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By ear and by feel, Mel Webb transforms sound into the electronic music phenomenon known as Whipd Beats. Born in India, a fourth-generation by-product of the British Raj, Mel is the creator of an astonishing musical blend of nearly every imaginable genre, melody, beat, and style, rolled into an electronic sound of near-perfect balance and quality. Her first musical experiences date back to her earliest years, listening to the jazz playing 24/7 in her house, absorbing its joy and rhythms into her very being. By the age of 9, she was already incredibly particular about the quality of sound, spending hours messing around with her father’s Akai equalizer. The informal, untrained fooling-around would one day develop into a passion for creating music that has become the essence of Whipd Beats. With little formal education in music, other than studying classical piano from the age of 7 to 13, Mel melds her love of jazz with a host of other genres that she loves and is influenced by,