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Evening Standard
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Martin Robinson

Lou Hayter: "A very small percentage of women are producers so this record is a statement"

Lou Hayter has been the coolest woman in London for years now, but she is about to hit Major Tom-in-deep-space levels of frostbite with her new album, Unfamiliar Skin. She’s always been cool but the difference now is that she is in total control.

“I decided to produce it myself, which was a challenge, but it was time,” Hayter says, “It is a male dominated music industry. I’ve worked with a lot of wonderful men who respected me, but also experienced the flip side of that, both in my DJ career and my production career, of being mansplained at, of not having an opinion that was valid.

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