SSK (USA)

SSK real name, Jacquelyn R. Horn was introduced to the US electronica scene during the summer of 1994. She was pulled directly off of the street, and into a warehouse where she was turned onto house music, epic trance, & techno. After a quick taste of the sub counter-culture, she was hooked!

It was during 1996 whilst travelling to the many events and parties across America, that SSK made her discovery of Goa Trance & Psy Trance.

A year later she took a job at a local coffee shop in Arlington, Texas called Zombies. It was here that Jacquelyn learnt how to manage sound for live-bands and DJs by a couple of the men from Texas's Raid5. From there she met the majority of North Texas's DJs and promoters.

She was then taken on board with 'Moonkids', a small DJ collective handling mostly jungle and ambient. She was responsible mainly for foot and street level promotion at the time, and in the midst, met the boys of Astral Tribe. Her connection with Texas Psy trance is widely responsible for who she is today.

1998 saw Jacquelyn promoting for Astral Tribe's full-moon parties and contributing in other ways. It wasn't until fall of 1999 that she began to mix independently.

She began on turntables, mixing deep-house, epic & hard trance (while collecting psy) and played her first small party 3 weeks after laying her first record down.

In 1999, she formed T.A.T. with DJ Machine (Stony Morin/aka DJ Kush) and, then she was named 'Smitten Space kitten' hence the name SSK.

T.A.T. was a small collective of Psy, Breaks, House, and, electro DJs all of whom were dedicative to all things true school.

After many years struggling to keep newcomers interested in naturalistic-gatherings, while 'massives' continued to grow and dominate the local scene, She finally pulled the plug on T.A.T. in January of 2008.

While building up her 'no-budget productions', SSK evolved to mixing Scando, Psy-Tech, Minimal Psy, and Progressive Psy. With a couple years on a hermits retreat, she has gone digital, re-emerging as a Full On Psy & Progressive-psy DJ.

Jacquelyn is also the owner of a free-promotional site for new or underestimated acts, www.uniquefreaquerecords.com (soon to become www.uniquefreaque.org) -which she has been operating in her spare time since 2006. She continues to hold onto the ideal set forth by the people that brought her into this scene, and has continued (though less often) to host FREE outdoor gatherings throughout the year... and has no intentions in ceasing from doing so.

The sound of SSK is an audio fusion of full on killer energy, with an explosion of tough underground beats, enchanting melodies that simply lead you into a musical journey of, SSK.