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During weekdays Maressa Surrett is a Web site designer for a Eugene company, but on evenings and weekends she's Jade Bassix - an electronic-dance music artist who has performed in far away places such as Hong Kong.

As the owner of So Broken Recordings, a Eugene-based electronic
dance label, she is trying to attract Pacific Northwest and female
musicians, once regarded as the industry's underrepresented artists, she said.

"Ever since I first started DJ-ing, I knew there was a serious lack of women, but I never let that become an issue or get me down in any way," she said. "Perhaps this was some sort of motivation for me to push myself to success. I hope to be a good role model for other truly talented young women to follow."

Surrett, who grew up in Salem as "one of the guys," said she didn't feel intimated at the absence of female DJs. -MORE-