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                          MISS BLUE BIOGRAPHY

Hailing from Rennes, in the Brittany region of North-West France, Miss Blue is the central artist in the modern day Breizh'n'Bass movement. A longstanding DJ and producer, Blue blends traditional Breton language music with upfront modern electronica, creating a soundworld which encourages listeners of differing ages and cultures to take a moment to understand different musical preferences and tastes. In the process, she's carving a possible way forward for the preservation of the now marginalised Breton language and culture. To affect this fresh soundworld, Blue draws elements from hip-hop, dancehall, jungle drum and bass, electro, breakbeat, dubstep and beyond, grounding her DJ sets and beat production in an ethos drawn from formative years spent as a B-girl and graffiti writer. In this sense, Hip-Hop's fundamentally community oriented spirit, and ability to speak across cultures and languages in a musical manner is a key force in her creative impulses. Since taking up the turntables and studio production consoles, Blue has performed at festivals and nightclubs across Europe, America, Canada and Asia, in the process playing alongside Diplo, DJ Zinc, Sinden, Sebastian, DJ Mujava, Brodinski and countless others.

In terms of affiliations, Blue is a member of international female DJ crew Geishaz and is or has been sponsored by Breizh Punishers, Kanabeach Clothing, A L’Aise Breizh, Adidas. A traditional creator in fashion made her a special breton brode underbust. She also tutors students in the art of DJing in her spare time and has taken part in scratching workshops with DJ Q-Bert. A new development in Blue's career is her Breizh'n'Bass live show, which she performs via Ableton Live, in conjunction with musical and vocal assistance from top tier traditional Breton language musicians brothers Guichen and Eric Marchand and Yann Fanch Kemener. From this concept, Blue is working towards two albums, one incorporating traditional Breton language music into electronica and one of straight-up instrumental tunes. (writter: Martyn Pepperell)

Breizh'n Bass Modern Western Just like Stanley Kubrick‘s Space Odyssey, my adventure as a DJ-producer started in 2001. As I only owned a few vinyl records at that time, I naturally turned to my parents’ collection. Eventually I came across an album by the Goadeg Sisters (a traditional Breton acapella singing group) that belonged to my father. I started mixing traditional Breton music over drum’n’bass records: how whimsical! Yet, the magic happened at once. And from this daring mixture, Breizh’n’bass was born! This mix was my nature, my Breton culture, my roots and their extensions… And simultaneously the emergence of an underground movement.

Consecration One day - not by Merlin’s magic but after working hard - newspapers, radios and television started to get interested in my project. To me it was new! They referred emphatically to the new musical genre: it was real recognition. With a good education and musical background, a passion for dance and a degree in anthropology, I made it my mission to convey a very different image from the clichés. I wish to promote contemporary Brittany and its creative personalities through music. I believe this current representation will resonate around the world, just as, wherever you are, from New York to Japan through to Los Angeles, chances are you will have already met a Breton!

Respecting differences I come from a militant family who struggle for the preservation of the Breton culture and more specifically its language. I was brought up to respect others and their differences. Like many others, I wish to erase the fusty image of regional languages in society. I intend to claim that we are capable of both maintaining our linguistic and cultural heritage in our everyday life and see ourselves as part of the wider world and speak other languages to be part of the wider conversation.

I understood that Breizh’n’bass would help me to remain true to myself, and music would enable me to understand any culture in the world. From early childhood, I’ve been totally fascinated by how percussion, drums and bass could create trances. With acapella songs added on top at a rapid rhythm, I realised that sound waves could bring me beyond frontiers and across oceans.

“I belong to the world with my own particularity” The album you are holding in your hands is the result of two years of intense work aiming at achieving an impeccable sound quality while respecting the musical traditions I come from. This “opus incertum” is the culmination of live collaborations as well as studio recordings with several artists with whom I shared projects or performances. Eric Marchand and Yann-Fañch Kemener sing a duet, the Guichen Brothers play the guitar and accordion and Jerry Cornic plays the trumpet.

I used samples from the traditional Breton acapella songs called “kan ha diskan” by the Goadeg Sisters, the Morvan Brothers and Alan Stivell as well as a track by Ar Re Yaouank which revolutionised Breton music during the eighties. At that time as a girl, I used to see them frequently in associations, cultural circles and at my parents’ home. This record aims to achieve balance between various components; a perfect fusion between two worlds which speak in very different vernaculars. Between clubbing and Breton culture, my experience in dance music has enabled me to create rhythmic tracks, conceived to unwind with joy and good humour! The seventeen tracks result from a combination off skills, energy and knowledge.

