Gothic Theatre
Reid Speed
Reid is recognized as the USA’s First Lady of Drum & Bass but has always played a range of sounds from speed garage /2 step & breaks to filthy electrohouse. In her 10 + year career she has released 2 classic mix cds on Breakbeat Science, DJ’d for network TV shows, thrown breakbeat parties, judged a Rockstar DJ contest, DJ’ed countless rave parties, festivals, nightclubs and parties of all shapes & sizes, movie premiers, museums (LA Natual History Museum and PS1 in Queens) and even the Lawn of of the US Capitol building with the top names from around the world. She stays busy regularly headling shows across North America and hosting Breakdown Radio on www.ibreaks.co.uk every Monday night. Besides Shure, Reid is or has been sponsored by Matix, Triple 5 Soul & Sinful clothing and played industry parties for Scion, Diesel, Pioneer, Numark, J Lindbergh, Beautiful Decay, Karma, JNCO, & BPM Magazine. She has been featured in countless magazines and appeared in the “Concentric Beats” drum & bass documentary and in her own short cartoon DJ superhero spot on Showtime. She also produces drum & breaks (“Danger” w/ Queensyze on Phonomental, “Mash Up” with Pacific for Twenty Hz, “Beware The Beats” and “Leaders Will Follow” for DJ Swamp, “Naughty Ride Remix” with Datcyde on Taciturn, “Deadline Remix” on Acumen, “The Bizzle” for Big H, and many more that have yet to see the light of day). She is also half electro project beep! with DJ Origin. Her tracks and mixes have been featured on pumawomen.com, Power 106 LA, shonext.com, Frisky Radio, “Bomb It”- a grafitti documentary, karmamagazine.com groove radio, planetdnb.com, “Baby Anne Rocks” mix cd, and countless other stations and mix shows worldwide as an evolving testament to her effectively wicked style of breaking it down and blowin’ up the spot.
