Saskia Slegers Explained

Saskia Slegers
Nationality:Dutch
Occupation:DJ, music producer

Saskia Slegers (born 1962)[1], known professionally as Miss Djax, is a Dutch DJ and producer who has run the influential music label Djax since 1989.

Career

Based in Eindhoven, Slegers started to DJ, make and release dance music in the 1980s. She set up the label Djax in 1989, investing 10,000 guilders. Her first release of 1,000 records sold out in a week, so she pressed up more copies and immediately recouped her start up costs. Looking back in 2009, she said "It was a question of the right time, the right decision and the right product".[2] Another early success was signing the Amsterdam hip hop group Osdorp Posse in 1991. In the early 1990s, Slegers started to put on techno parties at the Effenaar in Eindhoven.[3] As well as techno and hip hop, Slegers made and released breakcore.[4] She was voted Best DJ by the German magazine Frontpage in 1992.[5]

Label

Slegers' record label Djax and its subsidiaries played a large role in introducing Chicago-style techno to the Netherlands and promoting it around the world. It has released artists such as Armando, Robert Armani and Mike Dearborn.[6] After ten years, she produced a book entitled 1989 – 1999 Djax Records. To celebrate thirty years of the label, Slegers organised a twelve-hour party at Elementenstraat in Amsterdam in late 2019. The label has over 400 releases.[7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Van der Doelen . Jaap . Miss Djax - Saskia Slegers uit Eindhoven - regeert in mannenwereld . 10 June 2020 . ED . 16 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200102235546/https://www.ed.nl/cultuur/miss-djax-saskia-slegers-uit-eindhoven-regeert-in-mannenwereld~a21444a3/ . 2 January 2020 . live .
  2. News: Van den Muijsenberg . Frank . Miss Djax wil geen digitale fabriek zijn . Het Parool . 28 August 2009 . nl-NL . Een kwestie van het juiste moment, de juiste beslissing en het juiste product..
  3. Book: Brewster . Bill . Broughton . Frank . Last Night A DJ Saved My Life : the History Of The Disc Jockey . 13 May 2014 . Grove/Atlantic, Inc . 9780802194367.
  4. News: Miss Djax Saskia Slegers: "Ik dacht: wat ben ik toch een niksnut, dat moet anders" . 10 June 2020 . 3voor12 . VPRO . 26 March 2004 . nl.
  5. Web site: Djax Up Beats . Oxford Reference . Encyclopedia of Popular Music . 10 June 2020 . en .
  6. News: Koning . Alexander . Mother of acid-techno, Saskia Slegers, viert dertigjarig bestaan Djax Records . 10 June 2020 . Maxazine . 11 December 2019 . nl . https://web.archive.org/web/20191213234854/https://www.maxazine.nl/2019/12/11/mother-of-acid-techno-saskia-slegers-viert-dertigjarig-bestaan-djax-records/ . 13 December 2019 . live .
  7. News: Güldenpfennig . Peter . Ondernemen in de underground: een interview met Saskia Slegers . 10 June 2020 . Baaz . 2 May 2020 . nl . https://web.archive.org/web/20161012080156/http://www.baaz.nl/content/ondernemen-in-de-underground-een-interview-met-saskia-slegers . 12 October 2016 . live .