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

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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…