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Sveta
DJ maven/ Producer/ Music Director/ Hysterical Woman. UKRAINIAN-AUSTRALIAN 🇺🇦 Hey music lovers & loyal listeners, like many others in the self-employed artist/music artist community, my have lost a great deal of work during the Covid pandemic. I have shared my work here for many years so please continue to enjoy dozens of my free to stream podcasts & remixes. If anyone out there can afford to send a tip after listening, I would be most grateful.
About me: Born in the Soviet Union, on the run, Sound Of Music style through Europe & eventually landing in her new home Australia, this Sydney DJ and producer is considered spinning royalty in her adopted country. Pioneering many club nights, she has worked every veritable corner of the scene — both above ground and below — to master a sound that is quintessentially Sveta.
The company this unique talent keeps is testament to her work and has seen her play along side the likes of Derrick Carter, The Presets, Frankie Knuckles, Honey Dijon, Andy Butler, Kim Ann Foxman, Kylie Minogue, Seth Troxler, Miss Kittin, Big Freedia, Scissor Sisters, Boy George, David Morales, Deep Dish, John Digweed, Victor Calderone & K-Hand to name a few. Regularly on demand, Sveta continues to work the stage with both legendary and emerging DJs who share her passion for breaking new ground.
On tour Sveta has supported artists including Peaches, Amanda Palmer, The Julie Ruin, Tommy Lee (Motley Crue), spun the beats for Shunda K (Yo Majesty!) and collaborated with Emmy Award winning pianist & composer, Lance Horne on a live piano/house set at the Sydney Opera House & BAM Brooklyn. She’s also regularly curated as a DJ/ collaborator at arts events for the Museum Of Contemporary Art, Carriageworks, Vivid Live, Opera Australia, Sydney Theatre Company & the Sydney Opera House.
She pioneered dance music on community radio from 1990, taking it out of specialist night time programming & putting it on her breakfast show on 2SER-FM, a show she continued to host for 12 years, also hosting shows on FBI, Triple J & 2DAY-FM.
As a Music Director, this multi-faceted talent has carved out an additional niche by framing some of the country’s largest fashion events, including a decade of runway soundtracks at MBFWA as well as being their resident DJ. Runway soundtracks include Chanel, VOGUE, Collette Dinnigan (Paris Fashion Week), Zimmermann, Bec & Bridge, CAMEO, AJE, Steven Khalil (Paris Couture FW), as well as her 15yr collaboration as Music Director for top Australian haute couture designer Alex Perry.
Sveta has also made her mark abroad in cities around the world, especially NYC, where she has toured extensively for 10 years & regularly plays in venues like Le Bain at The Standard Hotel & for the cities most underground and celebrated promoters and Club Kids (11:11/ LadyFag/ Susanne Bartsch/ Daniel Nardicio/ Vogue Balls)
Sveta is part of LAPLUSTRE - a performance & production collab with rock/electronic musician & DJ Estée Louder. They have remixed music for Qantas Airways, ACON, Betty Who & Indigenous superstar Jessica Mauboy & composed musical scores for RUSSH online, Oroton, Alex Perry, Indigenous Dance show NGOENAKAP & trailer music for Queer Screen. Laplustre produces original music primarily in the technosphere.
DJ Sveta is a truly multi-genre DJ. She intuitively reads her audience and plays accordingly, drawing from her enormous library of classic, current & emerging sounds, weaving her way seamlessly through the tracks. She crosses between disco, house, vogue beats to tribal, tech, techno and beyond. A 10,000+ vinyl collection spanning over 2 decades teamed with her passion for discovering new styles yields a unique freshness to Sveta’s sound. Her lifelong obsession with dance music gives her the unique ability to contextualise the music within her sets. Her flawless mixing skills assist her in taking the listener on a heartfelt journey, from a purist House or Techno set to a multi-genre party experience.
DJ SVETA World Pride Mix 2020 Recorded live on MINCETV by Sydney’s House of Mince Vinyl + Digital
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I made a guest mix for Australia's own Tigerlily, one of the most successful DJ's in the world. Many moons ago, she shared with me that I was an inspiration for her to start DJing & I'm more than chuffed by her beautiful intro to this episode of her world-wide weekly podcast on Apple Music & Spotify. Check out the show & my mix in the 2nd half of the podcast here Apple: https://bit.ly/ttrSVET Spotify: https://sptfy.com/4S0l
Spinning a fast, bassy, uplifting techno set ahead of the CONTROL party playing with Sweden's SPFDJ & Sydney's Ayebatonye.
