Maya Jane Coles

Maya Jane Coles
Background information
Also known as Nocturnal Sunshine
Born London, England, United Kingdom
Genres Deep house, tech house, electronica, trip hop, dubstep
Occupation(s) Producer, audio engineer, DJ
Years active 2006–present[1]
Labels Dogmatik, 1trax, Real Tone, Hypercolour, Mobilee, I/Am/Me, 20:20 Vision, Kobalt[2]
Associated acts She Is Danger
Website MayaJaneColes.com

Maya Jane Coles is a music producer, audio engineer and DJ based in the United Kingdom, born in London of British and Japanese descent.[3][4] Under her real name, she mostly composes and plays house music, while her alias Nocturnal Sunshine is dedicated to dubstep.[5] She also takes part in an electronic dub duo called She Is Danger with Lena Cullen.[3][6]

Début

Maya declares she started to have a passion for music in early teens and decided to learn how to produce music using the Cubase software program when she was fifteen.[4] She first produced hip-hop and trip-hop. A few years later, she released her first two records on Dogmatik Records, in 2008 and 2009, which were more house music based.

Breakthrough

Having already remixed acts such as Massive Attack and Gorillaz with her duo She Is Danger,[7] Maya gained her breakthrough exposure in 2010, when she released a four-track EP on Franck Roger's label,[8] Real Tone Records. She was then named by DJ Mag as one of the best newcomers that year,[9] as her track "What They Say", taken from the eponymous EP, was also one of the most playlisted by DJs on Resident Advisor.[10][11]

In 2011, she featured on many specialised magazines' covers like Mixmag's,[12] and her growing fame opened new doors, such as the BBC's, which invited her to record an Essential Mix of her own which was later nominated for Essential Mix of the Year 2011.[13] Later on that year, she was voted ‘Best Newcomer 2011′ at the Ibiza DJ Awards 2011 and came ninth place in Resident Advisor's annual DJ ranking.[14]

In 2012, Maya won 'Best House/Garage/Deep House' track at the Miami Winter Music Conference 2012,[15] 'Staff Pick: Artist of the year 2011' at the Beatport Awards,[16] DJ Mag's ‘Producer of the Year 2011′,[17] Mixmag's ‘Best Breakthrough DJ 2011′,[18] FACT's 'Female Artist 2011',[19] and Symphonic Distribution's 'Artist Of The Year 2012' [20]

Later in the year, Maya Jane Coles was invited to record a mix for the DJ Kicks collection. The volume she has produced was released in April,[21] and obtained a favourable reception from specialised media.[22][23] In November, Rolling Stone places Maya Jane Coles at the fifteenth rank of its world's 25 most influential DJs list.[24]

Maya was later invited back to record a second BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix in 2013.[25]

Maya's début album Comfort was on her own I/AM/ME label and Kobalt Label Services internationally in summer 2013. It featured guest appearances from artists such as Tricky, Miss Kittin, Nadine Shah, Alpines, Thomas Knights and Karin Park.

Maya also produced Fabric 75 (released April 2014), the 75th edition of London nightclub Fabric's monthly compilation album.[26]

In late-2014, the title track of Coles' 2010 EP What They Say gained a re-surge in popularity after it was sampled in the Nicki Minaj song "Truffle Butter", a collaborative track with Drake and Lil Wayne from her album The Pinkprint.[27]

Discography

As Maya Jane Coles

Studio Albums


2013: Comfort

Compilations

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Mixmag [28]
Resident Advisor [22]
Spin [23]


Originals & Extended plays

Year Title Label Reviews
2008 Sick Panda Dogmatik Records
2009 Monochrome EP Dogmatik Records
2009 The Dazed EP 1TRAX
2009 Not In My House EP 1TRAX
2010 No Sympathy Elite Records
2010 Bubbler EP Loco Records Supreme
2010 What They Say Real Tone Records Resident Advisor [29]
2010 Cool Down EP Dogmatik Records
2010 Humming Bird EP Hypercolour
2011 Beat Faster Mobilee
2011 Focus Now 20:20 Vision Resident Advisor [30]
2011 The Remixes Real Tone Records
2011 Dont Put Me In Your Box EP Hypercolour Resident Advisor [31]
2012 Not Listening K7
2012 Watcher Dogmatik
2012 Getting Freaky Heidi presents... Jackathon Jams
2012 Easier To Hide I/AM/ME
2013 Comfort I/Am/Me, Kobalt
2014 From the Dark Mobilee Records

Remixes

Year Title Artist Label Reviews
2008 New System (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Chris Ibbot Dogmatik
2008 Fuck Me Pumps (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Amy Winehouse Island
2008 Uncle Tech (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Todd Terry 1TRAX
2009 Romanov's Boogie (Maya Jane Coles Remix) The Sun Paulo Wisdom Records
2011 Cicadas (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Tom Middleton Lo:Rise
2011 Crash (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Fritz & Lang ft. Lizokot Airdrop Records
2011 Your Style (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Maceo Plex Cross Town Rebels
2011 O' So (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Inxec & Mark Chambers Leftroom Records
2011 Next To You (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Marvin Zeyss Brown Eyed Boyz
2011 City Life (Maya Jane Coles Remix) DJ T Get Physical
2011 Ritual Union (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Little Dragon Peacefrog
2011 Time To Dance (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Tricky Domino
2011 Creeping (Maya Jane Coles Remix) 2:54 Fiction
2012 Bring It Back' (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Franck Rodger Real Tone
2012 Lost and Found (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Lianne La Havas Warners
2012 She's On Fire (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Bo Saris Bo Rush
2012 Spectrum (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Florence & The Machine Island Records
2013 Fiction (Maya Jane Coles Remix) The xx Young Turks
2013 So High (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Big Dope P Moveltraxx
2013 Free ft. Emeli Sandé (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Rudimental Asylum Records
2013 Blue Skies (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Ella Fitzgerald Verve Records
2013 First Fires ft. Grey Reverend (Maya Jane Coles Remix) Bonobo Ninja Tune

