One of my favourite things about DJ Gina Turner is her ability for musical versatility. Able to blend classic house sounds with new material without any dischord, Gina opts to skip focusing exclusively on “the big thing of the day” or blog haus trends. Instead, her sets weave together narratives honoring the sometimes forgotten 4am basement house jams that have carried dance music to where it is now.
2010 has brought great things for her as well- a standout single on Sound Pellegrino as half of the multiculturally dope dance outfit Nouveau Yorican, and the recent Morena Mix, created live on two CD-Js in one take.
Pulling some serious power moves these days, Gina is about to release the second Nouveau Yorican single “Jackit” on May 27th through MixMash Records, backed by some powerful Drop The Lime and Tony Senghore remixes.
I got a chance to ask Gina a bit about the past, present & future of dance music. Also included is a free mix for New York sexploitation fashion label HellzBellz!
Questions by Brendan Arnott (my text in bold).
Teki Latex called your last release “A modern take on New York’s Puerto Rican artistic identity seen through the eyes and ears of an asian Dutch house virtuoso and a half-sicilian/half-latino part-time NYC, part-time LA resident” but puts a question mark at the end of it, kind of like he’s stumped about how to label it. How would you label your sound?
Well being a born and raised New Yorker, you are in a melting pot of cultures for sure, when going into making Boriqua with Luke, I brought everything that inspired me growing up in the NY House scene. The jacking sound mixed with Latin flavor, we also wanted to bridge the gap between the underground house scene and of course the big room house scene that’s so relevant in NY.
