SISTER SF resident and co-founder XJS has been in the music scene since being classically trained in flute as a kid in Wales, and on through her student days as a punk in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

She's been involved in the San Francisco music scene since she moved here in 1995, starting with the successful Hedquarters, the first drum and bass and downtempo club in the Bay Area, organized with Tomas and Markus Miller. Becoming sick of carrying other DJs' record bags, she began spinning in 1997, after pussying around with the idea for way too long. She plays drum and bass, the emphasis being heavy on the bass, and has recently taken to making dancefloors bounce with nu-skool breaks and big beat, with excursions into hip hop and downtempo when the mood strikes: She was recently nominated for Drum and Bass as well as Breaks DJ of the year in San Francisco's Clubby Awards 2001.

Shortly after Hedquarters she came up with the idea of a club for women DJs only... and she discovered she wasn't the only one who was thinking about it. Siren, Linzee, Polywog and the Baroness all quickly became involved in the concept, and SISTER was born. More recent alliances, over the past two years, include becoming part of the Epiphany and Plate Tectonics collectives.

Having also played in Munich (Germany), Florence (Italy), Prague (Czech Republic), Barcelona (Spain), and the UK since 1997, XJS is happy to say that the San Francisco scene is the one she loves. And despite all the travelling, XJS found time to form an alliance with the people over at LiveDJs.com where she spent 6 months as founder and host to several of her own shows: Monday and Friday nights' drum and bass show, Seismology (4pm to 10pm), the SISTER SF Anti-Radio show on Tuesdays (10am to 10pm,) and Electromagnetic, the weekly breaks and electro show, noon to 6pm on Saturdays.

She lives with three cats and has two horses who all do a great job at interfering with her web design work. You can see her work at Xanthoria.com

Contact XJS for bookings at

Listen to her archived sets from LiveDJs.com on: July 25th 2000

Read interviews and profiles on XJS by various publications:
Junglist
Jungle Voodoo
Klubz
Womanrock
DivaDJs