Estella Boersma Is Ready To DJ With Gusto For Her Miami Debut
Since he started DJing three years ago, the 24-year-old has been playing fast-paced techno that mixes deep emotions and ambient renditions of old NASA space missions.
Boersma's next stop will take him to a foreign land, the home of Little Haiti, where he will make his Miami debut on Friday, February 2nd. Expect him to play a very dynamic set with unrelenting energy. However, Boersma doesn't know if it will be pure "hard techno" from start to finish, or if Sandia will give him some freedom to experiment.
"I feel it," Boersma told The New Times from his home in Berlin. She wears a long-sleeved black shirt and a cross pendant, accented by her spiky hair bangs, casually smoking a cigarette as the cat dances in the background. "When I play, 99 percent I rely on instinct. I choose songs in advance and buy records to see what I can't find online. I don't know if it's a heavy techno set, a crazy, happy concert. , or slow. And if something deep is going to happen.
If genetics are any indication, Borsma's shooting instinct runs in his veins. He noted that he and his parents had a strong connection to electronic music. "When I was a kid, we used to go to Ravos," she recalls fondly. "Sometimes I have to go to my grandparents' house on weekends and I'm so sad I can't go. I always say I can't wait until I'm 18."
On a random night at Amsterdam's famous Club de Skool, 18-year-old Boerma gets caught up in the rhythm of the night and has little desire to escape his fate. "It was crazy in my life. I've never seen people so free," he said.
Fate conspired again and he ended up with a friend who had an old monitor system he used to play techno music on. "I asked myself: What is this? Star Trek?" It seemed very mysterious to me.
After a quick tutorial from a friend on how to make music with analog gear, he immediately had to pick up a synthesizer. He went to Buck's Music Store in Amsterdam, bought a simple amplifier and started making raw sounds. "I asked my friend, 'If you make this kind of music, should we go to the music store?' I asked him."
But thanks to TikTok, Boorsma didn't go from bedroom DJ to globe-trotting producer. He followed a seemingly unconventional path: he learned to produce and then devoted himself to DJing . In the year 32 .
It took four years to rehearse, but the five-minute track set the tone for his production skills, featuring breaks, trance synths and some tricky acid lines.
"I started figuring it out mostly on my own and eventually the songs came together in a really interesting way and it was really fun," says Boerma. "It was a great experience, but I started it for fun and I loved it."
It's techno festival pride for Zuma, but his role as a DJ carries just as much weight as his modeling career. She began modeling at the age of 14, appearing on the cover of publications such as Vogue Italia and walking at Paris and New York fashion weeks and for brands such as Louis Vuitton and Marc Jacobs.
Although Borsma isn't ready to give up modeling, techno's interest is stronger these days. "It's an organic transition," Borma says. "I like artistic freedom and the freedom to present myself rather than going into a shoot where I can be rigid, which isn't necessarily a bad thing."
So far, Boorsma's rapid foray into electronic music has survived criticism from models and DJs alike. Of course, such thinking seems very narrow. Boersma wears many hats: model, producer, anime fan, illustrator.
"I can't believe how fast the time is because it's amazing," she said. "Everything starts to blend together and sometimes I feel like my memories didn't happen or weren't real, even though they definitely were. It's like another life in another time. We're in a different universe and that's the truth." It's also good. I think it's a good feeling."
Estella Borsma features Izlo, Spice Crime and Nougiert. Friday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m. at The House, 6391 NW Second Ave., Miami; instagram.com/home.miami. Tickets range from $20.62 to $36.37 at dice.fm.
