Sitting in the back room of a small 200 capacity brewery pub, located within the small inner-city walls of Chester, Imogen prepares for her Mango Club debut before moving onto Berlin to play at Berghain the following afternoon. Mango Club is a small but almost always sold out club night located in Chester whose aim is to bring new and exciting talent to the city, with headliners such as Mall Grab, Loods, Ross From Friends, Sally C and many more now with Imogen. A 20-year-old raver and DJ who has played alongside headliners such as Nina Kraviz, Daniel Avery, Jeff Mills & Paula Temple. Sitting with her, I ask what made her want to play for the Mango Club in which she replies: "I'm keen to expose new musical influences to such a small city. The scene up here isn't like London, and I'm grateful to be able to introduce something new to those coming." You can tell that she enjoys the smaller town gigs and is humbled to knowing the crowd of 200 people have come to see her headline. Before she played, you could already tell Imogen would be another name to The Mango Club's roster that will be mentioned in 2-5 years when someone asks: "What!? Imogen's played in Chester!?".

As we discuss her musical career progression, she mentions how she hopes to use her position to be vocal about her thoughts and opinions, and whilst others have advised her not to be political, she would hate to waste her opportunity to have such a public platform and not do anything with it other than post meaningless Instagram selfies. On the 20th of September, you can catch her playing at Extinction Rebellions Rebel Rave event alongside acts like Loefh and Orbital. I ask her where does she see herself within the current climate of contemporary British rave culture as she exclaims: "We're in such a difficult time in this world. It's hard to look at where my career will be in 20 or so years because the world is expected to change so drastically. I want to take a stand in leading a more active role using my influence to not only to help people discover new music but also to raise awareness in the likes of climate change." She also goe's onto say that she hopes her shows offer escapism to the global crises such as climate change and political unrest if only for a couple of hours. She predicts that the climate of contemporary club culture will evolve from "business techno" and "Instagram DJ's" into a more raw protest style of raving. Imogen is clearly driven to play an active role in developing a meaningful career, not just through her music but her political influence as well. She expects her political drive will be the key to some of her best work.

We move onto a lighter area of discussion where I go on to ask how she is enjoying the touring lifestyle and who has influenced her to get where she is now. She says: "It's common in the beginning of your music career to be worried over things like: 'What will people think if I sign to this label?' or 'How will people react if I take this direction?' I think everyone has that self- awareness over them, wether it's conscious or not. But I'm happy to have gotten past that and I'm now back into making music that I want to make and just playing tunes that I like." Imogens sets are not only filled with younger raving fans but are also often visited by family members. I mention that I saw her at her Printworks debut back in November 2018, to which she responded: "Aww my Grandad came to that one." She goes onto say that her mum, an oldskool raver who greatly influenced her early taste in music growing up, playing the likes of The Prodigy and Chase & Status in the car, also goes onto see her lot of her sets. Happily taking influences and blending together heavily saturated techno kicks with fast-paced jungle breaks and housey grooves, typically staying above 130bpm, Imogen has picked what she enjoys from across multiple genres to create a new blend of unpredictable play styles. Imogens performance is more than just the music she plays deconstructing her influences of hammering techno, and the captivating energy of electro in order to create a vast atmosphere to lose yourself in for the time that she plays. I ask her where does like to find her music in which she replies: "I love to spend hours on Bandcamp, just going through what other fans who have similar tastes are buying. I often find profiles friends from home and see what they're listening to." I go on to ask if she has any music released on the site where she says to check out her EP 'flesh' released on the Label: Earwiggle. She is also currently working on her next secret project with Fabric.

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