Leah Chisholm, from eugene, oregon, and a jazz trained pianist before anything else. ninja tune's own description of her puts the piano first: someone who takes inspiration from jazz and prefers spontaneous, live collaboration to pre programmed structures.

two albums on counter records, Light Places in may 2023 and Dotr in october 2024, the second of them named after the way she used to sign notes to her parents before she could spell daughter. dj mag made her best producer of 2023 off the back of the first one. her single most played track is her remix of taylor swift's Cruel Summer.

the bigger thing she has built is FEMME HOUSE, a registered non profit she co founded in 2019 with lauren spalding, who records as hermixalot. it started with about a dozen people round laptops at ableton's los angeles studio. it now runs free and pay what you can workshops, two fellowships and an awards ceremony, and says it has taught fifteen thousand creators across seventy seven countries and put more than a million dollars back into free programming.

We've seen Moog help in the same way. We've just seen big gatekeepers [such as] Spotify open doors.

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she also runs a label called Yes Yes Yes and co founded Animal Talk with SOFI TUKKER, who mentored her into producing in the first place.

in denver she plays the day trip block party at the junkyard on 26 september, a one in the afternoon start, on a bill with ZHU, Purple Disco Machine, coco & breezy, swimming paul and black rave culture.