{"id":26222,"count":4,"description":"","link":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/es\/artist\/cassy\/","name":"Cassy","slug":"cassy","taxonomy":"musicartist","meta":{"artist_discogs_id":47174,"artist_discogs_url":"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/47174-Cassy","artist_image_id":636563,"artist_real_name":"Catherine Britton","artist_profile":"Watching Cassy eagerly dive into her record collection is a joy. Away from the transcendent spaces\r\nshe continues to play at most weekends, her vinyl-digging series Talking About My Records on\r\nInstagram gives ample opportunity to engage with her endearing excitability. Its concept being spurred\r\nby moving back home to Austria and reconnecting with a stacked vinyl stash, you can feel the buzz\r\ngained from rediscovering lost gems and rinsed B-sides. Keen to share this experience with whoever\u2019s\r\nwatching, what makes this series stand out is the sense that Cassy\u2019s enthusiasm and faithfulness to\r\nthe music that fuels club culture has been revived. We\u2019re seeing the beginning of a new era for Cassy.\r\nGiven that her trailblazing career surpasses two decades, a serious reset to recalibrate should be expected.\r\nShe\u2019s lived in Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, London, New York and LA; worked at iconic record store Hard Wax;\r\nheld residencies at hallowed clubs Panorama Bar, Trouw, Output, DC-10 for Circo Loco, Rex Club, Amnesia\r\nfor Cocoon, and Pacha with her own night in the Pachacha room; taken in massive festivals and heaving\r\nbasements the world over; contributed to the seminal mix series from Panorama Bar, fabric and Cocoon;\r\ndropped records on Perlon, Aus, K7!, Ostgut T on, Cocoon Recordings and Bass Culture; and launched her\r\nrecord label Kwench Records featuring EPs from Fred P , Demuir, Ian Pooley, Kristen Velvet, Chris Carrier, Art\r\nAlfie, Amir Alexander and Steve Bug.\r\nIn 2020, Cassy tapped out, moving to Austria with her mother and son. Getting distance from the challenges of\r\nthe scene and learning to rest was needed. It\u2019d be a drum & bass set with Ray Keith via a live stream by\r\nLondon club FOLD that did some of the work to lure her back. Cassy\u2019s return would be further cemented by\r\nrecord digging sessions with her unearthed collection, pulling out tracks from Ron Hardy, Regis, Mike Dunn,\r\nTin Man, \u00c9tienne de Cr\u00e9cy and T errence Dixon, among many more.\r\nMaking her debut in South Korea, fulfilling an urge to spend more time in Buenos Aires, throwing herself back\r\ninto Berlin\u2019s bubble, playing at Heidegl\u00fchen,ELSE, Renate and Panorama bar, Cassy is future-focussed with\r\nan outlook that she\u2019s here to enjoy DJing anew.\r\n\u201cThere\u2019s fresh audiences out there to connect with, and that\r\nexcites me,\r\n\u201d Cassy explains.\r\n\u201cI feel like I better understand my job description. I better appreciate what the\r\nmoment needs and I\u2019m less concerned with what records I have to play to keep my reputation intact. We can\r\nbe too critical of ourselves. As Larry Levan advised, drop the ego. Let\u2019s keep it real.\r\n\u201d\r\nFlip through the two EPs that she released in 2023 on her label Kwench Records, and you\u2019ll get a good feeling\r\nof where she\u2019s at with her confidence as a producer and label head. On E.T . Ascension, Cassy utilises\r\nRoland\u2019s 808 and her computer in a bid to honour her roots. Eager to strip it back to the basics, sending waves\r\ninto the past when she was living in Berlin using that exact minimalist setup, she\u2019d feel connected with herself\r\nagain.\r\n\u201cIt\u2019d been a long time since I\u2019d used an 808. It was nice to revisit these feelings using the machine, lean\r\ninto my weirdness in producing music and also use my vocals. I\u2019m super proud of this record. It gives me that\r\nkick to get more and more creative with every release.\r\n\u201d\r\nUltimately, Cassy has liberated herself from the pressures of blasting through a checklist according to whatever\r\nthe dominant standard may be. Representing herself in a true and sincere way is all that she demands.","artist_country":"","artist_active_years":"","artist_website":"","artist_instagram":"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cassyofficial","artist_facebook":"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cassyofficial","artist_bandcamp":"http:\/\/cassy-music.bandcamp.com","artist_soundcloud":"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cassy-official","artist_spotify":"","artist_resident_advisor":"","artist_beatport":"","artist_youtube":"","artist_youtube_session":"","artist_chart_products":"","artist_chart_title":"","artist_chart_date":"","artist_instagram_curated":"","artist_email_curated":"","artist_bio_curated":"","artist_real_name_curated":"","artist_website_curated":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musicartist\/26222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/musicartist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/musicartist"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/yoyaku.io\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?musicartist=26222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}