PROFILE: Windsor's Heidi joins hosting staff on BBC Radio 1

She may be known internationally as the in-demand electronic DJ who answers simply to Heidi, but this globe-trotting vinyl spinning superstar is Windsor's very own Heidi Vanden Amstel.

Heidi is still remembered by many in the local music scene as one of the Loop's best bartenders from "back in the day" but today she is known for just about anything but.

Always a music fan, a year long sabbatical to England back in 1997 exposed her to a whole new electronic underground, expanding the love created by so many of her friends back home in Windsor. A permanent relocation in 2000 only cemented her new musical passion and started a ride that is still going on to this day.

In 2003, she was part of the team that opened the critically acclaimed vinyl music shop Phonica Records in London and soon she would not only be selling vinyl to some of the world's greatest DJs but would be spinning alongside them. A meeting with German duo M.A.N.D.Y. (Patrick Bodmer and Phillip Jung) lead to some gigs in Berlin and since then, she hasn't looked back.

A residency at perhaps the world's most well known DJ hotspot, Ibiza, not to mention countless regular gigs in Berlin (The Panorama Bar and The Watergate Club), Frankfurt (The Monza Club) and London (Fabric), as well as countless more shows across the United States, France, Spain, Italy, Australia and even here in Windsor at The Boom Boom Room. If there's a club that needs a groove in this world, Heidi's probably been there or is booked to do so. A member of the German-based electronic stable Get Physical, she released her first single, "Vejer" with partner Riton, in 2006, as well as the DJ Mix CD, Monza Club Ibiza Vol. 1, also on the Get Physical label. She's teaming back up with Riton again to release a new single this year for Get Physical's Five Year Anniversary compilation, a track entitled "To The Gum".

Her most recent endeavour is another feather in her cap and indeed one we can all be proud of. She's recently joined the hosting team for BBC Radio 1's electronic DJ show, In New DJs We Trust, heard each Friday in the UK and on-line around the world. The show has a rotating cast of hosts, with Heidi doing the fourth Friday of each month. The entire show is overseen by legendary DJ Pete Tong.

You can hear Heidi's next performance this week and listen on Friday morning (Thursday night after the bar!) at 2am to 4am (or available to listen on-line for the following 7 days) at the show's website. This week she's joined by guest DJ, Andrew Weatherall of the UK (who, oddly enough, is from Windsor, England), who got his start working alongside Paul Oakenfold, and has worked on remixes with such bands as Bjork, Beth Orton, Primal Scream, My Bloody Valentine and others.

This once again shows the diversity of Windsor's reach into the world of music - we're not just limited to indie rock or heavy metal or folk music. Music is a universal language with many shapes and sizes (or chords and beeps) and Windsor is making an impact everywhere.