Cry Baby is the New York techno DJ intent on breaking barriers

“That really opened a lot of doors for me,” she explains. “It wasn’t a huge party but we had Radio Slave and Arthur Baker and it was a real step up.”

Telling us her DJ sets are likely to go in one of three directions – the kind of techno you find on Romanian labels like [a:rpia:r], really hard techno like Surgeon, or on a Chicago tip like Ron Trent – Cry Baby first caught our attention when she warmed up the Lab NYC, impressing so much that it became a regular slot.

So with an all-female DJ collective to helm, and fighting the good fight against what she sees as Miami’s sexist booking policies, what else is on her already jam-packed to-do list?

“I want to get to the point where I can play live,” she tells us. “I really want to do an album, and then get to a point where I can do a proper live show.”

On past form, we don’t doubt she’ll get it done.

Cry Baby is in the Smirnoff Sound Collective. Find out more here

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