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My name's Yasmine, a.k.a. dj blackrainbow, and I've been playing Asian underground, global beats and grooves, drum n bass, two-step etc for the last 6 years!After running a number of club, benefit and pub nights in Norwich and my own community radio show, Universal Rhythms World Tour, on Future Radio in 2005 I headed to the mild mild west and am now working in the Bristol area.As well as club, festival and radio performances in the UK, I have also travelled to the U.S. to take my own asian beats and bass style overseas including performances for the fabulously queer Charm City Kitty Club in Baltimore.I am queer and of mixed parentage (so I get bonus "scene" points - and so do you if you become my friend!!!) fusing Pakistani, Irish and English and it is my belief that music is a universal language that can build bridges between people and communities. I also believe that the mainstream music industry doesn't often allow room for free musical expression, and hence inhibits dialogue and communication between peoples. This serves to further divide us, alienate us and create endless "others".The music I play, promote, dance to, cry to, laugh to isn't always "popular" or "cool", but I often think it is music that people don't know they already love. For this reason I became a DJ and promoter, not for the "I am" but the "we are" - watching a dancefloor mixed of all ages, cultures, backgrounds dancing, smiling, and sweating together is soul lifting. It gives us hope.I am also a writer, spoken word artist/poet and have performed in both the U.S. and the U.K. I am keen to connect and communicate with U.K. based performers and writers, particularly in the Bristol area.