Kill the DJ

Officially, Kill the DJ is a Parisian label founded in 2002 that began by publishing club music before quickly expanding to other genres such as folk, synthetic rock and baroque noise. Unofficially, it is above all an informal collective for cultural action led by the team from the lesbian club Pulp, which closed in 2007, but whose spirit never died. KTDJ produces discs above all as part of a project to educate people at large and liberate bodies and souls. A queer organisation by (counter-) nature, it seeks to get people dancing outside clubs, to provide food for thought outside universities and to offer beauty outside galleries. When the CN D invited Fany Corral and Stéphanie Fichard, the two women who run KTDJ, to organise evenings on its premises, they enthusiastically agreed. In 2017, in an atmosphere both intense and relaxed, mixed and committed, more than one thousand people danced until dawn on three occasions in the Atrium of the Brutalist building that is home to the CN D. Regulars at the label’s evenings mingled with curious locals and dancers who frequent the CN D. The experience was such a success that it is being repeated this year, the same format, with free admission, affordable bar prices, local DJs, and as ever the large window and the terrace that enable the party to breathe.