Marie Davidson presents: Fools Don't Cry

Who they are

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  Marie Davidson

  Montreal, Canada · 10 bookings since Dec 2023

  “Marie Davidson has always gone against the grain.”

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  Marie Davidson has always gone against the grain. The French-Canadian producer’s first four albums established her as a transgressive force in dance music, with her 2014 debut Perte d'identité (Loss of identity) laying the foundations of organic electronics and introspective storytelling that she would continue to build upon. Each release probed her “dualistic” relationship to nightlife while becoming increasingly saturated in its abundance of sounds, from Detroit techno to Italo disco, finally reaching a fever pitch on 2018’s Polaris Music Prize-nominated Working Class Woman. Putting the pitfalls of club culture and her own fractured identity under a withering satirical lens, Working Class Woman doesn’t wrestle with the existential as much as fling it around the dancefloor. After that, 2020’s Renegade Breakdown broke the mould entirely. With “a will to explore other styles of music,” Davidson formed a band with her husband and longtime collaborator Pierre Guerineau (also her counterpart in the duo Essaie Pas) and producer Asaël Robitaille. A deeply collaborative project, the trio wrote a slate of experimental pop songs inspired by records they would play at living-room afterparties – jazz classics, French chanson, electronica – on which Davidson sang for the first time. Four years and a pandemic later, Davidson’s sixth studio album, City of Clowns, marks a return to the club – but not as you know it. The techno thump and scathing spoken-word delivery of Working Class Woman resurface at points, but the pop structures and melodic sensibilities of Renegade Breakdown also remain. It’s a “strange” sonic blend even by Davidson’s own standards. “It’s definitely linking back to what I was doing pre-pandemic, but with a bit of an evolution,” she says. “I didn't want to just repeat myself.” The sound and the spirit of the album are shaped, too, by the fact that Davidson has a new antagonist. This time it’s not club culture that’s coming for her sense of self, it’s Big Tech.
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  Their RA profile lists Ninja Tune, Cititrax, DEEWEE and Holodeck Records.

  Last at public records in Dec 2023 · often with Andi, Jubilee, Xeno & Oaklander, none of them here that night

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  Amelia Holt

  Tamaulipas, Mexico · 104 bookings since Aug 2023

  “Amelia Holt, is one of Brooklyn’s most distinctive, interesting selectors With a unique approach to rhythm, Holt crafts DJ sets which fuse percussive rhythms with electronic beats, transforming any dancefloor into a culture-bending, otherworldly experience.”

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  Amelia Holt, is one of Brooklyn’s most distinctive, interesting selectors With a unique approach to rhythm, Holt crafts DJ sets which fuse percussive rhythms with electronic beats, transforming any dancefloor into a culture-bending, otherworldly experience. One may hear her play broken beats, deep high octane, fine and elegant dance, alt techno, sharp electro, and delusional krautrock – sometimes all in the same night. Amelia holds a residency at The Lot Radio and has played in the best of NYC’s venues including Good Room, Nowadays & Bossa Nova Civic Club & festivals, Sustain-Release & Dripping. Outside the US, she’s brought her sound to Mexico City, Berlin, Munich, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Madrid and many more. In addition to her radio endeavors, Amelia curates the music newsletter In Your Dirty Ears and runs the party series Honey Trap.
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  Released on Klan (1) and My Music (1). labels on their catalogued releases

  Recently at Roberta's, Mansions, H0L0 · often with Second Contact, Seth Magoon, 98dots, none of them here that night

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  DJ Haram

  New York City · 20 bookings since Aug 2023

  “DJ Haram is a rap/electronic producer and DJ originally from New Jersey currently based in Brooklyn, NY.”

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  DJ Haram is a rap/electronic producer and DJ originally from New Jersey currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Stylistically versatile, Haram is known equally for her bass and club music heavy DJ sets, detail oriented analogue sound design, electronic-folk Middle Eastern production, and abrasive rap collaborations. She makes up half of ‘700 Bliss,’ a hip hop/noise project with Moor Mother; the two released the critically acclaimed ‘Nothing to Declare’ on Hyperdub Records in 2022. DJ Haram currently runs ‘Monday Night Raw’ monthly at Brooklyn staple the Lot Radio, curating open format DJ b2bs and live rap and experimental performances. She previously held residence at Rinse FM London with ‘Rage Radio’ spanning 5 years. Internationally, she has played on noteworthy stages like Dekmantel, Unsound, Roskilde, Le Guess Who?, Boiler Room, Berghain, Sonar, Tashweesh, Bonnaroo and has toured from Tokyo to Cairo. DJ Haram has released 3 solo EPs including Grace (Hyperdub, 2019) and the self-released Mixed Berries (2019) and Era (2021). In 2023, Haram released a number of collaborations and remixes, notably producing Armand Hammer’s returning single ‘Trauma Mic’ ft. Pink Siifu, remixing Fever Ray ‘Carbon Dioxide,’ and reciting a poem on ‘Shook World,’ King Vision Ultra’s reinterpretation of Algiers’ ‘Shook.’ DJ Haram will be releasing her debut solo album in 2024.
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  Their RA profile lists Hyperdub and Backwoodz Studios.

  Recently at Market Hotel, Paragon, Knockdown Center · often with ARCHANGEL, Omar Ahmad, Nappy Nina, none of them here that night