“I was playing house, tribal and electro and I really loved every second of it! I kept my residency there for two and a half years until I decided I wanted to spread my wings a bit.”,A move to Marbella brought 8 months of club gigs, followed by a season in Ibiza which inspired Ida musically like no other place. “I guess it was there it really started” says Ida.
The owner immediately changed her job description to DJ, and put her in the main room, kicking off her DJ career proper. At this time I was playing lounge music, ambient and soulful house.”,Ida honed her mixing skills and bagged her second residency through more fortuitous timing – working as a host at a big nightclub, Spy Bar, she stepped in for the errant resident DJ who’d had a skinful and promptly disappeared, leaving the dancefloor in silence. “I was probably a terrible DJ” she says modestly, “but he loved the music so he booked me every Friday. Ida talked her way onto the decks on the proviso that if it wasn’t working after half an hour she’d get off again – by the time she’d finished playing she’d secured her first weekly residence.
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It makes for a refreshingly authentic and human to her burgeoning career in music, a gift that makes curious onlookers instant fans.Ģ7-year-old Ida Engberg started DJing hip hop and soul aged 14 after a boyfriend showed her how to mix, but she says “I had absolutely no plans on becoming a DJ, I just saw it as a new way to listen to and interact with music and I loved it!” But fate had other plans – while at a friend’s bar aged 18 his regular DJ called in sick. Kristensen embodies this, giving the best show of herself in any given point of time without being performative or buttoned-up. There’s also the perfection of imperfection in a flash of energy, a sense of freedom in the face of stultifying codes and norms. The character she exudes as a person, and not just a playlist-for-hire, mirrors it too: a whirlwind in the booth, it’s rare not to see her wide grin glinting through a motion blur of fader tricks, sashaying and vigorous air drumming. There are a few reasons it’s a snug fit: for a start, the immediate associations are smoke and strobes, lasers and lights, big-league rave bliss and barely-marshalled sonic chaos that is to say, maximum fun from a dancefloor perspective, something Kristensen keenly channels as a DJ. If you had to melt down the appeal of Anastasia Kristensen to just two words, it could well be ‘energy flash’.