Career
Under her real name, she mostly composes and plays house music, while her alias Nocturnal Sunshine is dedicated to dubstep. She also takes part in an electronic dub duo called She Is Danger with Lena Cullen. Maya declares she started to have a passion for music in early teens and decided to learn how to produce music using the Cubase software program when she was fifteen.
She first produced hip-hop and trip hop.
A few years later, she released her first two records on Dogmatik Records, in 2008 and 2009, which were more house music based. Having already remixed acts such as Massive Attack and Gorillaz with her duo She Is Danger, Maya gained her breakthrough exposure in 2010, when she released a four-track European Parliament on Franck Roger"s label, Real Tone Records.
She was then named by DJ Magazine as one of the best newcomers that year, as her track "What They Say", taken from the eponymous European Parliament, was also one of the most playlisted by DJs on Resident Advisor. In 2011, she featured on many specialised magazines" covers like Mixmag"s, and her growing fame opened new doors, such as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s, which invited her to record an Essential Mix of her own which was later nominated for Essential Mix of the Year 2011.
Later on that year, she was voted ‘Best Newcomer 2011′ at the Ibiza DJ Awards 2011 and came ninth place in Resident Advisor"s annual DJ ranking.
Later in the year, Maya Jane Coles was invited to record a mix for the DJ Kicks collection. The volume she has produced was released in April, and obtained a favourable reception from specialised media. In November, Rolling Stone places Maya Jane Coles at the fifteenth rank of its world"s 25 most influential DJs list.
Maya was later invited back to record a second British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 1 Essential Mix in 2013.
Maya"s début album was on her own I/Department of Administration and Management/Master of Engineering label and Kobalt Label Services internationally in summer 2013. lieutenant featured guest appearances from artists such as,,, Alpines, and
Maya also produced Fabric 75 (released April 2014), the 75th edition of London nightclub Fabric"s monthly compilation album. In late-2014, the title track of Coles" 2010 European Parliament What They Say gained a re-surge in popularity after it was sampled in the Nicki Minaj song "Truffle Butter", a collaborative track with Drake and Lil Wayne from her album The Pinkprint.
