Freedom and the Free Zone. What beautiful room names to solve generational anxieties! In these two places where the 46e the Trans Musicales de Rennes edition invests alongside its programming in the large halls of Parc Expo, a 24-year-old French-Korean, Miki, and a young Belgian couple of 23 years, Candeur Cyclone, gave, on Thursday, December 5, two versions of “a post-adolescent discourse liberated from the autonomy of electronic music and the self-sufficiency of the home studio.
At 6 p.m., we rush first to Liberté, a downtown space dedicated to welcoming professionals and a free public in the afternoon for a series of concerts. Almost a thousand people find Mikaela Duplay, aka Miki, behind her desk with keyboards and computers. Cap – it fell off quickly -, Yamaha shirt over crop top, she launches her devices with a stylish relaxation, already noted in the clips that this former film school student herself directs.
Soft and mean voice
In a few months, a trio of songs – Jtm again, checkmate, Cartoon sex – created a buzz. On stage, his lithe and mischievous voice is especially emphasized, as if to ensure that the audience will understand the intimate and unfiltered lyrics as well as possible, alternating between rapping, singing and dialogue from telephone exchanges.
Stories marked by such aesthetics kawaii Japanese, this “adorable” version of cartoon life and a cash sexuality, toxic loves, abuse that left traces (“My thighs touch sometimes/I say stupid things when people don’t listen/I got a tennis teacher who touched me where they shouldn’t be/I’ve been a bit of a ding dong ping pong player since then »). Not to mention the multiple references to the consumption of psychotropic drugs.
Miki is not exactly a beginner. Two years ago, Eurasiatica published its first titles influenced by the pop icons of the moment (Dua Lipa, Charlie, Rosalind…). The producers advised him to focus on more personal themes. Not just any producers, Yann Dernaucourt and Pierre Cornet, founders of the Initial label which, under the auspices of Universal, launched, among others, the careers of Clara LucianiFROMEddy de PrettoColumbine or Angela.
Welcoming Miki today to their new production house, Structure, they introduced him to sound producers and composers such as Canblaster or Tristan Salvati, co-signer of all Angèle’s successes. For collaborations that perhaps explain the very addictive electronics of the tracks heard at Liberté. The rest of the trip is already planned (a seven-track EP and a Gaîté-Lyrique, in Paris, planned for March 2025, before an album and an Olympia in the autumn).
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