DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess

Andrew Lloyd Webber: "Marcelle embodies the future of the musical. I can take a step back with confidence."Tina Turner. Princess Diana. Johan Cruijff. Jesus. Abba. Spider-Man. Jerry Springer. Mormons. A brothel. MontyPython. A gay remake of Shakespeare. Anne Frank. Nothing and no-one seems to be able to escape the fangs of themusical industry. So it's no real surprise that the last woman standing, DJ Marcelle/Another Nice Mess, has also fallenvictim to this evil fate. The album, after last year's 'Explain The Food, Bitte' her second release with Berlin label 'PlayLoud! Productions', is as surprising and up-to-date as ever. Marcelle's productions come into existence quite quickly,like sketches capturing a moment. Take, for example, 'The Quarantine House Party Try-Out', a bouncy track dealingwith those illegal parties people organised in their own homes during the covid period. With the pandemic nowhopefully over, the dj/producer travels the world again. Marcelle deals with this in 'Soups On Tour', related to a linkon her website where she documents all soups she eats on the road (and in restaurants). Its this individual approachto her creative process that gives her artistic fulfillment, her D.I.Y. attitude is inherent to everything she does and isreflected in her creative process as a whole, from the music itself to how it is presented: on the sleeve of 'DJMarcelle: The Musical' we see her literally 'dropping' a musical. The freedom she grants herself is essential, she neverhad the difficulty of coping with certain expectations or being stuck with a certain perceived musical (ha!) profile,because she has always been able to make sure people didnt have any anticipation of where her music (and dj-sets)would go in the first place. So it's no real surprise that, following danceable tracks like 'Voted Best DJ School ( 25%Off') and weird album opener/warning 'This Record Is Scratched' on side A, we get only one track on side B: the 17-minute-plus technoid stomper 'Smacznego!' (Polis...