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JMM 216LP
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Calling Marcelle a DJ doesn't wholly represent what she's doing. (Three) turntables and a mixer is more the medium that she uses to create and share sounds, ideas, and moments. The same goes for her own productions. They don't have a fixed style, as can be heard on all five EPs released by the Munich label Jahmoni since 2016. They are free in attitude and music and cross boundaries between genres. Most tracks are a collision of ideas, a magically gritty, self-aware car crash, as if Muslimgauze grew up in sunny Lisbon with the PrÃncipe crew as opposed to the grim North of England. On her new LP One Place For The First Time, you'll find nine tracks brimming with ideas that ignore stale production norms. Sure, the pulsing drum 'n' bass-esque "Hippies Use Side Door" is weirdly danceable, just like the cackling stomp of "Respect Caged Animals", but can you dance to "Technicians And Their Smoke Machines"? (Answer: You'd certainly enjoy trying). It's almost a jazz song, but like with everything Marcelle does, it's jazz from a different world and has proven to be a dancefloor smash when she's played out the dubplate over recent months. Marcelle's life-long love for far-out dub is clear in "Dub (Dub)" and "Respect My Snack Foods" is in the same "educational" tradition as was the song about how to deal with constipation (olive oil!) from the 2018 Psalm Tree EP (JMM 209EP). "The Mother Of All Messes" (a UK newspaper headline about Brexit) introduces perhaps a more tender side, a comforting nursery rhyme plays while a muffled kick occasionally growls with distortion. "Don't Touch The Table!" This particular sample is taken from Marcelle's legendary Boiler Room performance at 2018's Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda where the MC of the event repeatedly declares that "She Plays Vinyl" and therefore asks "Don't Touch The Table!". It goes without saying that the latter song is full of banging on the table noises. Marcelle is a genuine innovator who remains inherently relevant by not following trends, not focusing on technicalities, having a sense of humor, dissolving obsolete structures, being excited, defying others rules while creating new ones, eschewing #tagline posers and "tasteless A&R wankers", supporting artists that need it, supporting places that need it, supporting people who need it and not giving a fuck for as long as possible.
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JMM 213EP
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"It sounded all right through two walls, so what's the problem?" are the final words of "Two Walls", the leading track of DJ Marcelle's new record. The quote comes from Mark E. Smith (1957-2018). The track opens with another Smith quote: "You're probably right, Marcelle". There are five more versions of "Two Walls": "Dubai Muezzin Dub", partly recorded in the United Emirates in 2018; "Problematic Dub" is pure industrial techno; "Studio Door Dub" celebrates the repetition of The Fall; and the "Emerson, Lake & Palmer Symphony Dub" is both avant-garde and hilarious. BELP provides a wicked abstract noise remix.
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JMM 209EP
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For her third outing on the German label Jahmoni, DJ Marcelle is as inventive and unpredictable as ever. "To Evacuate Is Difficult And Infrequent" is a deranged techno stomper, bristling with crazy, desperate sounds. "To Reveal The Secret" is an abstract dub work-out with an eerie feeling -- Marcelle samples the voice of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. "Walking Around Aimlessly" the longest track on the EP, is just as swinging as it is weird. "To Sing Along" combines heavy bass with an addictive synth melody and is a short, energetic closer for the EP.
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JMM 208EP
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American musician Aaron Spectre turns up the volume with four tracks of jungle punk rock intensity, continuing his mission of uniting cultures at their roots. Four tunes of guitar, relentless "amens", deep bass, and soulful vocals, ready to rumble your space of choice. Also on the menu is a collaboration with fellow ragga jungle-ist FeyDer, rounding out a brilliant EP which inspires and shakes foundations.
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JMM 203EP
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DJ Marcelle releases her first two-track club EP on Munich based label Jahmoni Music. In The Wrong Direction echoes what she does on stage: it's non-mainstream club music, and it's highly functional. Marcelle is on a life-long quest of proving that most music in club culture is quite boring but that's justified as having to be so because of functionality and audience expectation, while she claims that this is not true, it's just a lack of intelligence, courage and creativity on the part of most DJs. Genre-wise, In The Wrong Direction is: NL tribal techno, post-dubstep, broken beats, glitch.
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