This week’s Five on Friday comes from Marie Avril, who developed her musical sensibility in the early 90s through the basement squat parties of Geneva and across Switzerland. Labels like Mental Groove, Playhouse, Kompakt and Codek were doing interesting things at the time, nudging her towards punk-funk, DIY disco and a bassier, more leftfield sound while techno held court across much of the Swiss scene.
The producers that shaped her most tell their own story: Arthur Russell, DJ Hell, Miss Kittin, Padded Cell, In Flagranti, Kalabrese, Justus Köhncke, Kreidler. A restless, genre-resistant bunch, which gives you a reasonable…
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