Lola's first exposure to house music came over the airwaves. Cruising down the highway, she happened
upon a Tony Humphries radio broadcast from Club Zanzibar, and her life literally changed. From that day forward, she sought
out house and dance music wherever she could find it, from early pop house acts like Black Box and the 49ers to cassette tape
compilations of UK acid house. A particularly formative teenage experience in an Italian disco further solidified her love
for dance music and nightlife culture.
Upon moving to New York City in 1990, she immediately set out to find more. Attending
events as diverse as Giant Step, Soul Kitchen, Underground Network, Ray Hands' Loft, Bang the Party, Konkrete Jungle, Body
& Soul, Shelter, and Be Yourself and hanging out in clubs like Sound Factory, the Tunnel, Mars, ClubUSA, Twilo, and the
Palladium to smaller venues like Sound Factory Bar, 205 Club, Den of Theives, and Coney Island High, Lola's musical perspective
came to embody a collision and cohesion between various strains of underground music.
Lola started DJing in 1999, after
spending many years on NYC’s dancefloors. Fascinated by the relationship between dancer and DJ, she decided to give
it a go herself and bought her first pair of Techics 1200s. In May 2000, Lola approached her friend Eric “E-Man”
Clark with an idea for a party, and they launched Deep See, a party that had a ten-year run in NYC pushing deep underground
house music. Lola has held several residencies in NYC, including Deep See, Stimulus Response, and two internet radio shows:
ASND on CyberJamz and Teknotica on AxiomOnline.
In 2008, Lola teamed up with DJ Spider to run
Plan B Recordings, a label focusing on experimental deep house, techno, ambient, and noise projects.
With three vinyl releases and over ten digital releases to date, Plan B is growing, now representing NYC, Chicago, Florida,
Amsterdam, and Detroit.
Lola's DJ style is an amalgamation of deep house, techno, ambient interludes, dub,
thick basslines, and basically anything that sits left of center and below the radar. Lola has played throughout New York
City at venues including Cielo, Pacha, Love, Santos Party House, Sapphire Bar, the Sullivan Room, APT, Frank's Lounge (Brooklyn),
Halcyon (Brooklyn), Axiom Studios (Newark, NJ) and others, and in N. America in Montréal, Canada, Playa del Carmen, Mexico,
New Haven, CT, Miami, FL, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, PA, Boston, MA, East Hampton, NY, and Washington, D.C. Lola has been
featured in the press in Time Out New York, clubplanet.com, AM New York, and bouncefm.com.
Lola has had the honor of
sharing with booth with dozens of great talents, including Charles Webster, Radio Slave, DJ Pierre, Todd Terry, Daz I-Kue,
Mike Huckaby, Alton Miller, Rick Wilhite, Patrice Scott, Keith Worthy, Malik Alston, Titonton Duvante, Slam Mode, Tony Humphries,
Hector Romero, Tedd Patterson, Joel Mull, Black Jazz Consortium (Fred P), Oscar G, That Kid Chris, Cevin Fisher, Mr. V, MKL,
Jeannie Hopper, jojoflores and many others.
Lola began making her own music in 2008 and is working on several pieces
which she hopes to share with the world soon.
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