If you keep an eye on the line-up for this years Movement Festival you’ll notice only a handful of females on the bill. There are several smaller female artists and then this years front ladies like Cassy and Magda and also Ida Engberg.
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Engberg, a Swedish blondeshell and highly talented DJ has enjoyed a sudden rise over the last couple of years thanks to her skills behind the decks and the game-changing success of her track Disco Volante. (See, it can be done kids!). Now she features regularly at Adam Beyer’s Drumcode nights, and is establishing herself as a worthy international headliner. We thought we’d catch up with her before her show at Movement to find out a little more…
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You’re from Stockholm. Can you explain how you got your first gigs there, and for anyone visiting Stockholm what clubs do you recommend?
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When I started to DJ in Stockholm I was just 18. It was a friend who was running a bar, and the DJ called in sick so he didn’t have one so I just jumped in for somebody else.
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That was my first gig and I finally got the residency there and they fired their old DJ so they apparently liked it a little. Then I played in smaller bars and clubs and then larger clubs, then I moved to Spain and I was living in Ibiza and I was playing there for a while. (more…)