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DJ Lora
12+ albums
Houseelectronicbritishdeep housetech house
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"I LIKE BASSLINES," SAYS LAURA WITH A HUGE SMILE ON HER FACE. "And that's the most important thing in my music. I make tech house and deep house, with the sound of a rounded garage bassline." Of course, Laura's music is harder to describe than that, the product of a life well-lived all over the world, with all the influences and inspirations that come with it. The daughter of a jazz musician and a James Brown and opera fanatic, born in Durban, South Africa where rock and metal ruled the airwaves, Laura's own deep house tracks were always going to be an eclectic melting pot of layered, Latin-tinged arrangements and soulful vocals, capped off with a rock sensibility. "Whatever I do, I want it to be beautiful," she says. It all started some 20 years ago when Lora, then working in a bar, decided it was time to stop dreaming about becoming a DJ and actually become one. Caught in the age-old conundrum of not being able to get gigs without experience, she just bought some decks and started telling people she was a DJ. Her bluff was called when her first booking came in – a private yacht party in St Tropez. "I already had the equipment but didn't know how to use it, so I went to a shop and pretended I was going to buy some decks if they showed me how to use them," she says now with slight horror. "I went home and practiced and practiced, and then I'd go home during lunch breaks from work, whenever I got a spare second, and practice some more until I could do it and was ready f
