DJ Denise cut her teeth in the underground scene of late-90s San Francisco. Her natural talent and energy behind the decks caused a meteoric rise from partygoer to local hero, and before her first year of DJing was out, Denise was playing weekly for crowds of hundreds and thousands, and traveling across the United States and Canada. But the glory days of San Francisco’s large-scale venues and 10,000-head “massives” started dwindling after a few years, and the scene was pushed into smaller, illegitimate venues. Sensing the shift in both venues’ and crowds’ tastes, Denise saw... more