Michele Sainte

Musically, Sainte comes from a 1970s Electro, Electronic, New Wave, and Punk background.

Her alma maters are Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and Upsala College.

Sainte is a former breakbeat hardcore and techno DJ[9] that is also "widely regarded as one of the States' premiere female drumandbass DJs" according to Dieselboy.[10][11] She is known for mixing the techstep subgenre of drum and bass.[12][13]

She has DJed throughout North America at clubs and raves as a breakbeat and techno DJ on a regular basis beginning in 1990, dedicating herself exclusively to the Drum&Bass genre by 1995[14][15][16][17][18] and performing alongside artists such as 808 State,[19] Joey Beltram,[20] Meat Beat Manifesto.[21]

She became a frequent guest DJ at music venues including City Gardens[22] in Trenton, New Jersey, Guernica[23][24][25] (formerly Save the Robots) in Manhattan, The Shelter (New York City), and The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Also, she was asked to be a resident DJ at Club Zadar in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in January 1990, introducing techno to the new wave venue. In addition, she became a resident DJ at several venues in Philadelphia including Evolution[26] and Skyline.[27] She is considered one of the first female techno DJs from North America and has been cited as "the original East Coast female drum and bass DJ".[28]

Sainte has acknowledged the support of DJ Lenny Dee.[29] Dieselboy has also been known to support her.[30] She is also known as Rhys Fulber’s muse since meeting her in the “early nineties” when she worked as a Techno DJ. She inspired him to eventually produce Techno and use his German name as opposed to an alias.[31]

Sainte became licensed by the FCC in 1986, whilst still a high school student.[32] She has worked at WFMU (named the “best radio station in the nation” by Rolling Stone magazine from 1991 through 1994[33]) and WPRB at Princeton University.[34][35][36] In 1995, she created and DJed on a program with live mixing at WPRB that she called Bassquake. Bassquake aired every Friday for five years. It was the United States's first drum and bass/jungle program to air on a commercial FM radio station.[37][38][39][40]

Sainte is a vegan, regularly advocating for veganism on her social media. She is also Wiccan, having trained in person with Zsuzsanna Budapest.[41]