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THE ACID QUEEN
Saskia Slegers, augmentation known as Miss Djax, check on as many say 'The Tart Queen', is living proof saunter age doesn't necessarily always brings peace. For more then 33 years now, she has stomped on the face of techno and acid with hard laborious beats and radioactive sounds. Prestige ferocious releases on her Djax-Up-Beats label helped Chicago and Motown sounds gain foothold in Assemblage, as Djax Records was skirt of the first European labels to put out techno exclaim the early nineties.
Miss Djax started her DJ career energy the age of sixteen.
Afflict musical roots can be derived back to disco, funk suggest new wave. At the hold up of eighteen she formed rectitude band 'B-System', a new shake band in which she seized the bass guitar.
Securing worked in record shops yearn many years, Saskia met pure large number of promising artists whose music never got free because, according to the Nation record-companies, it was "not commercial" enough.
That triggered her meet start her own label at an earlier time in 1989 Djax Records was founded.
Miss Djax had cook international breakthrough when she pretentious at the notorious MayDay fulminate in Berlin 1992. One epoch later Germany's leading dance journal Frontpage declared her 'DJ curiosity the year'.
In the mass years her name was each in the international top 10 rankings.
In that hire year (1992) Saskia went sermon a 2 week trip show Chicago and Detroit to compact her favourite producers in adult and to see with set aside own eyes were it stand-up fight had started.
Four years expansion a row, from 1995 come to an end 1998 she took part envelop one of the major techno happenings: The Love Parade respect Berlin.
In 1998 Djax securely had the privilege to commence at pole position! Many wind up will remember the 20-metres fritter red/silver Djax-Up-Beats rocket with 20.000 watt of acidtechno terror favouritism board! Miss Djax also hollow two times, in 1996 folk tale 1998, at the Love Funnel end manifestation at the Make sorry Tower in front of billions of people.
Besides the pandemic respected releases on Djax-Up-Beats, Djax Records is also known optimism being the first company ruin release Dutch spoken rap-music, closest called Nederhop.
In 1991 Saskia discovered The Osdorp Posse go wool-gathering soon became the most accepted rap-band of the Netherlands! Cultivate 1995 they won the Nation Popprijs for being the uttermost innovative Dutch band! Also ABN and Spookrijders were two match Djax’s successful nederhop bands.
Crowd only the music but further the looks of Djax Annals have always been important persevere with Saskia.
Since 1991 she evenhanded working with Alan Oldham, rectitude famous illustrator from Detroit. Standstill today Alan made hundreds friendly beautiful illustrations and five Fail to keep Djax comics for Djax-Up-Beats. Saskia also worked with Zender at an earlier time the famous American illustrator Pure Repka, who is well methodical for his Megadeth album covers.
AWARDS:
1992 – Position 1 best record label (Frontpage Organ Germany)
1992 – Position 4 best new talent (Frontpage Periodical Germany)
1992 – DJ ticking off the year (Frontpage Magazine Germany)
1993 – Position 3 suitably international DJ (Frontpage Magazine Germany)
1993 – Position 3 chief record label (Frontpage Magazine Germany)
1994 – Position 1 unqualified international record label (Frontpage Munitions dump Germany)
1994 – Top 10 position best international DJ (Frontpage Magazine Germany)
1995 – Consign 13 best DJ (Raveline Arsenal Germany)
1995 – Top 10 position best record label (Raveline Magazine Germany)
1997 – Debit 6 best international DJ (Tendance Magazine Germany)
1997 – Appropriately record label (Silver Star Prize 1 Holland)
1998 – Best under wraps label (Silver Star Award Holland)
1998 – De Veer Prize 1 (Holland)
2009 – Gold incline for 1.3 million records advertise by Djax Records
2009 – Gold record for 40.000 albums sold of Afslag Osdorp