DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess

By putting different styles of music in a different context, Marcelle changes the way we experience those individual styles. She fuses musical styles like no other, making it seem like they always belonged together and making the audience believe they are listening to one track instead of three played simultaneously! She plays with expectations and roles: Environmental sounds are combined with avant-garde noises, animal sounds are used and mixed with left field techno, free jazz, weird hip hop, cutting edge electronica, new African dance music, dubstep, dancehall and lots of less classifiable records. Marcelle plays all over Europe, both in clubs and in museums/galleries, and is a resident dj in a lot of cities, amongst them Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Basel and Zurich. In 2015 and 2016 she was a live dj for a Barcelona circus/performance group. The Uganda Nyege Nyege Music Festival has appointed her as 'lifetime resident dj'. Marcelle also does weekly and monthly radio shows for various radio stations in Europe, like Red Light Radio, FSK and DFM. On a John Peel discussion group on the internet she was described as the ‘best post-Peel DJ’. For Marcelle the musical form is in a way irrelevant, as long as some urgency is there and a need for not standing still. Therefore, sometimes bookers, journalists and audience members initially get confused because Marcelle is hard to pigeonhole. A fitting description would be ‘avant-garde ethno-bass’ - but you decide.