Not Jen

Not Jen spent her evolutionary years dancing in deep field research, dusting festival dancefloors middle front to middle back, with occasional veering to front left or front right.

But as the years passed she found herself spending more and more time up the back in the analysis division, and realised she had started to develop an uncomfortable case of chin stroke.

Some retrospective examples of her condition at the time: I like how deep this is but I wish it was more playful; I like how playful this is but wish it had more sleaze; I like how sleazy this is but I wish it was weirder; I like how weird this is but I wish it had more bass; I like how bassy this is but I wish it had more groove; I like how groovy this is but I wish it had more queer sass and smut etc.

Eventually she found treatment for this obnoxious condition by putting it to good use.

She bought some equipment and started relentlessly digging for her ideal dancefloor tracks off the field, then layering them together in search of the textured vibe she was after.

She quickly realised she was on to something and has been hooked ever since. She played her first DJ set as Dinob1tch at Deliverance Festival 2014.

She was so obscenely nervous that she barely looked up from the decks the whole time, but she had a blast and apparently the dancefloor went off too.

So things took off from there, and soon she started looking up from the decks to see lots of good stuff happening. She continued playing all around Australia as Dinob1tch throughout the B.C. times, then excavated herself from Melbourne’s collective house arrest in 2021 as Not Jen.

The core of Not Jen's sound sits along the house > techno spectrum, with regular borrows from breakbeat, electro and other wonky realms.

She loves digging deep into the history for its wealth of amazing lost tracks. It’s not unusual for her to mix a jackin house track from the 90s with something that was released last week.

And it works. [bru says: "hells yeah it does" :D]

She puts a lot of love and diligence into every set she plays, and is just as passionate about playing weird grooves at an intimate backroom/side stage/theme camp, as she is belting out peak times on a big stage.

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