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Forest Green spins Techno, Electro, Minimal, Micro, House, IDM and various derivatives of all other electronic dance music. She’s been a music collecting addict for over 21 years. She's been DJing professionally since 1996.

Forest is a featured DJ in the popular indie film GROOVE. Groove was accepted to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival in 2000, and was the first film bought that year by Sony Picture Classics. Groove is an independent feature film based on one night in the San Francisco underground dance scene back in the early 1990s.

Forest grew up studying and performing music starting with choir, and piano lessons around the age of 8, then moving into private voice lessons, classical training and musical theater while continuing choir. Come time for college Forest auditioned and was accepted as a Voice Major to Cal State U. Northridge and San Francisco State U. She went on to continue her studies in classical, opera, and jazz at Cal State Northridge for four intense years until she decided to transfer to SFSU and go in a different direction. Completing her B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from San Francisco State in 1995 with an emphasis in music, digital arts, video, multi-media, and theater.

Forest Green has played at many internationally recognized clubs and venues as well as at most of the recognized clubs in San Francisco. Her talents have been observed and heard in Berlin, Prague, Hamburg, Toronto, Amsterdam, Vienna, Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Columbus, Denver, Portland, El Paso, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, Calgary, Pittsburgh, Memphis, Albuquerque, Madison, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose and for the past four years in a row in Miami, Florida for the Winter Music Conference. Forest Green has also played several live sets as well as been interviewed on local radio shows. In addition, she has performed several times on www.livedjs.com and www.thumpradio.com, both which are online radio communities. She also hosted a 2 year, bi-weekly webcast on Groovetech SF from 2000 to 2002, and a year long, weekly webcast called Abstract Communications Network on Technostate from 1998 to 1999.

Forest has produced and co-produced several weeklies, monthlies, and one off events. Some of her event production credits include producer of Concept One on April 2nd co-produced with CFCA and Teknotika SF, producer of Minimal Monday with Organized Chaos (a minimal techno weekly at The Hush Hush Lounge from 2001 to 2003), residencies, production and promotion with Teknotika SF, Hugger Mugger, Tech-On, Tetractys, Sonic Manipulations, Scatter, Sister USA, Friends and Family, Predawn, and Cloud Factory and guest performances, production and promotion work with Trouble, and Blasthaus.

In the beginning of 2004 Forest began working on Gobi Records and Gobi Productions, with her wickedly talented Gobi partner Mochipet (Tigerbeat 6, BPitch Control, Component and Daly City/Mochi Records). Be sure to keep an eye out for releases on Gobi Records.

Forest is very excited to finally be working on her own electronic music production under the name Cute Things with Fangs.

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