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Premier épisode de mon projet de série de podcast documentaire “Et toi, c’est comment ta vie de DJ?”.

Ce projet a pour objectif de réfléchir sur notre scène, et de parler de la vie des artistes de musiques électroniques sous le prisme de la santé mentale. Entre janvier et juin 2024 je me suis donc entretenue avec des artistes mais aussi des expert•es (professionnelle de santé, journaliste, activiste etc) pour évoquer les différents enjeux auxquels peuvent être confronté•es les artistes de musiques électroniques. 

Toutes les interviews ont été enregistrées dans le studio de la Gaité Lyrique que je remercie chaleureusement pour leur accueil en résidence. 

Il y aura 4 épisodes thématiques en tout. Voici donc le premier qui aborde la question du métier passion! 

Un grand merci à mes invité•es sur ce premier épisode de m'avoir livré leur précieux témoignage et expertise : 

abs8lute 
Emma Barron, psychiatre et cofondatrice de l’INSAART  
Julien Jaubert, aka Shkyd, cofondateur du collectif CURA  
A strange wedding 
Keut 
Mars O10c 

Mixage son et mastering : Timothée Lesven
Artwork : Pierre croco 
Ecriture, montage, réalisation : Emma Feldhendler 

Merci aussi à Alessandra pour ses précieux conseils !

J’espère que le projet vous plaira ! 

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For the non French speakers, I’m launching a documentary podcast project in French to reflect on our electronic music scene, and talk about DJs life and mental health. There will be 4 episodes, each one dealing with a specific thematic and featuring health practitioners, artists, and other experts. 



Et toi, c'est comment ta vie de DJ ? - Episode 1 : Le métier-passion

On June 27, 2025, a long-dormant signal reactivates from Hamburg's hidden places: Helena Hauff and F#X return as Black Sites with R4 on Tresor Records—their first full-length album and the first release under the moniker since 2014. Like a hieroglyphic recently discovered and translated, R4 feels more like a long-awaited resumption than a comeback.

Recorded to tape with minimal editing or post-production the record is a classic example of the symbiotic relationship that can come from the interaction of human and machine. This punk ethos isn't invoked through distortion alone, but through method; in the album's breaking from the received wisdom of hardness tethered to speed as most of the tougher pieces are lower BPM and vice versa (with one notable exception in the mind-melting stomp of BLOKK).

Across ten tracks, Black Sites traverse a landscape where genre dissolves into intention. It migrates through electro's danceability, acid house's corrosion, and into the liminal realm of machine funk—a genre coined by Andrew Weatherall, which sounds like the results of technology dreaming of soul where the emphasis is on live execution, on immediacy over perfection—a sound forged in the act of creating, not polishing.

In a 2013 interview, around the time of the first Black Sites EP, Hauff was quoted as saying that she wants "things to fit together properly, but on another level, I really want them to make sense together." That principle animates R4: The album's form reveals itself in time, with each movement echoing and amplifying the others to create a synergistic whole.

From the opening crawl of C4 (a name that like the music foreshadows the explosions to come) to the end-of-the-night bliss of MOTHERJAM via the intense peaks of BLOKK, 707, and classic acid track 3D it's clear that R4 is a work made with serious intent; a refutation of a world where streaming has made the two-minute single the dominant musical form again. R4 demands immersion, not just attention. It is not a collection of tracks, but a singular, recursive experience: a mirror in which sound and listener repeatedly rediscover one another.

BANDCAMP

Black Sites - 3D

Records & Vibes

A record about letting go, finding rhythm in uncertainty, and leaning into change. On Twin Lines, Berlin-based artist Josef Gaard drifts between trance and techno, offering three introspective cuts that balance dreamy elevation with anchored, rhythmic pull. Soon to be released via his Disgården imprint.

Find the full read here: https://www.minimalcollective.digital/editorial/premiere-josef-gaard---kallilt-lakhunud

Twin Lines will be out on September 5th, 2025. Pre-order a copy via https://josefgaard.bandcamp.com/album/twin-lines

Premiere: Josef Gaard - Kallilt Lahkunud [DIS002]

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// NEURAL STRIKE PROTOCOL \\ {4º NIVEL} // DEFCON_0.7::N E U R A L J A M \\
* La red de guerra se satura. La señal mental se interfiere. Las máquinas disparan al azar. Confusión total.


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// NEURAL STRIKE PROTOCOL \\ {4th LEVEL} // DEFCON_0.7::N E U R A L J A M \\
* The warnet is saturated. The mental signal is jammed. The machines fire randomly. Total confusion.


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Buy Track: https://suvanbreaks.bandcamp.com/track/4-defcon-07n-e-u-r-a-l-j-a-m-original-mix

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NEURAL STRIKE PROTOCOL (EP)

DEFCON_0.7N E U R A L J A M (ORIGINAL MIX)

4. DEFCON_0.7N E U R A L J A M (ORIGINAL MIX)

We're happy to present Budapest-based Börder Cöntröl on ROOVE with a focused 4-track EP: groovy drums, looping synths, just functional tools for heads-down floors.
Stream, support, follow.

Follow: @border_control
Mastered by @jackstripmusic

Support: https://roove.bandcamp.com/album/bo-rder-co-ntro-l-honda-4-drifting-ep

Börder Cöntröl - ÖPAL [RV017]

My very first project is here ! "Euphoria EP", 4 tracks available in free download. I tried my best to shape curious and interesting textures. Don't hesitate to share it if you like it, don't forget to credit, thank you all for the support.

Mastering : @EREIB
Artwork : toomanypeople

Records & Vibes

Peder Mannerfelt

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