SAT 14 March 2020 Control presents SPFDJ (3 Hour Set) TIX: bit.ly/spfdj20
Exclusive APPLE MUSIC mix to celebrate WORLD PRIDE, curated by Poof Doof. Download in the Apple store in your country. Australian link: https://music.apple.com/au/album/a-love-letter-from-sydney-to-new-york-world-pride-dj-mix/1468521510 US link: https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-love-letter-from-sydney-to-new-york-world-pride-dj-mix/1468521510
This mix is dedicated to all LGBTQI + people & especially to my fierce NYC family who has mentored me over the years & also my First Nations family here in Australia. The mix reflects that story & features many artists from our family, especially our T's. Tracks from Green Velvet, MarkKnight72 Honey Dijon, Yothu Yindi & The Treaty Project Gavin Campbell, DJ Dwayne Minard, Lady Blacktronika, RuPaul and more.
TRACKLISTING: TITLE 1. Space Kitten - Black Sausage 2. Fast Piano - Sveta & Tokoloshe 3. Dancin' (feat. Luvli) [JJ Flores & Steve Smooth Remix] - Aaron Smith 4. Do You Wanna Funk (feat. Sylvester)- Patrick Cowley 5. Lazer Beams - Green Velvet & Harvard Bass 6. Been a Long Time (Rios Pride Mix)- The Fog 7. Been a Long Time (Mark Knight Remix)- The Fog 8. Just Fierce - Argy & Honey Dijon 9. Runway (As a House) (GREASE MONKEY DRAG QUEEN Mix)- Robbie Tronco 10. Got To Dance Disco (The Navigators Mix)- Hog & The Groovelines 11. Passion (Naked Mix)- Gat Decor 12. Treaty (The Journey Remix) - Yothu Yindi & Gavin Campbell 13. Butch Queen (Division 4 & Matt Consola Remix)- Dwayne Minard 14. F****d Up - Lady Blacktronika & Your Only Friend 15. Deep Inside (Shadow Child Remix)- Hardrive 16. House of Love - RuPaul
APPLE MUSIC UNVEILS 17 EXCLUSIVE DJ MIXES AS PART OF CONTINUED CELEBRATION OF PRIDE (as featured in Billboard Magazine - USA)
Today Apple Music unveils 17 exclusive DJ mixes from LGBTQ+ DJs from across the globe as part of its continued celebration of Pride. Artists who have contributed mixes include: Andrew Bayer, Kittens, Ducky, J. Worra, UNIIQU3, Kandy, and more. See below for the complete list with links to each mix on Apple Music.
"As part of Apple Music’s month-long Pride celebration, we wanted to do something special with LGBTQ+ DJs as they’ve been an integral part of shaping dance music's culture and sound since the beginning. Over the past year or so, we’ve prioritized DJ mixes and representing dance culture as authentically as possible at Apple Music, so this was a perfect opportunity to invite some of our favorite artists to create a DJ mix to celebrate Pride. We’re proud to have worked with 17 artists of different nationalities, gender identities, and sexualities who made DJ Mixes in the spirit of Pride. All of these mixes are different flavors of dance music, and even some hip hop, that show the true diversity of our community. This work couldn’t have been done without our label partners Dubset and Anjunabeats, as well as queer parties Rhonda INTL and POOF DOOF who helped in curating some of these mixes.” - Robby Engle, Apple Music Dance Programmer / Editor
Exclusive Pride DJ Mixes Glovibes - Bonanza Selection Part 1 J. Worra - Pride 2019 Mixtape B!tch Be Cool - Fever Baby Blue - Baby Blue’s Astral Lovers Mix Kitty Glitter - Glitter Pride Sveta - A Love Letter From Sydney To New York - World Pride Argonaut - Argonaut’s World Pride Paradiso Kittens - No Shame Sasha Marie - soft high. Ducky - I Can’t Think Straight Newbody - Pride: A Deeper Love, Mixed for Rhonda INTL Dopplegang - Pride: A Deeper Love, Mixed for Rhonda INTL Patrick Mason - Pride: A Deeper Love, Mixed for Rhonda INTL Lauren Flax - Pride: A Deeper Love, Mixed for Rhonda INTL KANDY - LOUD AND PROUD Andrew Bayer - Pride 2019 Mix UNIIQU3 - Club Culture
DJ Sveta celebrated her 20th year as a Club DJ at Sydney's infamous Pavlova Bar. Here's a little taste of her 7 hour marathon set.