I just had enough of working with other people and I just thought: well, to have complete control, I actually need to get my mind inside these machines and work from inside out. And if I, for one — a total computer Luddite — can decide that I need to get into the way of working with technology, then I'm sure there's 14-year-old girls out there who want to be engineers, and it's just a matter of time.

— Anjali

ANJALI

Once lead singer of the pioneering all-woman punk rock group, the Voodoo Queens, Anjali Bhatia took her fearless DIY attitude into the realm of electronica in the mid-1990s. Transforming her sound with samplers and sequencers, and drawing on a range of influences, from trip-hop to loungecore to Bollywood, Anjali has produced a series of complex and alluring singles and in September of this year, will be releasing her second full-length album, The World of Lady A.

Although born in Chiswick and bought up in Manor Park and Ilford, East London, Anjali feels a closer affinity to Indian culture than British identity. "Indian culture becomes so integral to your life that you canÕt help but feel more Indian than British," she says. "There are also stories that you hear from your parents, of when India was still a part of the British Raj. All that still has an effect on you. So too does being head-butted in the face on your first day at Wanstead High School and being called a Paki."

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