So ruff, so tuff 04/12

DUA LITY SEUL ENSEMBLE (live) LOW END ACTIVIST (live) NÍDIA

A portion of ticketing proceeds will be donated to the association Liberté Toujours * Legal Team Marseille*, Legal Support and Collective Defense.

22H30 04h30 Ateliers Jeanne Barret

Come early, Food on site!

Artwork Jan Melka

Dua Lity is a self-taught DJ, songwriter, vocalist and producer who grew up in the punk scene of Nantes. She’s now based in Marseille, where she joined her chosen family, Metaphore Collectif, and is involved in curating and promoting events. She develops a cathartic universe inspired by noughties dub metal sounds. Often bored by tunnel DJ sets, she moves between bass, dub stepper and metal while keeping her signature industrial sounds close to her.

A resident on Ola Radio since 2020, she runs her own show DOOMCAKE, centered on dub and industrial music from the 90s to today. Dua Lity is her main project. After releasing music on labels such as Precious metals (London), Explity Music (Paris), Bad Tips (Lyon), Stranacorpus (Geneva), No More Comedowns (Brusselles), she has also invested in collaborative projects, especially recording a vinyl album as part of No Physical Contact, a fresh new band with Js Donny and Sila Xd. This project reflects another of Dua Lity’s sonic facets: an inclination for improvised music and a certain fondness for extreme vocals. More recently, she started a very intimate kosmic noise project with Seul Ensemble, for which she writes, composes and sings her confessions.

Seul Ensemble is an artist and musician based in Marseille, co-creator of the label and collective Lonely Life Lovers Club, and now a member of the mighty Metaphore Collective.

In his work, he builds traversable sonic landscapes, enticing spaces on both an emotional and physical plane. To reach this state of inclusion, he relies on sound design, composition and improvisation.

Through these processes, he lays down a canvas, a snapshot of a world that is both unexplored and open to the listener's own projections. Although his intentions infuse his music, he does not want to impose them, but rather gives us the freedom to reach and express our own feelings through it.

That is precisely what the notion « Seul Ensemble » means: a unique and intimate experience, felt collectively in a moment outside time.

With an omnivorous approach to every fibre of soundsystem culture, Low End Activist revels in the alchemy of sample manipulation and bass pressure across the hardcore continuum. From the earliest mutations of breakbeat and jungle to the sleek bump of garage via dubstep’s half-time meditations and grime’s volatile riddims, this is a project steeped in reverence for the formidable force inherent in UK dance music culture. First surfacing with the certifiable UKG party-starter ‘Park End’ featuring Trim, they delivered their first full-length sermon in tribute to the dub soundsystem legacy of the Blackbird Leys estate in Oxford with the Low End Activism EP on Sneaker Social Club. The Game Theory double pack on Seagrave brought Roll Deep legend Flowdan into the fold for a searing collaboration framed by the kind of paranoid future-shock sonic matter that has upheld the allure of bassweight music since the dub days of Scratch and Tubby in 1970s Jamaica. A series of 12”s on a self-steered label has brought more visceral vocal talent into the mix, including Vybz Kartel and Duppy Gun-affiliated dancehall MC Sikka Rymes and UK upstart Razor, alongside remixes from outwardly experimental artists such as Loraine James, John T. Gast and Low Jack. All these connections and pursuits point to the restless inspiration driving Low End Activist – a culmination of decades spent soaking in the bassbins and still pinging off the alien signals being transmitted in the present day.

Nídia is an internationally acclaimed Afro-Portuguese electronic producer and DJ, based in Vale da Amoreira, on the south bank of the River Tagus, across from Lisbon. As part of the Príncipe Discos record label and artistic collective, she has played a decisive role, both as an individual artist and within the community, in bringing inspiringly progressive aesthetics and ethics to contemporary alternative dance infrastructure around the globe, and to kuduro culture in particular.

"Danger" was her first physical record, released on Príncipe in 2015, when she was still signing as "Nídia Minaj", followed by the debut LP "Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida" in 2017, both enthusiastically acclaimed. In 2020 she launched a celebrated trilogy attack with the "Badjuda Sukulbembe" 7'', the "Não Fales Nela Que A Mentes" LP and the "S/T" EP.

In 2024 Nídia joined forces with avant-percussionist Valentina Magaletti, resulting in the "Estradas" LP, released by the Parisian label Latency. Their wondrous debut record offered an understated revolt against imposed meaning, dominance and inadvertently established conformity. Their social music embodies a desire to address the current states of our minds and bodies, once imbued in paramount social musics such as Jazz and Dance.

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Une partie des bénéfices de la billetterie sera reversée à l’association Liberté Toujours Legal Team Marseille, Soutien Juridique et Défense Collective.

Artwork Jan Melka

Organisation : association polymorphe

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