Territories : World excl. GER - FRA - BEN - UK

Double LP
A_16 minutes
A1_Renegade 4.49
A2_Tirana 5.49
A3_The Movements 5.23
B_10 minutes
B1_Gone 6.50
B2_Morgan La Nuit 2.36
C_12 minutes
C1_The New Is Not Born Yet 5.45
C2_Eaux Troubles 6.04
D_12 minutes
D1_Limb By Limb 5.10
D2_Plant 21 6.06

French by way of Berlin DJ/producer La Fraicheur finally delivers with a first 9-track
album, Self-Fulfilling Prophecy, her first release on the InFiné label.
This remarkably dense, dancefloor-oriented album oscillates between techno,
ambient and electronic music, a mesmeric yet pounding effort that gets the body and
the mind moving. Gone and The Movements, the most vindictive and propulsive
tracks are veritable ecstatic missiles that are sure to create aftershocks on
dancefloors for months to come.
While this album was primarily produced in Berlin, where La Fraicheur has been
living for the past six years, it also owes a debt to Detroit. Over the summer of 2017,
the young woman was privy to a six-week residence at Underground Resistance
mythical studios. There, she alternated between immersive work sessions,
surrounded by the machine that birthed some of techno culture’s most iconic tracks,
and long bike ride among the city’s deserted highways and luxuriating abandoned
gardens. She also met Mike Banks, the label’s mythical figure: «one of the most
important meetings in my life.» She ventured into the adjacent General Motors
Fisher Plant to record takes, which make up the raw material for the track «Plant
21».
The musician has been making strides in the electronic sphere for over ten years
now, at first solely as a DJ, and then as a producer. Having been initiated to the art of
mixing since her teenage years, she absorbed a number of music styles before
focusing on house and techno, which her older sister introduced her to by taking her
to clubs such as Le Pulp. At the beginning of the 2000s, she played regular set in
Paris and elsewhere, while experimenting with a number of jobs in the music
industry. While living in Montréal she rubbed shoulders with the indie rock milieu
(even picking up a guitar for some time), before setting out to Berlin.
«I thought I would stop mixing when I moved to Berlin. Once there, I quickly realized
that I hadn’t seen anything yet in terms of electronic music in general and clubs in
particular... In Berlin, I was totally invigorated: I have found the urge to mix and I felt
for the first time the urge to compose.» In Berlin, in those clubs where the nights
stretch endlessly, she started dancing and developing a much more organic
relationship with music. In 2015, she decided to put aside all of her moonlighting and
concentrate exclusively and intensively on her music, alternating between DJ sets
and composition sessions in her home studio.
She became a resident at Salon zur Wilde Renate, one of the city’s leading clubs,
where she threw the Quer nights — a reference to the German word quer (which
means «across» or «sideways») and the word queer — for over two years. A
member of the Female:Pressure network, La Fraicheur is also a committed
feminist activist, and an active member of the fervent queer scene. She is a guest of
the scene’s hottest parties of the moment Gegen, Pornceptual or even House of
Red Doors.
Present on several fronts at the same time, she maintains a close relationship with
the Mensch Meier, of which she speaks as her home. A creation of the legendary
Fusion Festival team, the highly alternative club (which is more than a club) is
renowned for its very eclectic music programming, as well as political commitment.
Overseeing the techno part of the club, La Fraicheur also shares in the political
values that the club seeks to defend, which are both part and parcel of the
establishment’s identity.
«I want to use moments of dancing to stimulate a bit of political awakening,» she
says, and, speaking of her album in particular, (on which are scattered various
samples of politically explicit content (for example, excerpts from an interview with
Angela Davis). While Self Fulfilling Prophecy clearly aspires to raise awareness, it
does so subtly, without ever relegating music to the second class. This is neither
«ready-to-think» or «ready-to-dance», but an assembly of sophisticated rhythms,
sounds and words that it are up to each listener to interpret in their own way. La
Fraicheur does not seek to deliver a message, or impose a discourse, but to distill
an idea and suggest a relationship to the world – a report to the world based on the
affirmation of self and acceptance of others in all their differences.
J.P.

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