Heavy low-end engineering dance floor maven Maya Jane Coles has been moody since housing the international stage with her 2011 track “What They Say,” a jam sampled by Nicki Minaj and used as inspiration by Katy Perry. As techno alias CAYAM and hip-hop and bass-music moniker Nocturnal Sunshine, Coles ties her tried-and-true thick bass and drums approach with a hooky vocal style that’s dark but bouncy, plangent but pick-me-up. Touring stateside in advance of her fifth album, Night Creature, the British Japanese producer brings her DJ’s ear for house groove to RealMusic’s dedicated ravers at Mala Santa.
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— Christina Garcia