{{Short description|Australian DJ}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=November 2016}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = BeXta | image = | image_size = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Rebecca Elizabeth Poulsen | alias = | birth_date = <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year unless the exact date is already WIDELY published, as per WP:DOB --> | birth_place = | origin = Brisbane, Queensland, Australia | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date 1st) --> | death_place = | genre = Trance | occupation = DJ, producer | instrument = Keyboards, sampler | years_active = 1992–present | label = Mixology Digital | associated_acts = | website = {{URL|bexta.com/}} }}
'''BeXta''' is the performance name of '''Rebecca Elizabeth Poulsen''', a trance and hard dance, DJ and producer. She studied classical music and music technology before turning to electronic dance music from 1992. BeXta established her own label, Mixology Digital, in 2000.
== Biography ==
Rebecca Elizabeth Poulsen studied at Queensland Conservatorium of Music for a Bachelor of Sonology.<ref name="Curtis">{{cite web | url = http://inthemix.junkee.com/bexta-more-vip-than-ever/9235 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161112094951/http://inthemix.junkee.com/bexta-more-vip-than-ever/9235 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 12 November 2016 | title = Bexta: More VIP than Ever | last = Curtis | first = Joann | work = In the Mix | publisher = Junkee Media | date = 9 April 2008 | accessdate = 12 November 2016 }}</ref><ref name="APRA Poulsen">{{cite web | url = http://apraamcos.com.au/search?searchtype=works&keywords=BASS%20DRUM%20SOLDIER | title = Search for Bass Drum Soldier | publisher = Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) | Australasian Mechanical Copyright Owners Society (AMCOS) | accessdate = 14 November 2016 }}</ref> She started creating her own music using keyboards and computers in 1992 and started performing live as BeXta in 1993.<ref name="Curtis"/><ref name="Blunt"/> BeXta extended her talents to DJing in 1997 and her first weekly residency was Plastic in Sydney in 1998.
In 1995 she released her first single, "Lunar Tango", on an independent label in Melbourne.<ref name="Blunt">{{cite web | url = http://inthemix.junkee.com/bexta-back-in-action/1691 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161112092523/http://inthemix.junkee.com/bexta-back-in-action/1691 | url-status = dead | archive-date = 12 November 2016 | title = BeXta: Back in action | last = Blunt | first = Nikki | work = In the Mix | publisher = Junkee Media | date = 4 June 2003 | accessdate = 12 November 2016 }}</ref> She supported shows by Björk and by Prodigy.<ref name="Blunt"/> Her debut album, ''beXtaIsm'', was issued on a music cassette in that same year. Bexta has several single releases currently, after the release of the EP - Skirmish LIVE, this was received well entering the ARIA singles charts in 1999. One album, Conversations with ones and zeroes has reached number 8 on the ARIA independent album charts in 2004.
Bexta produces the DJ compilation series, Mixology, beginning in 2000, As of 2010 there were 12 releases in this series.
BeXta has toured extensively in Australia since the late 1990s and internationally as well, including the UK, Canada, China, Indonesia, and New Zealand. She was voted Australia's number one female dj by the general public for several years in the mid-2000s, and one year was ranked number 3 DJ in Australia. She has also remixed many international dance artists, and Australian artists such as Icehouse, Vanessa Amarossi, Bonni Anderson, and the ACDC track "Thunderstruck".
Bexta is featured in "BNE - The Definitive Archive: Brisbane Independent Electronic Music Production 1979-2014", which is a hardcover book and USB music archive published by Trans:Com in September 2014.<ref name=bne>{{cite book|last=Remmer|first=Dennis|title=BNE - The Definitive Archive: Brisbane Independent Electronic Music Production 1979-2014|year=2014|publisher=Transmission Communications|isbn=978-0-646-92150-1|pages=56}}</ref><ref>Project BNE: [http://projectbne.com/ Brisbane Independent Electronic Music Production 1979-2014]</ref>
BeXta is featured in the INTHEMIX Top 100 Australian Dance Tracks of all Time<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.inthemix.com.au/features/60357/The_100_Greatest_Australian_Dance_Tracks_Of_All_Time|title = A Farewell from inthemix: Thanks for All the Memories|date = 31 October 2018}}</ref>
==Discography== ===Albums=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" |+ List of albums, with selected details ! Title ! Details |- ! scope="row" | ''beXtaism'' | * Released: 1995 * Format: CD * Label: beXtaism |- ! scope="row" | ''C0nversat10ns W1th 0nes & Zer0es'' | * Released: 2004 * Format: CD * Label: KMA Records (KMA001) |}
===Charting extended plays=== {| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" border="1" |+ List of EPs, with Australian chart positions ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:12em;" | Title ! scope="col" rowspan="2" style="width:16em;" | Album details ! scope="col" colspan="1" | Peak chart<br />positions |- ! scope="col" style="text-align:center;" | AUS<br /><ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Ryan|first=Gavin|title=Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010|year=2011|publisher=Moonlight Publishing|location=Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia|edition=pdf|pages=29}}</ref> |- ! scope="row" | ''Skimmish'' | * Released: February 1999 * Format: CD, LP * Label: Dance Pool (493086.2) | align="center" | 92 |}
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.bexta.com/ bexta.com] (Official site) * [https://music.apple.com/au/artist/bexta/98507911] (BeXta on iTunes) * [http://www.trackitdown.net/search/keyword?q=bexta]{{Dead link|date=July 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Tunes of Trackitdown.net) * [http://www.podomatic.com/bexta] (Podomatic Podcast) * [http://www.discogs.com/artist/beXta BeXta] at Discogs * [https://soundcloud.com/bexta-mixologydigital-com] on (BeXta on SoundCloud)
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