Electric Djinn (born in

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) is the solo musical project of

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electronic musician and

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Neptune Sweet, based in

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. Her EP is entitled ''The Singles'' (2014). She has also released two

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s: "Deer Xing" (2015), the video for which was reviewed by

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, and "Phoenix" (2019).

Background

The

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of a first-generation

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and mixed-heritage American, Sweet spent her formative years in

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. After leaving art school, she moved to

Career

Neptune Sweet started Electric Djinn with a group of four others in the 2010s: visual artists Mike Estabrook,

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, Emmanual Migriño, and jazz drummer David Gould in New York City. They met and practiced in South Slope,

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and recorded an eight-track

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, ''Rejector,'' at Emandee Studios,

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. Interested in exploring the possibility of virtual

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s, Sweet decided to go her own way. After disbanding the group, she self-recorded ''The Singles'' as Electric Djinn in 2014 then "Deer Xing" the following year. Researching alternative music venues to play at as a solo artist, she applied for and got into the Make Music Festival in the East Village in 2013 then subsequently curated its program the next several years. Also in 2013, she played at 1335 Mabini gallery in

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and the Colony Cafe in Woodstock, New York. Two years later she played at Post Pablo Gallery in the

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' capital, at the Dacha Project in Freeville, New York, and Black Bear Bar in

, the former Galapagos art space. 2016 saw performances in

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, at Bliss on Bliss Studio in

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, and at Aliya Surf Camp Resort in Baler, Philippines, the latter a result of an artist's residency at AIR Aurora in Baler. The next year she played at New York's the Delanceyand with visual artist

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. Her

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with Hupfield continued into 2018 with her providing the sound to the latter's performance piece during the January opening of Hupfield's

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at Galerie de l'UQAM in

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and in the piece ''The Kind of Dream You've Never Seen'' at the

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in July. She also played an event at Ambrosia Elixirs store in Bushwick and continues to play at the Delancey. Electric Djinn

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d the

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for "Deer Xing" in 2017, and it was reviewed by

In addition to being listed in Female:Pressure, her "Phoenix" was reviewed favorably by Glamglare, with Elke Nominikat writing that the track is "gorgeous." She further writes that Electric Djinn "creates highly appealing indie electronic songs that are grounded in low frequencies, programmed beats and topped off with virtual synths and processed vocals.... The results are actually quite mesmerizing and emotional."

Discography

* ''Rejector'' (EP, 2010s) * "Deer Xing" (single, 2015) * "Phoenix" (single, 2019)

Professional affiliations

* Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) * Women in Music (WIM)

References

{{Reflist, 2

External links

Official website

Twitter account
Living people Musicians from Grand Rapids, Michigan Musicians from Michigan Year of birth missing (living people)