On my show this month:
All over the place

Marrakesh, Buenos Aires, Sardinia, Madagasikara and the western Sahara are some of the exotic places Marcelle pays a visit to in this month's show.
As always the Dutch deejay explores unknown territories in her show. And guess what: the guitar frenzy of Group Doueh and Troupe Majidi sound far more interesting and challenging than the whole of the current UK indie guitar scene put together.
There is more weirdness from New York (Eric Copeland, High Places). However, Jackdaw With Crowbar, The Rebel, Benga and Lianne Hall show there are still musical forces in the UK to be reckoned with.
From the main land of Europe comes new music from Berlin/Vienna (Cluster), Berlin (Ellen Allien), Brussels (DJ Elephant Power), Paris (Sa Bat' Machines) and Amsterdam (Zea).
Marcelle goes in her radio show all over the place, like she does when travelling as a live deejay: she has just recorded a new vinyl mix album ... on the banks of the river Donau.

On the show NEXT month:
Remote controls

In her August show Marcelle has the Slovakian Urbsounds Collective in session, demonstrating that the most adventurous and never-heard-it-like-this-music comes from the more remote places.
Other good news is the come-back of German avant garde electronics label Mille Plateaux, which spontaneously provided Marcelle a signature tune for her show. We learn about Shangaan music, a current dance craze in South Africa, count the numbers the musicians having a great time on the streets of New Orleans and laugh about the hilarious review about one of the Fall´s most loved singles, released and published 30 years ago.
More new challenging music comes from the likes of Hey-O-Hansen, Istari Lasterfahrer, Bong-Ra and Jazzsteppa and the prize for the worst sleeve of the month goes to ... Switzerland. Forget the UK and the USA, remote controls!

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Biography:

"DJ Marcelle: What a difference it makes to have a DJ hitting on the moment - records that astonish, full of bizarre and unexpected twists; one minute you're thinking how beautiful life sounds, the next how scary, then how strangely hilarious." (Ipswich gig review)

In August 2008 a Belgian music journalist wrote: 'Marcelle is our guide for a better and more adventurous musical life. In Holland and far beyond she has proved to be the leading lady in such diverse genres as dubstep, garage punk, techno, hip hop, dubtechno and many more besides.'

Dutch deejay Marcelle certainly is truly eclectic. She is versatile, adventurous and surprising. On her latest mix album 'DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess Meets Her Soulmates At Faust Studio Deejay Laboratory', released in September 2008 by the German Klangbad label, she mixes and sometimes plays simultaneously African tribal drumming with a cutting edge UK rapper, Chinese dub with Austrian accordion playing, bass heavy dubstep with animal noises, breakcore with postpunk and minimal techno with acid chants. And guess what? You can't stop dancing to her lively mix!

Marcelle has always kept an open ear for every kind of (new) music and always tries to stay ahead of the audience. Marcelle is not one to remain in the trappings of a certain musical genre. No matter how much she likes styles like dubstep, weird electronica, leftfield hip hop, dancehall and dub, when clubs and radio shows play only one of these styles Marcelle gets a little bit bored.

Buying (loads of) records since 1977 she 'survived' punk, postpunk, techno, reggae, indie guitar, drum 'n' bass, neue Deutsche Welle, breakcore, grime, industrial, minimal, dubstep, world music et cetera and there is no doubt that she will easily cope with any future trends. As Scout Niblett sings in her version of 'Uptown Top Ranking', the last track on Marcelle's album and often the last track of her live gigs: 'I got no style, I'm strictly roots'.

When she played the 2007 Klangbad Festival (curated by Hans-Joachim Irmler, founder member of Krautrock legends and Peel favourites Faust), Irmler was taken aback by the deejay style of Marcelle. He recognised in her the same cutting edge spirit of own his musical making and invited her to come back to Faust Studio in Scheer to record a mix album. The two agreed that that mix should be released on vinyl only, for aesthetic, audio and historical reasons. The photo on this page was taken during the recording of the album.

The title of the album refers to old dub albums like 'King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown' or 'Rockers Meets King Tubbys In A Firehouse', et al, which Marcelle bought by the dozens in the 70's and 80's. The 'soulmates' in the title stand for all artists on the album and all the other inspiring people Marcelle has met through music. She feels very deeply about these friendships, some of which go far beyond a shared love for underground music.

In addition to being a wicked club DJ, playing wild sets across the stages of Europe, Marcelle has been running a radio show called Another Nice Mess for more than 20 years on Radio 100, later DFM Radio in Amsterdam. Through the wonders of internet this weekly three hour live show is now being listened to all over the world. Every Tuesday between 18 and 21 hours GMT Marcelle hosts the show from her Amsterdam living room enabling listeners to e-mail her during the live programme, which has her running around the house looking for their requests in her extensive personal collection (15,000 records). She hopes that her Dandelion show will at least receive the same amount of enthusiasm and praise.

Marcelle is happy that she has joined Dandelion Radio at last. Apart from doing shows for DFM and Dandelion Marcelle was asked to join Radio FSK in Hamburg, where she is a resident deejay in a club. FSK is a station for which John Peel also did shows. Her monthly FSK show Marcelle will present (in German!) from December 2008 onwards.

In 2005 as a tribute to Marcelle's radio show, English artist Listen With Sarah released a single, 'Another Nice Mix', made up entirely of samples from the programme and Marcelle's 2004 mix album. The record, featuring the voices of John Peel, Laurel & Hardy and Marcelle amongst others, was voted by listeners to number 13 in the BBC Radio One Festive 50 of 2005.

Tracklistings for my previous shows:
06/2010 - 05/2010 - 04/2010 - 03/2010 - 02/2010 - 01/2010 - 12/2009 - 11/2009 - 10/2009 - 09/2009 - 08/2009 - 07/2009 - 06/2009 - 05/2009 - 04/2009 - 03/2009 - 02/2009 - 01/2009 - 12/2008 - 11/2008