Anne Buffard aka dj Nanou, French passport but a clandestine in Italy, lives between Italy and France. But it is in Trieste, north-eastern city bordering on Slovenia, that she trains as a dj. In 2001, she was the dj of Bazar, music radio program on air from Radio Fragola, Trieste’s historic independent radio station, where she meets the main protagonists of the local electronic scene. She starts turning her tables in small smoky clubs featuring a deep, Detroit sound with a soulful tone. As a resident dj at Naima, she’s the soul behind the “couleur café” gig, an explosive black groove mix between old and new funk.
But her passion for techno and electronic sounds leads her to star in some of the most important Italian and Slovenian festivals and clubs, such as Ambasada Gavioli (Izola), Channel 0 (Ljubljana), Zoo- Usine (Geneva), Electroblog, MilanoFilmFestival and the Creativity Festival in Florence, to name but a few. Nanou stood out in many an occasion for her highly sophisticated style, which turns the dancefloor on with a deep melodic tone (maybe the result of 10 years of classical piano studies…) that does not necessarily push on bpm or rough sounds. But Nanou’s also got what it takes to be straight and harsh when it’s needed!
She also shares her console with dj Dibla, member of the Electrosacher collective, in a 4-turntable project called “Azazel&Nanou”, born to give free room to performances that cannot just be content with the classical one-console standard. Their incredible funk machine sounds much more as a live performance than as a classic dj-set.
Nanou has been collaborating with the record shop / dj-point Ohm Records and label with the same name based in Trieste and in 2007 she became part of the art direction of the Electroblog festival. With the same crew, she organizes the popular no-xcuses nites in Trieste, where she shares the decks with interesting artists of the European scene.
Furthermore, Nanou is dedicating herself to producing her own tracks. Soon her first 12” will be released on the promising Italian label “Registrazioni italiane” for which she already mixed a compilation entitled “Minimalismo italiano”, dedicated to dance-floor oriented electronic music produced by some of the most important Italian producers.
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