Rachel Auburn

• Name — Rachel Auburn • Born — 1958 07 • Origin — London • Genre — Trance, hard house • Occupation — Disc jockey, record producer, fashion designer • Label — Tidy Trax, React

Auburn was born in Kingston upon Thames in 1958. She has a degree in fashion design from Harrow College. Auburn is known for her "unconventional" and "experimental" fashion designs. She first set up a stall in Kensington Market in 1982, and went on to be a significant presence as both a designer and a disc jockey in London's clubland. She first met Leigh Bowery at the market, and together they went on to open a stall together called 'Spend Spend Spend' and were the first to showcase the 1980s London clubland fashion scene in New York and Tokyo organised by Susanne Bartsch. Auburn has work in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, and was featured in the 2013 exhibition, Club to Catwalk, at the Victoria and Albert museum. Along with Paul Masterson, Auburn formed the Candy Girls duo. Their single "Wham Bam", with Sweet Pussy Pauline, peaked at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart in 1996. Auburn was in the Tidy Girls, a Tidy Trax hard house collaboration with Lisa Lashes, Anne Savage, and Lisa Pin-Up. The Tidy Girls eponymous release achieved success in the UK official singles chart in 1999. In 2015 Auburn mixed the retrospective best-of compilation Reactivate 91-01 for the React record label. It received positive critical reception, with one reviewer stating that, for the label React, it was "by far their best compilation".

Rachel Auburn albums • Title — Artist — Year — Peak UK Comp • Reactivate '91 – '01 — Various, mixed by Rachel Auburn — 2015

Rachel Auburn singles • Title — Artist — Year — Peak UK Singles — Peak UK Dance • "Fee Fi Fo Fum" — Candy Girls — 1995 — 23 — 1 • "Wham Bam" — Candy Girls featuring Sweet Pussy Pauline — 1996 — 20 — 5 • "I Want Candy" — Candy Girls — 1996 — 30 — 12 • "Machine Man" — Rachel Auburn — 1997 — 38 • Tidy Girls EP — Rachel Auburn/Lisa Lashes — 1999 — 96 — 31 • "Coming On Strong/Screwdriver" — Signum/Rachel Auburn — 2006 — 25