(VillageVoice.com) When West London house producer and DJ Maya Jane Coles plays Electric Zoo this Saturday, she'll have something of an uphill climb ahead of her. The young U.S. EDM audience isn't the most patient of crowds, growing sullen when DJs don't deliver bass drops like clockwork. Colesmakes dubstep-derived music as Nocturnal Sunshine, but she's better known for the subtle but incrementally powerful deep house she makes and plays under her given name, and that's what she'll be presenting this weekend.
Considering how blatant the EDM-festival audience likes its hooks—as shown earlier this year when veteran house DJs Mark Farina andDennis Ferrer were replaced during gigs in Las Vegas and Miami, respectively, for not playing music that was "commercial enough"—Coles might have legitimate reason for worry. Electric Zoo, she says, is the largest setting she has played. But the numbers don't faze her.
"I don't particularly tailor stuff," says Coles over the phone from her London home. "I would not play something that I personally don't like just to fit an audience. I never like to calculate things beforehand. The key thing for me is to find stuff that...
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