Style: Progressive House

Angela’s passion for music started when she was 4 years old. While watching Sesame Street one day, she yelled, “Mommy, I wanna play THAT!” and she pointed to a child playing the Violin. Not more than 6 months later, Angela embarked down a path that would lead to her love for music.

Growing up, Angela listened to everything from Bach and Motzart, to Talking Heads and Tom Petty, Boys II Men and En Vogue, Green Day and Beck, and everything else inbetween. It wasn’t until she was a Junior in High School where she discovered her love for electronic music. While working at Express at Southdale, she heard Madison Avenue, “Don’t Call me Baby” playing overhead. From there, Angela branched out and began listening to House, Trance, Progressive, Drum and Bass, Techno, and anything else she could download from Napster.

After attending the Armin Van Buuren concert at The Quest in 2005 and after receiving vinyl from a friend for Christmas, Angela decided she wanted to take her turn at hitting the decks. She borrowed turntables from a friend and attempted to beatmatch. With over 16 years of experience playing the violin, it didn’t take long for Angela to get the concept. Her parents who have always understood Angela’s passion for music decided to support their daughters new hobby and Angela received her gear for Christmas in 2006. With help from her friends, she continues to work on her skills and hopes to one day be good enough to play out.

Angela’s role with Nascent Numen came around due to her compassionate nature. It started with her constant posts, emails, text messages, and word of mouth advertisement for any and all of her friends when they had gigs and events. Then in the beginning of 2007, Sean Merrell (co-founder of Nascent Numen) entered Angela’s life. Wanting to see her boyfriend and Nascent Numen succeed, she started to throw out ideas, concepts, and suggestions to help the crew. Whether it was giving input, painting a sign, advertising, or developing decoration ideas, Angela continued to assist when needed, flyer when necessary, and probably annoy the crap out of the NN crew. Angela’s dedication, ideas, and persistence (and at least now we can tell her to shut up!) landed her a role with Nascent Numen in December 2007. Angela’s goal is to use her ideas, concepts, organizational skills, and “annoyance” to see Nascent Numen succeed and become a well-known group in the Twin Cities