DJ Travella: “In Tanzania, our music is number one”

A DJ wearing a bucket hat and white shirt is performing on a mixing console, surrounded by colorful stage lights and smoke, spinning energetic Tanzania music inspired by DJ Travella.

Live, Travella merges with computer, hypnotized by the screen: in Fl Studio, it constantly introduces and removes a selection of eight tracks, or rather a combination of melodies, sound effects, battery loops and voice. He thus drags these audio files from his computer folders to the software, carefully choosing the tracks to be deleted or adding using his mouse and trackpad. It is 100 % live and 100 % original music. Travella “plays” her software as an instrument, in the way in which Lee …