Kate Butler began thinking seriously about women and music production, not in some library or archive, but as a DJ. Immersed in the electronic music scene of the 1990s playing drum and bass nights as dj softskills in long-defunct Dublin venues like The Funnel and Switch, she returned behind the decks in 2017 after having children and noticed a new wave of collectives, workshops, and labels popping up to support women and other underrepresented people in music technology.. While excited by the energy of grassroots groups like the Gash Collective, Butler, a writer as well as a DJ, was also…

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