Rebekah Teasdale, a British DJ and dance music producer known professionally as Rebekah on pushing boundaries, embracing hardcore techno and fostering a new wave of musical exploration under her mantra GoHardOrGoHardcore.
When did music first meaningfully enter your life?
For as long as I can remember there was always music around me. My mum has an inspiring 7inch collection and she would play her music and we would dance around the living room and enjoy it as I was growing up. Being exposed to everything from The Sex Pistols through to Patti Smith, Duran Duran and through to Dillinger in the 80’s with everything in-between.
In my teens was when I discovered going out clubbing and really wanted to become a DJ, possibly more for egotistical reasons at this time but the music definitely was an escape during my teenage angst years.
What inspired you to start creating your own music?
Working with engineers to create music and just being unhappy with the results of what came out was never truly an expression or extension of what I wanted to say musically which led me to start doing it by myself.
I wanted to be respected and went on the journey of learning as much as I could, spending two years at college on a creative music producer course back in 2007-2009 and then even giving up djing altogether to just make music conceptually and honoured the sound of what came out of me, which in this early period was more deeper and darker techno.