The Faders are hot property Source: The Daily Telegraph
THEY'RE sexy, sassy, fun and know their music.
Female DJs are hot music property and the latest act making noise is Sydney's The Faders, joining the ranks of Havana Brown, Anna Lunoe and The Nervo Twins.
"Being a female DJ is definitely a point of difference and makes it more exciting to watch," says The Faders' Milly Gattegno.
"People either love you or they hate you. We've never claimed to be the best technical DJs in the world, but we do it because we love music and we have fun, and I think that shows when we perform."
The Faders - Gattegno and her musical partner Suhana Lye - have built up a strong fanbase with their take on hip hop, R&B and party beats.
Over the past three years, they've played small to large venues across Sydney and toured the country with festivals.
They're also rumoured to be close to signing a lucrative deal with Universal Music, which would make them labelmates with Havana Brown.
"We completely fell into this," said Gattegno, who met Lye when the pair worked at MTV Australia.
"A friend was putting on a night for people in the industry and we did that, and from that night a whole bunch of gigs starting coming through.
"We never had a lesson and just taught ourselves on the spot."
Gattegno says the pair look up to indie DJ favourite Anna Lunoe and Melbourne-based DJ M.A.F.I.A, along with Brown, who has taken on the pop charts over the past year since the release of her debut single We Run The Night peaked at No.5 on the ARIA Singles Chart and follow-up track Get It was a big radio hit.
She's now gaining traction in America, with her music on high rotation on commercial stations across the US, including the country's biggest radio station Z100 in New York. "I rock up to a gig in my high heels and mini-skirt; I am very girlie," Brown told Insider last year, saying her music speaks for itself.
"But I love music and I know what I am doing: people see that when I play."
Former Aussie model sister duo Mim and Liv Nervo have also made their mark on the international music scene.
They tour the world constantly and are regulars in dance music mecca Ibiza as well as Las Vegas.
Their biggest break came when American pop star Kelly Rowland teamed up with David Guetta on their track When Love Takes Over.
They're now in hot demand - working with Ke$ha, Britney Spears and Kylie Minogue and have just agreed to do a project with Groove Armada, although they admit they nearly gave up music before smashing the charts with When Love Takes Over.
"We were living above a video store and cramming as many people as we could into this two-bedroom flat to keep the rent down," Liv tells Insider of surviving in London before the hit, which won Guetta a Grammy Award.
Being a female DJ has its benefits, says Live.
"I don't think there are many girls doing what we do," she says.
"We have been lucky enough to work with people who have really launched careers, like Ke$ha.
"We have been involved in the crossover aspect.
"Our parents say, 'Do you really do this for a job - is this really a job? Are you making enough money now?"'
Mim adds: "We tell them: 'Mum and Dad, we're finally off the breadline.' We love every five-star hotel we stay in. We used to slum it and save our pennies to get the buses out to the airports and stayed in really crappy, crappy hotels.
"But every day we are pinching ourselves and it means we are on a constant high."
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