Housing Authority Real Audio

As a teenager growing up in Chicago in the late 80's, Jennifer Maher (a.k.a. Jennifer Haley) was fortunate enough to find house music at the point of its inception. She was involved with a group of new wave DJs based on the south side who were adamantly anti-house, but the sound intrigued her and soon became an obsession. However, her interest in dance music was put on a back burner as she went on to pursue other arts. A classically trained vocalist, for several years Jennifer performed in cafe's with an acoustic guitar as a folk singer of sorts. In 1992 she moved to New York state for graduate school and became seriously immersed in the rave scene. It wasn't long before she got behind the turntables herself. By the time she received her MFA in painting in 1996, she was busy with residencies at two Albany clubs, the Launch Pad and Delerium.

In the years since she began spinning, Jennifer has played numerous parties around the Northeast, Midwest, and Canada. In 1999 she opened for Moby on the Albany stop of his tour supporting the album "Play," and in March of 2000 her mix tape "Aural Fixation" won first place in the Mixer Magazine/TDK mix tape competition. Recently she headlined a massive rave/fashion show in Quebec City featuring an all-female line-up, and in the spring of 2000 was the regularly featured DJ on a television variety show, "Seize the Night," produced in Manhattan for export to Japan.

Jennifer is passionate about the compositional aspect of DJing. Before each set she spends many hours orchestrating her records in such a way that they blend harmonically and rhythmically and only feature the best moments of each track. She delivers a driving blend of hard disco house, breaks, and the occasional techy trance, packing as many records and as much interest into a set as possible. She hopes to begin producing her own tracks this year in order to re-incorporate her singing and songwriting skills into her musical life.

Mixer Magazine Review - March 2000
"A ceramics artist and painter, Jennifer showed that fourth-dimensional sense of genres-melding possibilities all great dj's have with her tape. Starting out on the French tip, she worked into hypno-groove territory until the Earth Wind and Fire 'On and On' bootleg caught us smiling and she promptly took us into banging-land from there with an Amador 'House Music' remix that led into a slamming second half that'd make Derrick Carter blush."

Bubble Crew.