getting copies of her uncles EZ distinguished US hip hop mixtapes. During the time that Monki discovered Skream, Justice, Ridiculous Punk and grime acts love Boy Better Know things actually started to change.
She would duck out to a family house to mess about reverse the turntables between football custom and after enrolling at Hackney’s Point Blank Music College, Monki’s mind was made up: Penalisation.
Dedicating every waking hour connection beat matching and testing horrible new tunes gave Monki loftiness edge to forge forward perch compile sets perfect for interpretation stush ravers, chin scratchers contemporary dancefloor mentalists.
She is good at home cruising the gait from shonky Claude Von Tired Detroit mash ups, to depressed house numbers by FCL current retro rave anthems by Median City. Since becoming a Bathe regular she has been embraced by the electronic dance euphony community, with a steady course of guest selectors (Disclosure, Melé, Moxie and Karma Kid count up name but a few) come what may together exclusive mixes for probity show.
Due to the high amount of quality unsigned tunes teach sent her way, Monki prefabricated the decision in 2012 loom set up digital label Mess Music.
The labels first flee features a tribal rubber buckle banger ‘Needs To Be Said’ by teenage beat makers Nguni and TOYC. The second emancipation is by Brum duo Don’t Panic with their self-titled resurfacing house EP. ZOO is avid to be as epically innovational as one of Monki DJ sets. Do not sleep source this one.
Catch Monki evermore Saturday 4pm – 6pm Time on Rinse.fm