Art & Music

Monku

Lover of all kinds of music, Monku enriches his discotheque with his multiple ethnic influences. After having scattered Egypt, India, Asia Pacific, and the underbelly of the Parisian scene, Monku offers us an eclectic selection ranging from world music, disco, funk to techno sprinkled with acid.

Playin’ 4 The City

Oliver Portal’s desire to play live, led “Playin’ 4 the City” to evolve from a solo project to electronic jam sessions with up to 8 musicians, before eventually steadying to a duo with Emma Lamadji or Slikk Tim. They performed in Paris in venues such as New Morning, Rex Club, Queen, and Elysée Montmartre before touring around Europe.

Zoe’s Shanghai

Led by singer Zoé Renié Harris, the band Zoe’s Shanghai has made a splash into the crowded neo-soul scene with their debut EP ‘A Mirage (Meant To Last Forever)’ 2019 – a deeply evocative sound and Zoe’s extraordinary voice gained them immediately the spotlight as ones to watch (“a worthy torchbearer for heady and hearty soul music”- Earmilk). The band will release its new album, ‘Lava Love’, at the end of August.

Photo ©Joaquim Bayle

Tatyana Jane

Emerging from Paris, Tatyana Jane is a dj with a reputation on the rise (with regular appearances on Rinse France). Her influences are drawn just as much from deep house, Detroit house, hip-hop and trap, as from electronica. Her sets are an ode to vitality!

Mona DanceClass x Nick V

After years of residencies in the Parisian clubs, Nick V created the collective Mona back in 2008. His objective is simple: bring people together around house music, a genre born from a strong multicultural mix in the north-american clubs.  The Mona danceclass at The Conscious Festival, will be a bridge between the original form of Voguing, the Old Way style and its currently most widespread form, Vogue Fem. This open class will includes two workshops given by Tiger Saint Laurent and Madame B Mermaid, we will retrace the history of this dance and its evolutions, as well as the associated music.

Photo ©David Volants

Dolce Vito

With his many years of experience in the Mamie’ Crew, Dolce Vito has acquired an unstoppable technique. In search of futuristic sounds, he walks between soulful house and deep techno to make his hypnotic groove. He will not hesitate to take the mic to wake up the crowd and always finds the sound to light up the dancefloor.

La Mamie’s is a collective of DJs and event organizers founded in 2007 by 6 friends around a common passion for vinyl and the spirit of free and uninhibited parties. They started by organizing a dozen of events in a disused house in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris, before performing in bars and clubs in Paris, and setting up the Macki Music Festival with friends from the label Cracki Records.

Charles Dollé

It is often while walking in the street that Charles creates his music. He imagines melodies that he whispers into his phone, before transposing them in his studio. Just as a chemist would distill the molecules of a potion by balancing and filtering them meticulously, Charles Dollé sees himself as a child playing mad scientist in a white coat. His music plays on balance, mixing genres, between lightness and melancholy, intimacy and modesty. His first album Imago has been released on June 25, 2021. 

Diogo Strausz

Diogo Strausz is a music producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up in Rio de Janeiro, he began composing at a young age, and that same passion for creating music still inspires him today as a producer and dj. Strausz produced hits for independent Brazilian artists Castello Branco and Alice Caymmi, and co-produced an album for Brazilian actor Chay Suede with Mario Caldato Jr of the Beastie Boys. Now based between Paris and São Paulo, he recently co-produced the album “Les Bruits de La Ville” for French artist Voyou on Sony Music France, and remixed two songs by legendary Brazilian singer Gal Costa. 

Strausz has two upcoming releases on Brooklyn’s Razor-N-Tape label: his “Emancipação” EP and a remix of new Brazilian band Baiana System in collaboration with producer JKriv.

DJ Midori

Midori is a 27 year old artist-entrepreneur. Producer of electronic music, he has two EPs, numerous international collaborations, and has done residencies at Rinse France, NTS and Worldwide FM among others. In 2012, Midori left to live a few years in Japan, where he was very influenced by the different artistic and philosophical perspectives.

In 2015, he followed his taste for entrepreneurship and founded the label MENACE, before creating the production company SENSE five years later. He conceived his project as a platform for progressive and progressive and alternative music.

Lachinos

In a world governed by stereotypes, the Lachinos break the boundaries between people and genders. It is impossible to clearly distinguish the origin, the roots and the cultures that are specific to each of its 6 members. Lachinos champions unity through difference, by releasing their first EP “America Lachina”, which explores flows of peoples in several forms: colonization (Cáncer del Colon), the dream of a better life elsewhere (Alas Rotas), or the protection of his fiefdom until death (Huang Tuah). 

With Lachinos, we escape, we dance, we listen, we share… We forget the difficulty of living through our geographic, physical, linguistic, and cultural differences, and we become aware of the desire to develop a universal spirit, in a world full of wonders, magic and art… 

Underground Canopy

Underground Canopy formed in 2016, after years of jam sessions and covers of Flying Lotus, Madlib and J. Dilla. The five band members, Jonathan Aréna (keyboard), Warren Dongué (bass), Necky Gomis (trumpet), Alfredo Grooveton (percussion), and Jeremy Talon (guitar) share a passion for hip-hop and instrumental music, which they mix in their productions with Neo-soul and Jazz influences.

Based in Paris, they released their first original work in January 2020 with MENACE label: Bluestab & S. Fidelity present Underground Canopy. Born from endless improvisation sessions, this first EP was produced, recorded and mixed in London by artists Bluestab and S. Fidelity from Jakarta Records.

Filippo Vignato

Filippo Vignato is a Trombonist soloist, arranger and composer, and a prominent young musician in the new Italian & European jazz scene. Born and raised in a musical family, he picked-up his first trombone at the age of 10. Nowadays he performs intensively in Italy and Europe as sideman and as leader of his own bands. He is active in different fields of jazz and improvised music, embracing contemporary music, avantgarde jazz and world music. He has received several awards: from best soloist at Barga Jazz 2011, to the Burghausen European Young Artists Jazz Award 2017.

Enzo Carniel

Enzo started by studying classical piano and then discovered Jazz as a teenage. In 2010, after five years of medical studies, he decided to devote himself entirely to Jazz and joined the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. In 2012, he co-founded “House of Echo”, a quartet fond of long improvisational pieces. Influenced by the great jazz pianists, Enzo tries to explore the palettes and intrinsic possibilities of the piano. A “raw” approach to improvisation that mobilizes all his influences and sensations. In 2021, he formed the duo “Silent Room” with his trombonist friend Filippo Vignato, and released the album Aria with him on the MENACE label.