Jennifer Cardini

Parisian Jennifer Cardini balances out the cool, dandyish sophistication of her colleagues at Kompakt Booking with an unabashed will to rave. Holding court at Paris' Rex Club, Cardini cuts up classic Plastikman and next month's micro sounds with such complexity that you'd swear there were three decks involved, while her head-banging command brings a butch energy that's sorely lacking in techno. -Philip Sherburne