Tamsin began spinning at the tender age of 13...buying jazz funk tunes to play at school discos and her mates house parties.Early clubbing @ Billy's, Gaz's rockin blues, WAG, Le Beat Route, Cheeky Petes, Crackers, Embassy, Camden Palace and The Africa Center. She teamed up with her sister Kerensa in the mid eighties to form the TK Experience, and hassled the Boiler House boys till she got a warm up slot at their legendary nights across the UK playing along side Trevor Fung, Colin Favor and Carl Cox. Tamsin was an original member of the Fresh and Funky crew with Brian Norman and Femi, playing a hybrid mix of Hip-Hop, funk and house which led her into the immerging rave scence of the late eighties. She got her first residency at the Astoria thanks to Nikki Holloway and Pete Tong, who were running TRIP/SIN. From there her mixing skills came into demand with another residency for The Orange Club at Camden Palace, and Babylon at Heaven via various other seminal London nights including RIP at Clink St, Pirate Club, Telepathy, World Dance, Jungle Fever, Vivid etc. In 1991 Tamsin really made her mark in the origins of DnB as resident at Sunday Roast , the original and best jungle night in history, playing along side legends like Grooverider, Colin Dale, DJ Ron, Mickey Finn, Hype, Kenny Ken etc
During the day Tamsin worked as a studio engineer at Power Plant Studios in west London, honing her production skills ready for her first release on Lafayette Records, more followed on White House Records and then a great partnership with Guy Called Geralds label, JuiceBox. Tamsin remixed Reverence for the seminal Insomnia album by Faithless and has since been signed to Rennie Pilgrims TCR label as part of BREAKNECK. She mixed CD1 of the TCR50th release mix compilation.
Together with Pete Parsons, they have now started their own breaks imprint LondonBreakz Records and have a weekly slot on award winning internet radio station BreaksFM. Tamsin has been DJing as part of BREAKNECK and now on her own steam the world over. Recent events include Glade Festival (UK), WMC Breaks Day (USA), CineTrip (Hungary), Blue Cheese (Italy) HUM (UK) Satisfaxtion (Spain) Urbanizacja (Poland), Frisk (UK), Independent Sound Club ( Sapin) REWIND (Hungary) Secret garden festival (UK)
Catch her live every Saturday 16:00 - 18:00 GMT on BREAKS FM
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I've been makin and playin with music for the last 20yrs..perhaps thats why I escape into usually dark reading matter and admire creative people who have had to struggle to get their voice heard...I dont see the music business as a joyous place to be...Its a constant test of my ability to accept criticisms and lay bare my inner most emotions, hence my lack of prolificacy.. Im getting there...
"Works of art are indeed always products of having been in danger, of having gone to the very end in an experience, to where man can go no further." Rilke (1875-1926)
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August 18th 2006 at Secret Garden Party Huntingdon East Anglia
With The Armada and Porno Breaks massive !
September 1st 2006 at FABRIC Eargasm LondonBreakz with Plump DJs, DJ Tamsin 77a Charterhouse Street London EC1
September 3rd 2006 at St Georges Jam FREE hippy Festival St Georges Park, Bristol
September 16th 2006 at REWIND A38 A History of Breaks with B.L.I.M, Palotai and Cadik BUDAPEST HUNGARYSeptember 23rd 2006 at Twisted @ On The Rocks With B.L.I.M,10 RAPID & DJ TAMSIN 25 Kingsland Road Shoreditch E2
October 10th 2006 at
Timbuk2 Bristol
October 21st 2006 at Twisted @ On The Rocks With Angel Farringdon,Kid Blue & DJ TAMSIN 25 Kingsland Road Shoreditch E2
November 1st 2006 at Left of Centre @ Neighbourhood With Jay Cunning & DJ TAMSIN 12 Acklam Road Ladbroke Grove W10
November 2nd - 6th 2006 at New York New York With the lovely BLIM at Leopard Lounge Manhatten I will be box girl and groupie with Anya Tika The BreaksFM massive avin' it LARGE !! Breakbeat Slumber party in Full effect..yeah baby
November 10th 2006 at Genorator @ Lakota Bristol With those Smashin Armada Folk,Ed 209, DJ TAMSIN 22k of bass perversion...details to follow...
November 24th 2006 at TUNNEL CLUB Tbilisi, Georgia, DJ TAMSIN ...details to follow...
December 9th 2006 at Twisted @ On The Rocks With DJ TAMSIN, BLIM, AWE Sound System,Angel Farringdon & Gowan The Jam Shoreditch High St E2 FREE XMAS BASH !!!
February 14th 2007 at REWIND A38 with B.L.I.M, Palotai and Cadik BUDAPEST HUNGARY
March 3rd 2007 at Chanel 13 @ The Bourbon/Bunker Kings X Sydney Australia
March 9th 2007 at Breaks & Enter @ GPO Brisbane Australia
March 16th 2007 at Bughauz @ Brown Alley with Tayo Melbourne Australia
March 31st 2007 at Genorator @ Lakota With those Smashin' Armada Folk, BLIM, Paul Bassrock and some... 22k of bass perversion @ Lakota Stokes Croft Bristol
April 7th 2007 at Tracktion @ Clockhouse with Chris Carter, JHz & BLIM Clockhouse Bar 96-98 Pentonville Road London N1
April 11th 2007 FSK in Hamburg (Germany) 93.0 MHz Antenne & 101.4 Mhz Kabel http://www.fsk-hh.org
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April 21st 2007 at Twisted @ On The Rocks 25 Kingsland Road Shoreditch E2
June 2nd 2007 at Tracktion @ Clockwork with Diverted, JHz & BLIM Clockwork Bar 96-98 Pentonville Road London N1
June 22nd 2007 at Chix in da Mix:Its Me Birfday Innit ! Tabernacle, Tabernacle St, Shoreditch EC2A YAA
June 29th 2007 at Genor8 Brizzol TBC
July 7th 2007 1pm-2am at 5th Annual TCR BBQ with (amongst others)Me,Rennie P,Ellis Dee, Diverted, JDS, Blim, Jay Cunning,Tom Real,General Midi. ! Lockside Lounge, West Yard, Camden Lock London NW1..& OMG its FREE !!
August 11th 2007 at Twisted Most Definitely with (amongst others)Me, JDS, Blim ! On The Rocks,25 Kingsland Road, Shoreditch, London E2..& OMG its another FREE 1 !!
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September 22nd 2007 at Chix in da Mix vs Social Breaks @ Lockside Lounge, West Yard, Camden Lock London NW1
October 12th at TMD??? @ The Key, With Tamsin, B.L.I.M, Awe, Gowan & Collins 303 Laser Road, off York Way,Kings Cross N.1
November 10th 2007 at Genorator @ Lakota With those Smashin' Armada Folk, Tamsin, Paul Bassrock and some... 22k of bass perversion @ Lakota Stokes Croft Bristol
December 1st 2007 at Burning Man Euro Burner with Supertronix & SpoonFace Secret London Location WOOT... SOLD OUT!
December 2nd 2007 at 8 Bit Sqiffy. Serious..after party in East London !
January 11th 2008 at The Gallery with Hybrid, Nick warren & Chix in da Mix: Tamsin, Mini da Minx, Anna B Turnmills Clerkenwell Road London EC1!
The slide below is of my new ebay purchase..the lovely narrowboat Angel Wings...Roll on next summer...
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