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Chloé

Kill The DJ, Paris

Is Paris still burning? If you take a close look at Chloe Thevenin, you rather think that it's covered by a sublime and beautiful layer of ice. Dubbed the dysfunctional family's hypodermic daughter (other members include Ivan Smagghe and Jennifer Cardini), she is among those kind of jocks and producers who don't care for genre barriers, media frenzies or peer pressure. Cutting her teeth as a DJ at the infamous Le Pulp in France's capital, Chloe learned at the petite girl's club how to be discreet, but impeccable and implacable selector. After a while, she put her record case to the test with the seminal mix 'I Hate Dancing' (no, we also don't believe her) that firmly installed the dame on the international jet set circus. With a string of 12s for labels like Karat, Kill The DJ or Bpitch Control, Chloé transferred that aesthetic of microscopic house or technological future pop onto plastic and more recently into an debut album called "The Waiting Room". You always wondered how music for stalactite caves could sound like? Chloé knows. Watch her live skills on the machines that techno built...