What is, is. Isis when she spins, is Tanya Pea - who enchants the senses by blurring the contrast between what is and what is not. Tanya is at home anywhere in the world and wherever she treads, soundscapes and swirling visuals follow. Moody, dark, minimal, and special, her sets have been described by Taxi Magazine in a review of her opening performance for Autechre as "absolutely stunning, a collection of melodic beats and caustic sonics".

PHOTO BY JESSICA RAIN : DJ ISIS 1997

CURRENT PROJECTS
www.tanyapea.com
www.primes-music.com
www.thewaxmuseum.bc.ca

HISTORY OF EVENTS
2005 : Playing and writing with Primes, designing and co-operating as The Wax Museum, releasing records as Tanya Pea, sometimes known as RFC 1515, performing at festivals Signal and Noise / New Forms Festival. Found some common ground between indie and rave music with Jack Duckworth of Radio Berlin, A Luna Red.
2002 - 2005 : Worked as an assistant recording engineer at Greenhouse Studios, and as sound syncher at Technicolor. Tracks as Isis appear on the 111 Locked Grooves record alongside Mat Jonson, Hrd Vsion, Twerk.
2001 - 2002 : Studied Recording Arts / Audio Engineering at CDIS in Vancouver.
1999 to 2000 : Performed in Edmonton as a visual artist (Black + Blue Visuals) at The Rev and Lush Nightclubs, for an audience of 7000 at The Fifth Annual Nexus Gathering, at shows featuring Donald Glaude, The Herbaliser, Banco De Gaia, Grand Master Flash.
1999 : The rave scene had taken lots of turns for the worst in Vancouver. Friends were dead from overdoses. Lots of promoters had sunk to the lowest common denominator and nothing meant anything. Raving was no longer about making art and music for art and music's sake. The use of the word Rave was officially shameful.
1994 to 1999 : Rave was in full effect in North America. I was DJing every small party, and loads of big ones too. I travelled across Canada, throughout the US, to Japan. I started incorporating visuals into my sets using 35mm slide projectors in ambient rooms that were hosts to hundreds. The visuals grew to using 16mm film projectors and myself and Vincent Dema started a visuals company called Black and Blue visuals. We had a residency at Luv-A-Fair for Czech's Big Beat night. I hosted DJ residencies - Aqua, Blue Room, and the radio show Ocean of Sound, all in Vancouver. Notable shows as DJ Isis include: Autechre at The Palladium, The Crystal Method at The Vogue Theatre, Robert Anton Wilson at The Orpheum, Fun in Okayama, Japan, The Ambient Ping in Toronto with Richard Underhill (Shuffle Demons), co-host of sound:escape on 1groove.com with Kresh and Robbie, Spacetime Continuum at Graceland, Orbital at The Drive-In.
1994 : DJ Czech gave me my first pair of turntables. They were belt driven Geminis. The belts were stretched. Markem X (then room mate of Doc Martin in LA) moved to Vancouver. We met outside of the Starfish room and started a conversation that lasted over a number of chance encounters about music. I mentioned I was DJing and he asked me for a mix tape. Markem and I started an ambient night at Raxx Cafe (later known as The Darkroom) called Aqua. My sister Lisa Marie managed Raxx, she was our in. Every Sunday night Markem and I played ambient, dub, ambient house, drones. These genres were a pre-cursor to IDM. Some of our guests included DJ Lace, Joe Rice (San Fran), Micheal Manahan (Seattle). Regulars at the night included Little T, Jordan (VIBE productions), Loopy, Pretty Boy, Tokuichi Himeno, Mad Love. Sunday nights at Raxx became quite popular... the busiest night of the week for Raxx. At the same time that Aqua started, Markem started a residency at Graceland (1250 Richards St. Vancouver) on Thursdays called Sol. I opened every Thursday with a fine selection of trax that went moved from ambient to some form of minimal house/techno/breaks. Heavy on rotation were artists like Pete Namlook, Autechre, The Orb, Babyfox, Model 500, Sun Electric, Seefeel. Labels I was into were Warp, N-Tone, Reflective, Fat Cat, Planet Dog, Rising High, Rephlex. 1000 people were showing up every Thursday. We met Ricardo Almeida.
1993 : Started shopping for records at Odyssey Imports on Seymour St. in Vancouver. Also made a habit of buying obscure electronic records from thrift stores.

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CONTACT
djisis@hotmail.com