All the artists enlisted accepted involvement with no hesitation. Therefore, they have been able to broaden their horizons with a musical sphere that was closer to them than they realised! More featuring artists will embark upon new creations to come. Gildas Barronet, a composer, also helped me to find an image of what an electronic musician should be which suited my personality, that is, my temperament and my convictions.

In this new opus, one has to mention the involvement of Arrow, a VJ from Rennes and member of Fresharts since 2008. An impetuous duet for a full show: videos are mixed live and their atmospheres are closely linked to the electronic-breizh sounds of this album.

As a conclusion, you will be able to download my instrumental tracks of hip hop, jungle, drum’n’bass and dubstep influences on Beat Port and various online music shops – should you ever fancy the rhythm…

MISS BLUE ALBUM Miss Blue is the encounter between an ancestral culture and a resolutely modern and contemporary sound. Brought up in a Breton-speaking and militant environment, this young Djette and producer naturally laid the foundations of a novel and original movement : « Breizh'n'bass ». The crazy challenge of this young woman from Rennes is to make tradition rhyme with modernity and to create an extension of her roots and culture while promoting a contemporary image of Brittany and its creative personalities. She's been polishing her style for 10 years now and multiplying sound combinations that she neatly engraved on this first album.

« Breizh'n'bass », is also the title of the record that Miss Blue has been working on for 2 years. She multiplied collaborations with Breton artists such as Erik Marchand, Yann-Fañch Kemener, the Guichen Brothers or Jerry Cornic ; drawing over and over on the multiple riches from traditional music. Throughout the 16 tracks of this first opus, Drum'n'bass, Jungle, Dubstep and Hip Hop are harmoniously combined with « kan ha diskan » (traditional Breton acapella songs) by Alan Stivell, the Goadec Sisters or the Morvan Brothers. These musical spheres, which may seem completely different, combine as if by magic, in a common and irresistible trance.

Accustomed to concert halls as well as festivals or free parties, she is also used to Festoù-noz (traditional Breton feasts) from where she learnt her first dance steps. Narrow minds should rest assured: Miss Blue's phenomenon is not simply about traditional Breton dances brought onto the dance floors... It is much more than that ! It is about communion of rythms and trances- close and different at the same time- which naturally co-exist and are one. Thanks to this first album, « Breizh'n'bass », Miss Blue initiates more a movement than a genre or a style ! « And from Tokyo to Paris and from Quimper to Ibiza, anyone will identify with it, as it is well known that anywhere you go, you will always meet a Breton! »

Traduction: Claudine Bardouil

OUEST France HORS SERIE

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ART MAGAZINE (Février 2006 Saint Martin, Caraibes)

PULP MAG (Février 2006)

BRETON MAGAZINE N°5 (Novembre 2005)

OUEST France (Juillet 2005)

LE TELEGRAMME (Aout 2005)

CHINE PROMO (31 Décembre/ 01 Janvier 07)

JAPAN PROMO TOKYO

OUEST FRANCE (Decemebre 2008)

LE PETIT BLEU (SEPTEMBRE 2011)

TELEGRAMME (Février 2006)

LE TELEGRAMME (Août 2005)

ZAP MAG (Octobre 2004)

OTROFON INTERNATIONAL MAG (2008) (geishaz crew)

BLOG DES TRANS

STARWAX MAG

OUEST France (Février 2007)

LE TELEGRAMME (Février 2004)

Ouest France ( Mars 2007)

PRESSE OCEAN (Janvier 2007)

OUEST FRANCE (Mai 2008)

BARA GWIN (Septembre 2003)

POP MONTREAL (Septembre 2004)

TELEGRAMME Septembre 2006

TELEGRAMME Septembre 2006

BREIZH MAG N°1 Août 2006

HYDROMEL MAGAZINE (Octobre 2006)

LE TELEGRAMME (Novembre 2011)

Le Telegramme (juin 2012)

Ouest France annonce France Info ITW de Miss Blue 2012

Ouest France 2012

MISS BLUE Résidence tous mois/ tous les 2 mois à L’ALG Paris 11eme

A NOUS PARIS (Novembre 2011)

LE TELEGRAMME (Aout 2011)

