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Maya Jane Coles

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Artist Overview

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Bio

Maya Jane Coles is a music producer, audio engineer and DJ based in the United Kingdom, born in London of British and Japanese descent.Under her real name, she mostly composes and plays techno music, while her alias Nocturnal Sunshine creates darker, more bass-driven productions with a heavy hip-hop and dub influence.She was previously part of a electronic dub duo called She Is Danger with Lena Cullen.

Life & Career

Having already remixed acts such as Massive Attack and Gorillaz with her duo She Is Danger, Maya gained her breakthrough exposure in 2010, when she released a four-track EP on Franck Roger's label, Real Tone Records. In 2012, Maya won 'Best House/Garage/Deep House' track at the Miami Winter Music Conference 2012. Maya also produced Fabric 75 (released April 2014), the 75th edition of London nightclub Fabric's monthly compilation album. In 2017, Coles released her sophomore album Take Flight on her own label, I/AM/ME. The 24 track album peaked at number 37 in the overall UK albums chart during the week of release, number 26 in the Independent label chart and number 15 in the Billboard Dance and Electronic Album Sales Chart.

Greatest Hits

What They Say - What They Say(The Remixes)
Other Side - Other Side
Visionary - Waves & Whirlwinds

Achievements

Maya gained 2 ‘Essential New Tunes’ from Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1 for two of her singles from the album, ‘Cherry Bomb’ and ‘Trails’ and to top of her year, she won Best Album and Best Producer at the DJ Mag Best of British Awards 2017 off the back of her ‘Take Flight’ album.

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