Daria

DARIA BIO:

Her electrifying presence behind the decks always bring people to dance non-stop, and to share their energy all together. Daria sets consist of four to the floor, sharp, sexy minimal techno tracks. She doesn’t like to walk into marked and secure musical paths, but likes to build wild, new, and precise roads that burn the dancefloor.

Daria was born in Geneva into a swiss-iranian family. Her father is an architect higly politically committed with  culture and her mother is a fashion designer and a model of rather eccentric nature. The creativity, the opening of spirit and the sense of the values, are the heritage of this artistic family circle.

In 1989, with 15 years old, Daria interested herself more into the music world. At this time, she formed a band influenced by the new wave sound, with two other musicians also from Geneva, in which she was the lead singer. They made their music with a Roland synthesizer, a groove-machine, a guitar and a bass. The band did a few gigs in different places. Then they split off in 1991 and Daria decided to focus on her graphic designer studies.

In 1996, she created her own graphic agency. Few years later, Oliver, founder of the today well known Mental Groove label, and Luciano asked her to design some records sleeves. Through this relationship, Daria dived again into music and started spinning records.

Since 2002, as Luciano, Sonja Moonear and Tsack with whom she shares the decks, she was resident dj at the amazing Weetamix club in Geneva, where she already played with most famous techno artists such as Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Craig, Daniel Bell, Ellen Allien, Michael Mayer, Derrick May, Richie Hawtin, Heiko Laux and many more... Beside this, she is often playing for different famous venues in Europe as Week12end, Watergate in Berlin invited by her friends M.a.n.d.y, Loft in Barcelona, Paris, Porto, Belgrad, Trieste, Verona, Zurich, Valencia, etc... She also does regular appearences at Loft Club in Lausanne invited by Mirko Loko and at the amazing Watergate in Berlin.

Nowadays, Daria works in her music projects in her own small home studio from few years. She already take part on Perspectiv Records, the amazing Ripperton and Samk’s swiss label, sharing rooster with artist like Lazy Fat People, Quenum, Dachshund, Agnès, Chaton, Minz, Ndru, Masaya, Quarion, Laurine Frost and more... Her track Alpaga (Perspectiv Records) were chosen by the French magazine Tsugi for the sampler CD March issue, between Autechre and Alex Under.

Her sound elegantly shifts between the lightness of warm percussions and the shinny tension of bright arpeggiated melodies, assuring the excitement of the dancer aswell the emotion of the listener. Tight grooves delicately integrated into a fulfilling musical experience.