DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ (abbreviated DJSTTDJ) is a pseudonymous London-based electronic producer.[3][4] Her name is a reference to the television sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch, inspired by a comment on YouTube.[5][6] She released her debut album, Makin' Magick, in 2017. Her main musical influences include plunderphonics musicians and the 2010s UK outsider house scene.[1][2]
DJ Sabrina collaborated with her sibling Salem on Makin' Magick, which led to Salem being credited as a member of a duo with Sabrina by some media outlets.[4] "[T]he bio has always mentioned Sabrina and Salem, but I like the idea of it being a mystery," the artist has stated.[7]
Influences
DJ Sabrina started making house music in 2014, influenced by the release of Caustic Window by Aphex Twin.[2] She was first exposed to the UK outsider house scene from DJ Seinfeld in 2016 through the music blog aggregator Hype Machine.[2] DJ Sabrina has cited albums such as the Avalanches' Since I Left You and Daft Punk's Homework as major influences.[2][5] Starting with Enchanted, she began to incorporate elements of acid house into her music.[1] DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ often samples music and television shows from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.[1][8] DJ Sabrina has stated that her album cover arts are inspired by pixel art of '90s video games.[9]
Career
DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ debuted in 2017 with the release of a two-hour-long album, Makin' Magick. Three more albums followed in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, she released Charmed, a three-hour-long album that became "an underground pandemic hit".[3][4] In April 2021, she released the single "Try Not to Be Afraid" in collaboration with musicians Delilah Brao, Luke Markinson, and Anyela Gómez, which was described as "highly nostalgic".[9] DJ Sabrina the Teenage DJ has since released four further albums in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In addition to her albums and singles, she also produces mixtapes, which she call "combinisions", a portmanteau of "combinational composition". She has released three sets of combinisions, each with five to seven mixes.[10] Most combinisions are between 30 and 40 minutes long, but some exceed an hour, and Homeshake is over two hours long.[citation needed]
^Cills, Hazel; Hart, Otis; Flanagan, Andrew; Cruz, Reanna; Tavakoli, Mina (11 December 2021). "The Best Electronic Music of 2021". NPR. Retrieved 8 November 2022.