DJ Orawan got her first taste of DJ-ing at the infamous Full Moon Party at Koh Phangan pushing on 13 years to this day. Immediately she was hooked on the driving rhythm and rumbling bass which still has her coming back for more. After moving to New Zealand in 2002 and being exposed to a fast evolving Drum and Bass scene Orawan quickly set herself up buying her first records in 2004 and hasn't looked back since.
Not content with just playing for other promoters Orawan decided to channel her love for Bass Driven music into promoting as well as DJing.
2007 saw the rise of her bi-monthly night "KINETIC" pushing the finest of local talent on the Auckland scene at FU BAR, one of the biggest clubs NZ has to offer.
She also played support on NZs Hip Hop legend KiNG KAPISI on his Hip Hop Lives Here tour through out New Zealand. She played headline shows through out South East Asia including the massive Honda music festival 2010 and 2011 with over 300,000 people in attendance, Culture One, The Full Moon Party, Bangkoks own Dubway and Yaak Party as well as play along side Thai Hip Hop pioneer - Thaitanium at Bacardi Hitz Unheard.
On top of all this, she also securing herself a residency in one of Bangkok's hottest & legendary nightclubs, Bed Supperclub and hosts one of Bangkok’s biggest monthly Drum & Bass nights "Phatfunk" and launched her Bass Music night "Bass Clef" in 2013.

She also played support artists including:
Skream & Benga (UK), Fatboy Slim (UK), Pendulum (UK), Dirtyphonics (UK), Deadmau5 (UK), Goldie (UK), Netsky (UK), MJ Cole (UK), DJ Fresh (UK), Marky (UK), SEIJI (UK), Sabre (UK), DJ Hype (UK), Caspa (UK), B. Traits (USA), LTJ Bukem (UK), Makoto (JP), Futurebound (UK), King Kapisi (NZ),

New mixes here: https://hearthis.at/n99-i2/

Music is my life
It helps me through the vibe

Switzerland, Winterthur/Zürich based DJ, retired since 2007
Former D&B Selecta 1993-2007
Former Hardcore & Happycore/Breakbeat Selecta 1993-1998

STRICTLY VINYL… 🤔 OK, Prague excepted …and Hot Box too…. And GFE as well 😉

ABOUT ME
I made my way through the rave scene...
Growing up in Zürich's countryside, caught between Hip Hop and Techno, doing Graffiti on trains and playing Trance, in the early 90ies.
At 15 I started to DJ in our youth centre on two Technics MKII. I always watched „MTV Party Zone“, where the likes of SL2, Altern8 and The Prodigy were featured. When I heard DJ Hype doing the closure set at Energy 94 at Hallenstadion it just was the perfect mixture of all my musical tastes, the answer to all questions.
Records were hard to find then, so mainly Happy Breakbeat and Hardcore filled the box. As an up & coming DJ of the second rave generation I got to be a resident at the White Wolf Raves from 96 to 98 and lots of other events.
Around 98 I met Led Tampi, one of the titans of Switzerland's Jungle DJs and then became a part of Zürich’s legendary „Metropolitan Bass Scientists“ alongside Mad B, Crazee Bo, Max S and MC Riddimflrt.
MBS were the counterpart to Switzerland’s biggest and most influential crew, United Tribes from Berne. Sadly, both crews dissolved around the millennium but a new collective came out of it, The Engine with Lockee, Fine Style, Led Tampi, MC Fight and myself. Their events at Bierhübeli in Berne in the early 2000s are legendary. Drum & Bass really had its prime back then. There were many other crews like Score Inc, Blackout & RG Promotions, Mute, Tension State, FMI, JUR… and so many others!
After playing at basically all Swiss venues and raves of the era and in Czech Republic regularly, even at „Let it Roll 10“ I stepped back to focus on my job career. At this time technology for DJs changed from analog to digital, but I decided not to go on with CDJ’s and refused to make this step. I've never stopped listening to D&B, once it’s in your DNA, you can’t stop listening to it, as you probably know..

By the beginning of 2024 i‘ve received a booking for a reunion bash in Prague from my good old CZ-Mate Michal. A massive happening to me, i just had to be a part of this! Anyway, there were no Turntables at the club so i had to get with XDJ’s… So i finally gone digital since early 24 ▶️⏹️↔️↕️🔄 

Links:
Instagram/Impact3000
Mixcloud/impact3000

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