DJ Marfox “La Batida brings together the music of Africa and Europe”

On the Filters meadow, at the Rio Loco Festival in Toulouse, Marlon Silva aka Dj Marfox was preparing, once again, to deliver one of his epileptic sets strewn with a host of eclectic sounds (percussion, flutes, video game sound effects , synths straight out of a horror film, kalimbas, sheet metal, contraband voices tweaked then re-trafficked) and imprinted with all the urban genres that flourish in Portuguese-speaking Africa, from which it draws its origins. For more than ten years, he and his comrades from the Principe collective and label have been…