Lauryn was born and raised in the small town of Duxbury, Massachusetts 40 minutes south of the wonderful city of Boston. Her love of music began at the age of 9 when she began playing the violin and taking ballet, jazz, and tap dancing lessons. She continued dancing for the next 5 years and continued playing the violin for the next 9 years. In her junior year of high school she auditioned for and was accepted into the Southeastern Massachusetts Senior District Orchestra. In August of 1998 she began attending Hamilton College in Upstate NY. She is currently persuing a degree in Communication Studies and will graduate in May of 2002. While at Hamilton she discovered a love for college radio, having 15 different radio shows (Indie Rock, Ska, Punk, Emo, and numerous electronic music shows) in her 4 years at the college. In addition to this, she has spent a year as the assistant music director, a year and a half as program director, and 2 years as RPM Director of the station. She is also co-founder of the Hamilton College Electronic Dance Music Society. Lauryn was first introduced to progressive trance by hardcore indie rocker Greg Geist when he made the mistake of playing her Paul Oakenfold’s Tranceport album at the radio station. She was instantly addicted and saw live djs spin for the first time in September of 1999 – Sasha, Jimmy Van M, Dave Ralph and Paul Oakenfold in two consecutive nights (and no I probably didnt sleep at all during this time). It was also at this time that she became interested in the rave scene and attended her first party Freaky2, in October of 1999. At the radio station she started up a show called WHCL Spin Cycle with co-host Chris P. where she began experimenting with the pitch shift on the cd players at the station. It was also around this time that Chris introduced me to Goa trance. This eventually evolved into teaching herself to mix with cds and then vinyl. She has been addicted to djing for the past two years, although she has attempted numerous times to quit, it has proven an addiction worse than nicotine. She is a former progressive/deep trance dj who now strictly spins Psytrance and maintains a growing curiousity in downtempo. From September 2000-May 2001 she was resident dj of Orbit_Radio on WHCL. She now co-hosts a techno/psytrance show on WHCL Tuesday nights from 10-12pm. You can listen to her at www.whcl.org. In April of 2001 Lauryn (then Trancegirl) had her first production "Sastun" in Clinton NY, you can look at the pics elsewhere on this site. Her main influences include Ammon EP, Dino, Reefer Decree, Infected Mushroom and Olli Wisdom. Her favorite labels are Iboga, Moon Spirits, Plastic Park, and Digital Structures. Favorite Producers include Reefer Decree, Auricular, Bitmonx, Beat Bizarre, Double Dragon, Shakta, Bamboo Forest, and Ticon. She is planning on living in Boston and working at Newbury Comics after graduation. In the future she has no idea what she wants to do. When she has to be at school, she enjoys studying Media Theory and Cultural Anthropology. Ultimately, she plans to pursue a career which relates in some way to electronic music.

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