Tamie Blanco has been gracing us with her presence for almost a decade now and she can only be titled as the ultimate sweetheart of Hard Dance. With her contagious smile, her deep devotion to her fans, a fearsome persona and an undeniable ability to launch herself into anything and everything music related with a wholehearted attitude, it’s hard not to fall in love with her. To watch her perform brings all the best elements of the hard-dance scene together in one delicious package: dedication, skill, talent, flare, finesse and passion.

Some of her achievements include a huge collective of mixed albums, gigs and tours across the world and a mass volume of original tracks which have been released on some of the finest and most respected Hard Dance labels. Tamie has clocked up some major collaborations with many superior names in the scene including Technikal, Andy Whitby, Sam Townend, Gammer, Klubfiller and Energy Syndicate. She never fails to smash out tracks with classic and thrilling vocals, mind-blowing basslines with her trademark fast and energetic tempo. She has proved above and beyond, time and again, that she is a force to be reckoned with!

Tamie has come a long way from winning a dj competition at the Tidy Weekender back in 2004. Even after all this time, she’s still as ambitious and involved in the scene as ever and the best is yet to come. With a recently launched label co-owned by herself and Andy Whitby entitled ‘Hard’ and a sensational new podcast introducing some fresh new female talent – ‘Girls Like it Hard’, there’s plenty of projects for her to sink her teeth into. Along with a line of merchandise, albums and events in preparation for these exciting new beginnings, she’ll also be focusing on signing new artists and of course spending some much needed time in the studio.

Tamie is no longer the new girl on the block. She is, without doubt, a definitive icon in the Hard Dance scene of today.

My love for music started long ago peeping into parties by others older than me. Started with love for soul then moved up to the UK house scene in the late 80’s. Clubs like the Lime Light, Browns, Café D Paris and the Pig was where it was all happening. I think this is where House music took over the London club scene. I remember Judge Jules on the decks in a corner of the dance floor at the Pig in Gray’s Inn Road. He was young and I was younger. Dancing away but carefully watching his moves. This is where it all started for me to be a DJ from playing cassettes. Saw Carl Cox playing in a Church in Westbourne Park and he was mixing on three decks. OMG!

I started collecting Vinyl early 90’s and saved up some cash to buy some belt driven decks and a mixer. It was more of balancing the records on the decks act in those days. I got picked up by a promoter called Kilroy who ran Global Explosion. My first ever play out was at Club 414 with MC Navigator and I also got radio exposure.

Mid 90’s I moved to NYC. It is there that I got hooked on to the sounds of underground House music. My weekend clubbing was to the diverse sounds of ‘Little’ Louie Vega, Junior Vasquez, Roger Sanchez, David Morales, Frankie Knuckles and NY’s Hot 97. The New York House camp was heavy. The clubs were humongous playing Tribal, Latin, Deep, Techno, Electro and the slower Chicago.

After returning to London I gradually got into UK Garage scene and was playing on Stevie Koo's BOSS FM. Then got involved with SUPREME FM with fellow DJ’s and MC’s in 1997, which was one of the hottest UK Garage stations of that era giving platform to the likes of Dj Oxide, MC Neutrino, The So Solid Crew and many more.

Done some production but nothing to mention. The love for House music was all always there and funny enough the scene has evolved back to it again. Back on radio and the club scene.

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