In August 1995,
Anastasia visited the first disco club in her
nightlife Club Master. Three months later, she
appeared before DJ stand, just as an interested
person. However, this moment can be named as a
start of her DJ career as far as she decided to
become a DJ.
For the following three months she practiced her
skills under the assistance of first DJs in Moscow.
At the end of 1995, she performed her first set
independently in club Doj. There she met DJ Ojo,
DJ Toto, DJ Smith and several other first DJs.
The first year she spent in many different places
in order to get additional experience, polish
her skills and promote her name.
In the period from mid 1996 to mid 1997
she actively performed in different nightclubs
in Moscow, such as: Universitetskiy, Robotech,
Shance, MDM, Master, Treasure Island, Manhattan-Express,
and others. During this period, she obtained good
experience and developed her own opinion about
music styles and different schools. Her name began
to appear on flyers of leading nightclubs in Moscow
and other cities.
Since 1997, not only has she given numerous
performances in Moscow, but also played in other
major cities of Russia. She was a guest DJ in
nightclubs of Tula, Taljati, Barnaul, Novosibirsk,
Vladimir, Saratov, Alma-A-Ta. The New Year of
1998 she met in Smolensk playing in the open-air
New Year Party on the central square in front
of a crowd with more than 7.000 people. During
1998 and at the beginning of 1999 she traveled
across Russia and former USSR republics and visited
Perm, Volgograd, Brjansk, Tashkent, Minsk and
others with concerts.
In 1999 she became a DJ-resident of Studio
the first most luxurious nigh club in Moscow,
which was awarded the Best Moscow Night Club of
1999. She gained the status of the DJ-resident
until its reconstruction into a casino.
In 2000, she got the status of
the resident DJ in the nightclub Garage ? one
of the oldest night clubs in Moscow famous for
its after-parties. There she worked together with
DJ Ojo one of the first DJs in Russia, DJ Grad
and DJ Teacher. Currently, she is one of the most
respected DJs in this club and played there with
the invited DJs such as Lady Dee (Chicago, USA)
and John Williams (UK). In 2001, she gave an interview
on Muz-TV (analogy of MTV in Russia) in a show
about nightlife in Moscow.
In March of 2002, ClubHouse a magazine
about nightlife, fashion, music, and culture published
an article about her and called her "a true
specialist and positive "club" hero
of Moscow night life at the beginning of the Twenty
First century". On March 3, 2002, she participated
in a party in the biggest nightclub in Volgograd
(1000 people) organized by magazine "OM"
another magazine about fashion, music, and nightlife.
In autumn 2002 she played for the opening parties
of two brand new clubs in Moscow "Souffl"
and Cocon. Despite their recent opening, it has
received many positive opinions from night-life
citizens of Moscow and is getting really popular.
From 1999 and up to now she has been playing in
the leading clubs of Moscow such as Most, Beefeater
Republic, Byblos, Virus, Zeppelin, Ministerstvo,
Hearts, A-Priori, Jet Set, etc. She also travels
much across Russia performing in such cities as
Sochi, Ekaterinburg, Syktyvkar, etc.
In July 13 and 14 of 2002, she performed on Sun
Dance Music Festival 2002 (Main Arena and VIP
Arena) in Tallinn, Estonia where about 270 DJs
from different countries of the world met to perform
before a 30000-people crowd. She was the only
one DJ to represent Moscow nightlife and Moscow
DJs.
November 7th the major nightclubs of Moscow merged
into the biggest party in the Moscow nightlife.
The best DJs of Moscow were invited to spin there.
She was among them and opened the party for 5000
people.
In January 2003, the German magazine MERIAN,
writing about the leading creative people in Moscow
published the interview with her calling her amazon
hero of Moscow night life".
At the beginning of 2003, she signed a contract
with a European booking agency and on 18th of
May she played for first time on the international
arena Le Bazaar. It is the French "Hall of
Fame" all world-famous top ten DJs played
there. On 31st of May she participated in Rock
It party in Paris ? the party organized on the
boat standing at the entrance to Les Chants Elise.
3500 people were dancing inside on 3 dance floors
and about 800 crowded outside waiting to come
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