Lea Luna news info and downloads in Music

Lea Luna news info and downloads in Music

"It's been a crazy ride," she says, "but this is only the beginning." Electro-house goddess DJ Lea Luna has been on the up-and-up since 1999, rocking many a crowd from underground to commercial, across the US and abroad. Her white-hot enthusiasm on stage and in the studio reflects her 9 year career, which has been gaining exponential momentum since she first stepped up to the decks as a tiny teen. "I'm taking my music further this year than I ever thought I would have when I first started spinning records. Its unreal how many different avenues there are inside electronic music: how many subcultures, how many diversely beautiful artists, fans and enthusiasts there are. After having the privilege of exploring this world and the music in it, I've become a pioneer. I'm writing, collecting, and spinning styles that don't even have names to them yet. This is truly a divine epiphany, and it's redirecting my course in life as a professional musician." What do white-collared europeans at the Playboy TV International event in Lisbon, Portugal have in common with 4,000 blinking pink furry-collared raving teens at Kandifest in San Bernardino, California? Absolutely nothing, you might think, but last year Lea Luna stood staged in front of both crowds and illuminated them with a powerful house set, and from each culture she provoked the same ecstatic positive energy. Everywhere she goes, they dance. You may have seen her catching the warm breeze on a island sound stage built right on the Caribbean Ocean at her set in Cozumel, Mexico, or caught sight of her on television spinning atop the cold snowy slopes in Breckenridge, CO at the North American Open ski tournament. Maybe you met her after her set backstage at a corporate sponsored breast cancer benefit in San Diego, or behind flimsy caution tape at an underground party inside a closed skate park in Reno. Whether you see her rocking it on the playa at Burning Man or pool-side at Wetgrooves WMC, sonic chameleon Lea Luna "fits in the mix" everywhere. She's played underground tracks alongside artists like Frankie Bones and Heather Heart. She's dropped commercial rock/reggae remixes opening for legends Steven Tyler and Chuck Berry. he list goes on and on. From concert stage, to super-club, to upscale lounge, to amphitheater, to festival, to warehouse... Lea Luna has sewn together the seams of a multifarious global vibe with her own inner resonance, been track selection, and artistic personality. "This is what music as the universal language was intended to imbue. I'm into not only meshing cultures of people, but musical styles, and forms of art. I especially love the fashion element. Whether the event calls for a cocktail dress, pink wig, swimsuit, parka, or spacesuit... I'm there, in my own representation of it. The same goes for music. When you ask the average guy what kind of music he listens to, he'll tell you he likes a bit of everything. Doesn't everyone? I'm becoming the kind of artist who flirts with pop while married to electro... yes, all of a sudden I feel myself leaning toward pop-stardom! I've been writing and recording pop hooks, I'm practicing choreography with 6 professionals that are now my dance team, I'm collaborating with all kinds of talented recording artists, and I'm STILL constantly bumping old school underground vinyl in my basement. You'll hear the underground in the framework of my new music. To those less traveled, this could look like an identity crisis, but I'm piecing together a hybrid. Its hard to picture how all this branching out would actually refine me, but let's put it this way: the idea of putting peanut butter and jelly together may have seemed unconventional at first, but it was actually a stroke of delicious genius. Right now I'm in the studio making pop/rock/electro/downtempo sandwiches, and its exhilarating. Soon my new original style will be coined and polished, you'll hear me on the radio and know that its unmistakably me." Lea Luna has very impressive international press. She is featured in a major ad campaign for Tascam, seen in magazines such as EQ, Electronic Musician, and Guitar Center. She has had numerous solely-featured event ads, interviews, and blurbs hailing her appearance in dozens of US cities, as well as magazine, billboard, tour guide, and television representation overseas. Her broadcasts include: internet radio Teklab.fm racking up millions of listeners worldwide, Clearchannel's Denver-based 93.3 FM, KGNU Boulder, and a past history of college radio at UCLA and Metro State University in Denver. Her CD is frequent to the speakers in many high-fashion storefronts, California fashion shows, and even 24 Hour Fitness spin classes. Watch out this year for Lea Luna's new release, including radio edits and electronic remixes co-produced by Mike Hiratzka (as heard in the sounds of DJ D:Fuse, DJ Rap, and Kristy Thirsk) and J. Scott G. (formerly of Deepsky, currently Soul in the Machine, remix artist for Madonna, Frank Sinatra and more). Many other collaborative efforts are to be announced. Describing Lea's upcoming new release - LUNANIMOUS is one voice, one massive. The massive is speaking one universal language; at every rock show, night club, house party, through every radio station, in every ipod. Lea Luna's LUNANIMOUS is a new dialect of the rock-tronica tongue that both the underground and overground massives can fluently express. "Love and music are the only universal languages, and I speak them both so fluently and intermittently." -Lea Luna