Beatportal’s Artist of the Month: DJ Minx

Marcus Barnes speaks to Detroit’s queen of house music DJ Minx — a champion of women’s empowerment in the dance music scene — to learn more about her ancestral history, the first time she mixed records, the origins of her Woman On Wax imprint, and beyond.

It’s interesting to hear DJ Minx describe the path that was forged by her predecessors while also considering the fact that she has also paved the way for those who’ve come after her. Contending with the male-dominated culture of the era she came up in was no mean feat. The stories of women being ridiculed, abused, intimidated and shunned by men during that period, and even more recently, are widely known, and Minx’s story was no different in many ways. She takes me back to the moment she first connected with the music, after a friend invited her to the legendary Music Institute, which happened to be three blocks away from where Minx lived at the time. Derrick May was playing at the club that first night, spinning in his typically wild manner with a couple of hundred people also going wild. Minx kept going back after that first experience and eventually managed to get into the booth to see what Derrick was doing. On one occasion, he asked her what she was doing, and she told him,” I can do that.” Not long after that, at another party, he called her out asking if she could DJ yet, to which she told him, “No.” So Derrick told her not to come back until she could.

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