ew people have had such a decisive influence on our conception of DJing in recent years as Derek Barbolla. Yet Barbolla himself is neither a DJ nor an artist. You could even argue that he isn’t even concerned with music at all. Rather, he deals with images and fantasies. In 2016, he placed Jérémy Souillart, aka Møme, on a tiny platform of the Eiffel Tower, so high above the rooftops of Paris that just watching it on Youtube could make you feel dizzy. Møme played his way through a set of rather restrained house music on keyboard, guitar and laptop. Feedback was euphoric and since then, Barbolla’s company Cercle has been taking its viewers on a weekly journey to the most beautiful places in the world, sonifying the planet’s cultural heritage with techno, IDM and occasionally neoclassical. The influence of these videos
