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One to watch: Sofia Kourtesis | Musique Non Stop

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Saturday, February 29, 2020

One to watch: Sofia Kourtesis

The Berlin-based producer is a musical magpie with a distinct dancefloor-friendly style

Listen to the opening number of the Peruvian-born producer Sofia Kourtesis’s first, self-titled EP, and you imagine a train made of rackety sonic junk clattering down a track. Its destination? A good time, surely: while her brand of house may be arrestingly distinct, clicking and juddering with distorted vocals and fragments of field recordings, she always keeps her eyes firmly on the dancefloor rather than the navel.

Kourtesis, who is based in Berlin, started out in a hip-hop band at 18 (“We were really bad”) before migrating to the mixing deck after meeting her now ex-partner Derwin Schlecker, AKA Gold Panda, and later becoming a booker for clubs including Berlin’s Funkhaus. Released last year by Studio Barnhus, the eclectic Stockholm-based dance label, the EP won glowing reviews (Pitchfork called it “magical”).

Sarita Colonia is out now on Studio Barnhus

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by Holly Williams via Electronic music | The Guardian

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