tamasha family >> Kini Rao
With rhythm in her soul, funk in her attitude and the right records on the turntable – DJ Kini has been steadily creating waves in the EDM scene.
From opening for massive headline acts including Dale Anderson (Global Underground), Jerome Isma-Ae, Djuma Soundsystem, and Jody Wisternoff (Way Out West) to performing the closing act at this year's 1 Republic Festival (Pune) and GO: Madras – Kini is one of the most groundbreaking talents to have emerged from Southern India. Her popularity as the longstanding resident DJ at the Poison Hyderabad, is only proof to the fact.
After a 3 year educational stint Down Under; she returned home with a degree in International Business and a new-found love for electronic dance music! During her Aussie outing, Kini found herself grooving from one music festival to the other, following some of the World’s finest DJ's and experiencing first hand, the energy and madness of a live act. Caught adrift the bass & the tempo, she decided to create the same experience back home in India.
A self-taught DJ, Kini has been combining elements of sound in her attempt to create her distinct sonic identity since 2007, venturing into various genres of dance music from psychedelic trance, deep, funky house to minimal tech, however its just over the last year that she has finally found her niche and succumbed to the more bass driven genres of Tech House and Minimal Techno. She has learned to appreciate the beauty of subtle basic stripped down raw sound, combined with the right groove, dub elements and intricate rhythms which, resounds from the speakers when she hammers out energetic sets all across the country from Delhi to Bangalore and Mumbai to Goa.
Doing complete justice to her cheeky self, Kini's sound can best be described as an ambivalent mélange of distorted kicks, crispy hats, quirky samples, roguish techno, haunting melodies coupled with some pretty epic breakdowns!
She is currently working on playing LIVE while also actively promoting experimental EDM through her monthly mix series M.U.S.E. For music with a touch of soul subtly blended with her own quirky personality, Zainub aka, Kini, is a force to be reckoned with.
