Praktika (4)

French music producer and DJ, Jérôme Fouqueray aka Praktika was looking for new sounds and influences when he turned his ears onto the other side of the Mediterranean sea. In 2014, he took his machines to the warm lands of West Africa - a musical playground so rich in possibilities that he settled there. Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Benin, Chad, Senegal... Praktika lives between these various countries. It took him five years to develop a sound outside the beaten tracks, often through live improv sessions & jams with local instrumentalists. His DJ-sets paint a road-movie where dark techno blends with South African Gqom, Chicago house, and West African rhythms and sounds. Each set always comes with with a touch of surprising turns, brought about by Praktika’s fresh edits of old African tunes, cooked with taste in his DAW of choice: Ableton Live.