DJ/producer Maya Bouldry-Morrison has been lauded for her modern yet classic approach to house. We sat down with Octo Octa to talk studio secrets, DJ philosophy and the state of house music in 2023 ...

Back-to-back DJ sets are a strange quirk of dance music. Taken on face value, they are a form of collaboration, with two artists sharing a stage in front of a single crowd. But in reality, taking ...

Any back-to-back set featuring DJs with opposing styles could quickly go south. Add to the delicate dance that your partner is your significant other, and you are flirting with disaster. Miraculously, ...

Down Time is a Jezebel series in which we ask our favorite artists and authors what art, books, and activities they’re turning to in this moment of isolation and uncertainty. DJ and producer Maya ...

The house music power couple discusses the spiritual messaging within their contribution to the 'fabric presents' series. There’s a river near Octo Octa (real name Maya Bouldry-Morrison) and Eris Drew ...

This past Saturday, Brooklyn producer Octo Octa performed an afternoon, pool-side DJ set at upstate New York festival Sustain-Release. Aside from the pastoral setting, above which floated smoke-filled ...

Next week musical partners Octo Octa and Eris Drew will deliver an all-vinyl fabric presents mix, recorded during quarantine from the idyllic locale of their cabin in the forest of New Hampshire. The ...

In the late autumn of 2015, Maya Bouldry-Morrison, the producer known as Octo Octa, stepped out from the protective anonymity of the DJ booth to claim her identity as a transgender woman. It was a ...

Yet seeing Eris Drew and Maya Bouldry-Morrison (AKA Octo Octa) take to a pair of Technics together, pumping their distinctive infusions of old skool house, electro, breaks, trance, prog and much more, ...