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In Session: Jane Fitz

Quality always speaks for itself

  • Seb Wheeler
  • 1 April 2016
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Fitz's story starts as a budding music journalist who got the chance to move to Hong Kong aged 23. There, she found a strong dance music scene inhabited by a potent mix of tourists and locals. Speaking to Hyponik, she said: “I’d kind of missed the early rave scene [in Britain] but by the time I got to Hong Kong it was the right sort of time and you almost had a second-coming of acid house, semi-exported through ex-pats that eventually caught on and became nurtured by a local scene.

"By ’97 the scene was established locally as well; Lee Burridge and a guy called Christian were DJing at bars in Wan Chai, at Big Apple and later, Neptune’s. That was the first time the city had an after-hours scene and where everyone came together, from bankers to the Triad and anyone who wanted to stay out and party.”

After delicious experiences in Hong Kong, she spent the 00s running Peg and getting stuck in to the UK's underground house circuit. The turn of this decade was a tipping point: Fitz started rubbing shoulders with fellow risers Sven Weisemann and Brawther as well as Boo Williams and Mike Huckaby. The last few years have been her busiest yet, reeling in gigs across Europe and in Japan and Australia. Later this year she'll head to the US.

The In Session mix she's turned in for us showcases her deep, dreamy side – the perfect warm-up for Night Moves next weekend. Of the party, she told Inverted Audio: "If you look at our approach to hosting a party it goes against everything in the promoter handbook – we don’t advertise; other than in our regulars group we keep a fairly low social-media profile. We book our friends to DJ, whether anyone’s heard of them or not. We never talk about what music is going to be played. Three years down the line and we’ve done one interview together. We never give out the venue address. We have moved our venue to an unfashionable part of London. And we seldom plan ahead, because our lives govern when we can put a party on. A party really begins with its crowd, and evolves on the dance floor." The quote is a neat insight to her DIY, for-the-love mentality and focus on what matters most: good music and a strong community.

Like we said, Jane Fitz is the toast of those in the know. And know you know.

Night Moves takes place in London on Saturday April 9

Seb Wheeler is Mixmag's Digital Editor. Follow him on Twitter

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