OUEST FRANCE (Octobre 2009) …

MISS DJ BLUE GIGS MISS BLUE COUNTRY GIGS: CHINA: SOS Club (Guangzhou), BB Club, House Club (Donguan), Falling (Chongching), Club (Wuxi).. SPAIN: EL TREN Club (Granada), Mogambo Club (Valencia) USA: MIAMI : Laudry Bar, Liquidor Lounge, Adidas Store (2008/2009), Ultra Festival (MIAMI World Conference) NEW YORK : Adidas Store, Art Gallery, Pull In Store LOS ANGELES: Viper Room, Area 33, Adidas Store SAN FRANSISCO: Hexagone Q Bert University MAROC: Ce'on Club (Casablanca) TUNISIE: Locomotive Club (Monastir), Le Pacha Club (Ile de Djerba) ALLEMAGNE: Galerie Disco Club(Dresden), Salt'N Pepper (Pforzheim) POLOGNE: Electro Club (Katowice), Theartre (Varsovie) QUEBEC: Blue Dog, Laika Pop Montreal CARAIBES: Le Cheyenne Club, Zoo Regatta, Little New York, Zoo Rock (Guadeloupe), La Chapelle Club, Blue Martini (St Martin) SUISSE: Hotel Le Chamois (Les Diablerets 10 gigs), Bikini Test Club JAPON : Saloon, Maraja (Tokyo), Jijji, Mafali (Okinawa)

FRANCE: Alimentation Generale club (Residence/Paris), BMW Concessionnaire (rennes), Chateau Des Ducs de Bretagne (Nantes), Divan du Monde (Paris), Le Cesar Club(Brest), Le Liberté (Rennes), Lieu unique (Nantes), Le safari Club (Seignosse), Salle de la Cité (Rennes), Le Vauban (Brest), L'Antipode (Rennes), Les Ecluses Club (Ile d'Oleron), L'Escarcelle Club/ Le Noroit/ Chez Sophie (ile de Groix), Le Coco Beach Club/ L'Inside/ La Tortue Geniale/ Le Manège (Lorient), Le Triskel Club (Plouay), L'Atlan'ile Club (Belle Ile en mer), L'Olympique (Nantes), Zenith (Nantes), La Java (Paris), L'Oceade Club (Lorient), Raphia Club (Nantes), Salle de Gwennandour (Brasparts), Diff'Art (Parthenay), Le Jardin Moderne (Rennes), Mondo Bizarro (Rennes), La Villa club (Rennes), L'Insaa (Rennes), Le Docks Club (Dournenez), Chez Meme (Quimper), Le Friendly (Hennebont), El Teatro Club/ L'Hacienda/ 1929 /Bistrot de la Cité/ La Bonne Nouvelle (Rennes), Le 51 Bis (Nantes), Penn Ar Beb Club (29), Le BooBooz (Biscarosse), Un singe en Hiver ( Vieux boucau), Le Sloopy's Club/ Le fer Rouge / P'ti Bar (Chatel), Cafe Sol Club (Alpes 1600), Prends ta luge et tire toi (Courchevel), Le FreeRide / L'Igloo Club (Alpes D'Huez), Le MBC Club (Val D'Isère) FESTIVALS OU MISS BLUE S'EST PRODUITE: Trans Musicales (Rennes), Les Vieilles charrues (Carhaix), Le Bout du Monde (Crozon), Euskal Herria Zuzenean (Pays Basque), Panorama (Morlaix), Les arts Dinent à l'Huile (Douarnenez), Les Hivernautes (Quimper), Breizh Touch (Paris), Terre Nuevas (Bobital), Rock'n Solex (Rennes), Festival de Cornouaille (Quimper), Chausses tes Tongues (Perros Guirrec), Festival de Ker Zion (Guisseny) Festival de Bobital (Bobital) Zik'n troll (Meneac), Groix sur scene (Ile de Groix), Printemps de Bourges (Bourges), Festival du Commerce Equitable (Brasparzh), Chauffer dans la Noirceur (Normandie), La Grande Braderie (Lilles), Naoned Breizh Fever (Nantes), Quartiers d'Ete (Rennes), Yaouank (Rennes), I Have a Drum 1 (Rennes), I Love DNB (Brest), 30 ans Diwan (Carhaix), Dazibao(Rennes)

SITE INTERNET MISS DJ BLUE: http://www.dj-blue.fr/ http://www.myspace.com/missdjblue http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dj-miss-blue/42334283557 https://twitter.com/missdjblue CONTACTS : +33 (0) 681914794 bluebooking@gmail.com

Miss Blue : 1 Praticable+taps noir 2 Platines Mk2 1 Serato 1 Table de Mix ( Eclair nuo 5, Vestax pro 7, Djm 800, ...) 2 Cellules Ortofon 1 Micro Miss Blue & Arrow Vj (possibilité) 1 Macbook 1 Controller Midi 1 Vidéoprojecteur 1 écran de vidéoprojection arrière (200x240)