Dygas' life story, all 26 years, is the kind of biog any DJ would die for; a musical CV that reads like a who's who of New York clubland interwoven with a tale as inspiring as it is unusual. Thankfully her music matches up- and it's some package.

Margaret Dygas ( full name Malgorzata Dygasiewicz-imagine fitting that on a flyer ) was born in Gdinia in Poland, at a time when the iron curtain was a grim reality and the Cold War was very much on.

In a country often under the shadow of martial law and where luxury goods really were a luxury, even Margaret's first Walkman was a rare and prized possession, more than can ever be imagined in this disposable society. Hard times, but as with so many, the inspiration and a determination to succeed came out of adversity and flourished with a change of scene.

Musically, Margaret's story begins with her family's escape to the West at the age of eleven. After a succession of refugee camps in Germany, her family eventually moved stateside, initially to San Jose in California. Which in the late eighties meant old school hip-hop, breakdancing (she's a dab hand at that too) and a culture unlike anything Margaret had ever seen before.

But if she thought that was mad......then there was New York. Margaret took her first bite of the Big Apple in 1993 when she was accepted into the renowned Fashion Institute Of Technology, began working as a make-up artist - and began clubbing in a big way.

As her college friends introduced her to underground house music and to the venues that are now legendary milestones in the development of an entire culture, Margaret was sold on DJing- this was what she was born to do.

So it became Twilo, Palladium, The Tunnel, Sound Factory on rotation, an almost obscene amount of waking hours spent in clubs to the sounds of Tenaglia, Vasquez et al, hours spent watching and learning.

Nowadays you'd call her a trainspotter but you can't knock enthusiasm and listening to Dygas play is testament enough to the most thorough of apprenticeships although too long spent standing round DJ booths had a disastrous effect on her dancing.

Margaret's next seminal dance experience came on this side of the pond, at the first homelands festival. Over in England on a fashion shoot (in the middle of a dance festival, no less) Margaret was blown away by the sheer energy and enormity of the British dance scene - and the opportunities it seemed to offer. Just couldn't get her head around it.

Which may explain how she ended up separated from the rest of her crew ( who promptly buggered off ) and found herself in the middle of a field at 6am, a long way from home and alone save for a large suitcase full of clothes that weren't hers. Welcome to the world of the festival.

Back in New York, eventually, Margaret started DJing at a club called Fload ("52nd and 8" apparently), and later other clubs such as Magnum, 357, Life, and Centro-Fly, playing sets of up to five hours of deep twisted house in the grand old tradition of New York house clubs but now with a definite plan to head to Britain and to London, a move she made shortly after in the Summer of '99.

Her first job here was in charge of the door at home London but now armed with a pair of decks in was only a matter of time before she swapped the door for the dancefloor and a slot playing on the same bill as Carl Cox.

Whether it was a success or not can be judged from the fact that she's been gigging almost constantly ever since with bookings through from Singapore to Southend and a place on the bill of homelands 2001- where, undeterred by the trauma of her first visit she played alongside her hero Tenaglia. But only on condition of a guaranteed lift home.

And home is now very much London town. Dygas sightings have included Prologue at the The Cross, alongside Cass and Anthony Pappa, The Gallery, Melonfunk at renowned nighterie Herbal and also a couple of sets at Musik magazine's celebrated Music:Response nights at AKA.

Outside of London clubland (and she's one of those girls who really doesn't need to get out more), Margaret has a regular slot on internet radio station World Wide FM, has performed a two hour live mix on Millenium Generation for Groovetech.com and an hour long mix on Phatplastic - which also gave the World a chance to sample Margaret's unique polyglot accent: part Pole, part native New Yoiker and part Cockney - vowels all over the place but blessed with the same high spirits that pervade her playing style.

And when she lets her music do the talking, she's still all over the place - her travels have taken her back to her native Poland (where she spent New Years Eve 2001), Israel (the stunning Octopus in Tel Aviv) and numerous events including trips to Finland and Yugoslavia.

Which is apt because although Margaret's rise has been a meteoric one, it's a rise rooted in the strongest of global club traditions. Hers is a sound born in New York, honed in London and now taking on the World. Coming to a club near you. Or maybe a field.