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Barcelona electro-punk duo Dame Area: ‘Seeing other women playing weird stuff made me want to try’
Blending noise and techno, the pair are determined to make dance music more than a ‘functional, metronomic thing’ – and to never play the same set twice
Dame Area aren’t bothered about making hits – in fact, when the Spanish-Catalan electro-punk duo see a song catching on in their live shows, they might remove it from the set list. The pair met a decade ago through Màgia Roja, a 100-capacity DIY music venue, label and creative hub Crux co-founded in Barcelona, where musicians and punters writhed alongside each other on the dancefloor in lieu of a stage. In January, Konstance and Crux will return to Barcelona to play their first show on home turf since 2023, before taking a few months off to regroup and write some new material.
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