The High Priestess of the Motherbeat, the DJ, producer, and trans ecstatic from Chicago runs the T4T LUV NRG label with her loving b2b partner Octo Octa.

Photo: Desmond Picotte

While she’s been playing and programming keyboards since she was a child, the long-time resident at Chicago's Smart Bar and DJ for the Bunker NY, starting mixing records in 1994 at the age of 18. A recording artist for her own label, Interdimensional Transmissions (Detroit) and Naive Records (Lisbon), she conducts the psychedelic rites of the Motherbeat with her friends at Pittsburgh's Hot Mass and at Room 4 Resistance in Berlin.

When Drew was 18 she had an intensely disruptive spiritual awakening. House music cracked her open and revealed a mystery contained within sound. This »Motherbeat« – as she would call it – has since helped Eris to heal, create art, and find her friends for over 25 years. Motherbeat is a fundamental primordial pulsation; a whispering geometric wind with the power to heal; the archetype of a goddess ascending.

Her experiences as a musician and dancer showed her that rave is a powerful apparatus which can be used to transform individual lives and communities. In an effort to contextualise the rave experience, she also gives talks around the world on the connections between dance music culture and other ecstatic traditions such as shamanism. In addition, she is an advocate for trans/non-binary/queer people and mentors aspiring DJs and electronic musicians.

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