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Nina has always been a music junkie, whose obsession started in her teenage years. She was into heavy metal bands like Pantera and Slayer, but after high school her musical tastes began to broaden and she started to listen to more industrial sounds like Ministry and Nine Inch Nails. This led her into even more electronic sounds like the Beastie Boys and Portishead. Her ears were open to a new genre after going to her first party in 1994. After that she crossed over into techno and house music. Her most memorable parties were Earth 1995, Icehouse, and Quad Cities Reprazent.


In l998, she started helping a local Dallas crew, 32 Degrees. She worked with the burgeoning crew at Decibel and helped with the events they coordinated. In the process, Kim and Nina tossed around the idea of starting a production company which eventually came under the name "Real-time Syndicate". Real-time has to do with many aspects of music production. A syndicate is a group of people with a common goal. Real-time Syndicate was born and in November of 1999, with the support of many other scenesters, they pulled off an event called "A Room of Our Own". The event featured 2 rooms of all female djs with all different genres represented including techno, drum and bass, house, trance, hardcore, and breaks. The event was a success and after that, Toyacoyah and Aya joined the group as well. Their vision was to provide a platform for digital artists to express themselves and since then that is exactly what they have done.


In 2001 Nina helped organize events at Carribean Red in order to expose many genres of music including drum an
d bass, house, and goa. After the closing of Carribean Red, Nina took over bookings at Sub-tronic Theatre, a night devoted to exposing live electronic acts in Texas and the surrounding areas. Currently Nina is booking DJs and live PAs for the monthly event. For over a year, she has been writing the Dallas scene report in Feedback Magazine, a quarterly zine dedicated to Texas electronic music.

:: Sub-tronic Theatre - http://www.sub-tronic.com
Liquid Lounge - http://www.curtainclub.com
Bad Grrl Beatz - http://www.badgrrlbeatz.com