BeXta (real name Rebecca Poulsen) is a female Trance and Hard Dance DJ and producer. Poulsen studied at Queensland Conservatorium of Music for a Bachelor of Sonology. She started creating her own music using keyboards and computers in 1992 and started performing live as BeXta in 1993. In 1995 she released her first single, "Lunar Tango", on an independent label in Melbourne. Her debut album, 'beXtaIsm', was issued on a music cassette in that same year. She supported shows by Björk and by Prodigy. BeXta extended her talents to DJing in 1997 and her first weekly residency was Plastic in Sydney in 1998.
Bexta had several single releases after the release of the EP - 'Skirmish LIVE', this was received well entering the ARIA singles charts in 1999. One album, 'Conversations with Ones and Zeroes' reached #8 on the ARIA independent album charts in 2004. Bexta produces the DJ compilation series, Mixology, beginning in 2000, As of 2010 there were 12 releases in this series.
BeXta has toured extensively in Australia since the late 90's and internationally as well, including the UK, Canada, China, Indonesia, and New Zealand. She was voted Australia's number one female DJ by the general public for several years in the mid 2000s, and one year was ranked number three DJ in Australia. She has also remixed many international dance artists, and Australian artists such as Icehouse, Vanessa Amarossi, Bonni Anderson, and the ACDC track "Thunderstruck".
Bexta is featured in BNE - The Definitive Archive: Brisbane Independent Electronic Music Production 1979-2014, which is a hardcover book and USB music archive published by Trans:Com in September 2014. BeXta is featured in the INTHEMIX Top 100 Australian Dance Tracks of all Time.
SINGLES
Make it Phunkee ["Skirmish Live" EP]
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Bexta
| 22 FEB '99 | #92 |
References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bexta
http://top100singles.blogspot.com.au/
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