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As Nocturnal Sunshine

Originals

Year Title Label Reviews
2010 Can't Hide the Way I Feel LMD SkunkWorks Resident Advisor [32]
2010 Meant To Be !K7

Remixes

Year Title Artist Label Reviews
2010 Not Your Teddy Bear (Nocturnal Sunshine Remix) Backwords Elastica
2011 Ms Cooper (Nocturnal Sunshine Remix) Floyd Lavine ft. Mey Polydor
2011 Cocoon (Nocturnal Sunshine Remix) Alpines Polydor
2012 Pixellated People (Nocturnal Sunshine Remix) Jess Mills Island

As She is Danger

Remixes

Year Title Artist Label Reviews
2009 Under The Sheets (She is Danger Remix) Ellie Goulding Polydor
2010 Girl I Love You (She is Danger Remix) Massive Attack Virgin Records
2010 Gangster (She is Danger Remix) Dreadzone Dubwiser
2010 On Melancholy Hill (She is Danger Remix) Gorillaz Parlophone
2010 Doubt (She is Danger Remix) Delphic Polydor

Music videos

Year Title Director(s)
2014 Comfort Jonas K Lord[33]
2014 Come Home Jonas K Lord[34]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.MaliciousDamage.biz/gigs
  2. ↑ http://www.MusicWeek.com/news/read/kobalt-signs-maya-to-label-services-roster/054336
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Maya Jane Coles: A young Londoner infuses tech-house with deep vibes and dubwise sounds". XLR8.com. 6 April 2011.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Gareth Owen (1 March 2011). "Maya Jane Coles - What she says". Electronic Beats.
  5. ↑ IMO Records. "Maya Jane Coles Biography", IMO Records Retrieved on 25 June 2012.
  6. ↑ "Sound of 2011 - Maya Jane Coles". SoonNight.com.
  7. ↑ "She Is Danger remix credits". Discogs.
  8. ↑ http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/franckroger
  9. ↑ "In Focus: Maya Jane Coles". DJ Mag.
  10. ↑ "Top 100 charted tracks in 2010". Resident Advisor.
  11. ↑ "Maya Jane Coles Bio, Music, News & Shows". DJZ.com. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  12. ↑ "Covers - May 2011". Mixmag.
  13. ↑ "Essential Mix - Maya Jane Coles". BBC Radio 1. 9 July 2011.
  14. ↑ "RA Poll: Top DJs of 2011". Resident Advisor. 6 December 2011.
  15. ↑ http://int.partysan.net/clublife/idma-2012-results-award-for-best-global-club-goes-to-space-ibiza/
  16. ↑ http://www.beatport.com/artist/maya-jane-coles/70491
  17. ↑ http://www.djmag.com/news/detail/3149
  18. ↑ http://www.ents24.com/web/artist/160779/Maya_Jane_Coles.html
  19. ↑ http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/22/facts-alternative-brits-the-winners/?pid=2315
  20. ↑ http://www.symphonicdistribution.com/2012/symnews/2012-award-winners/
  21. ↑ Will Lynch (6 February 2012). "Maya Jane Coles mixes DJ-Kicks". Resident Advisor.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Andrew Ryce (17 April 2012). "Maya Jane Coles - DJ-Kicks". Resident Advisor. Coles isn't concerned with exclusivity, nor staying particularly up to date with brand new tracks, and she doesn't need to be—her mixing carries enough personality to make it distinctive without any of that contextual baggage. It's not a particularly flashy or technically thrilling mix, it's just one of the UK's most intriguing young DJs at the peak of her powers, a well-timed snapshot of a burgeoning big name.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 Philip Sherburne (20 April 2012). "Maya Jane Coles - DJ-Kicks". Spin.
  24. ↑ "The 25 DJs That Rule the Earth". Rolling Stone. 9 November 2012.
  25. ↑ Tregoning, Jack. "Listen: Maya Jane Coles returns to the Essential Mix". inthemix.com.au. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
  26. ↑ http://www.fabriclondon.com/store/fabric-75.html
  27. ↑ Nicki Minaj feat. Drake and Lil Wayne's Truffle Butter sample of Maya Jane Coles's What They Say | WhoSampled
  28. ↑ James Lawrence (23 April 2012). "Maya Jane Coles - DJ-Kicks". Mixmag. Varied, well thought-out and fresh.
  29. ↑ Philip Sherburne (23 November 2010). "Maya Jane Coles - What They Say". Resident Advisor.
  30. ↑ Greg Sawyer (20 May 2011). "Maya Jane Coles - Focus Now". Resident Advisor.
  31. ↑ Andrew Ryce (14 November 2011). "Maya Jane Coles - Don't Put Me In Your Box". Resident Advisor.
  32. ↑ Andrew Ryce (1 December 2010). "Nocturnal Sunshine - Can't Hide the Way I Feel". Resident Advisor.
  33. ↑ "Maya Jane Coles 'Comfort' by Jonas K Lord". PromoNews. Retrieved April 17, 2014.
  34. ↑ "Maya Jane Coles 'Come Home' by Jonas K Lord". PromoNews. Retrieved April 17, 2014.

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