Gayle Sans career already began in the
late 80s in her hometown Sinapore. She started as a warmup
DJ for Bands such as "Kool and the Gang" "Earth
Wind and Fire" and the "Commodores"
Leaving her native Singapore some in the early 90s, nobody
expected such a massive success for Gayle in the music business.
Gayle's first steps into the London clubs were via DJing at
record company parties, various one-off guest spots and fashion
shows. These slots soon led to Gayle being made resident at
'Reach for the Sky' at London's Limelight club, where she
played alongside global DJs which Gayle describes as "the
steepest learning curve possible".
Having honed her DJing skills and broadened her understanding
of music, Gayle began to experiment with the harder side of
dance music, particularly the lesser known techno sounds coming
into Britain from Europe and the US.
Her chance to pioneer this music in England came when Gayle
became resident at Universe's legendary Final Frontier club,
at Club U.K. in south London, which then moved on to become
Universe Voyager at their new club, the Complex in north London.
Widely regarded as one of the best club nights in the world,
it was not long before Gayle had amassed a following of techno
pilgrims who would make journeys from as far as Edinburgh
to hear her play.
Gayle's reputation spread like wildfire over the techno
centres of Europe, most notably a residency once a month at
the legendary Omen club in Frankfurt, the socalled 'Mecca
of techno'. Other European and American dates have included
some of the most underground clubs in the world, like Bionic
in Detroit, Pure Pleasure parties in Chicago, Soma in Montreal,
Twilo in New York, Zouk Club in Singapore, Florida 135 in
Spain, Fuse Club in Belgium and many more all over Europe
and the U.S.A.
In 2000 she was voted number 6. of the most popular international
DJs in Germany. Regaring the massive competition of the worlds
DJs it was the honour of her hard work in the last years.
DJing has naturally led to various studio work. Gayle has
developed a sound that takes the intelligent beats of the
underground, funky/hard/groove techno sound mixed with her
very own style.
She has recorded tracks under the name Transmakus namely
Universe Anthem and Violator which have been included on the
Tribal Gathering 94 and 95 albums respectively.
Gayle has also recorded a single 'Way of the Dragon' for
Rainforest Records, mixed a live set for the official Tribal
Gathering 96 album. On her own label Equator she released
some solo Eps and collaboration Eps with Mark Williams.
In 1998 she mixed the CD from the Fine Audio Mix CD series.
The success of this CD overwhelmed everyone who was involved
in this project. The CD was sold out in just two months.
In 1999 she released a new EP on Touch Tone. Again this
release was sold out in a recordtime. In february 2000 she
released her Brickliners EP on Fine Audio Rec. The first pressing
was in a limited edition on white vinyl and after the sellout
of this, the next pressing came in black and was sold out
before the actual releasedate already.
In the beginning of 2000 she released her second Mix CD
called Gayle San at the wheels of steel on the new label Galvanic.
For that release Gayle went on a big Worldtour bringing her
into more then 30 clubs in just three months. The tour went
from the USA to Europe (Germany, Hungary, Czech Rep., Belgium,
Netherlands, France) to Asia. This CD was votet the best Mix
CD of the releasemonth in many magazines.
Also in the year 2000 she started a new collaboration with
Jam el mar (Jam and Spoon, Dance 2 Trance) This collaboration
runs under the name Jamsan The first release was released
on the label Cry Baby and was highly rated in many magazines
and recordshop salescharts.
In March 2000 she released her Backbone ep on Black Nation
from Kalamazzo, USA and in April her The Lab epon Primate
UK.
As if this would be not enough she mixed the Titan Edition
Techno on the austrian Label XXX and did the official Compilation
of the famous german rave Timewarp
In Summer 2001 she relaunched her own label Equator. The
first release from the new series is a cooperation with Jay
Denham and releases from Flatner Ingram, Justin Berkovi, Bryan
Zentz, Cristian Varela, Keita Shinohara and many more will
follow. Gayles idea is to give also lesser known producers
from all over the world a platform to release their productions.
It will be interesting what tracks Gayle will find for Equator.
Next to her successfull DJ carreer and her busy studiowork
her famous and popular DJ gigs, the future of Gayle San never
looked brighter.
