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Organizers, DJs, establishment managers, night owls, observers… Every Wednesday, “Libé” gives voice to those who live for and through the night. Today, the programmer of Macadam, a techno club in Nantes.
She has sailed quite a bit since her first high school outings in Rouen night bars. In Nancy, during her studies, Anaëlle Saas first discovered techno parties in clubs, at the Ostra and the Totem in particular, before surveying with a collective of noise the squats of the Lorraine city, then the raves of the surroundings. Now at 28 years old, the night owl, also a DJ under the pseudonym of Aasana, provides programming for Macadam, a Nantes electronic club near the banks of the Loire, which took over from Club 25 six years ago. order: demanding and inclusive line-ups. A mission also at the heart of the intersectional collective Zone rouge which she co-founded with a friend, Soa, to promote minoritized artists in clubbing and prevent sexist and sexual violence in the festive environment.
Your definition of night
“The night allows us to embody a side of our personality that we hide during the day, it allows us to forget everyday life and let go. It is also a moment of meetings and sharing different from that of the day.
Your most memorable memory
“It was a Pornceptual [soirée techno queer, fétichiste et sex-positive créée en 2012, ndlr] at the Alte Münze in Berlin in August 2019. The place was beautiful, it was very warm and when you went down to the basement, you came to a cellar with stone vaulted waves. It’s a very kinky, but ultra-benevolent party, so people were really free to do whatever they wanted with their sexuality and sensuality. Everyone was wild and playing the party game. All that energy is what makes a party go or stay flat. But partying is also about bad experiences, like this time at a club in Nancy, l’Envers, where a guy started touching my buttocks while I was dancing. I started to confuse him, then he insulted me, put a pie on me and it ruined my evening. This kind of attack still happens too often to women and that’s what led me to create Zone rouge to fight against sexist and sexual violence in the festive environment. Among other things, we do training to make volunteers aware of how to react in the event of aggression, including racist or homophobic, and how to keep a party safe.
your fuel
“I’m not going to lie, when I go out, I drink. My little thing of the moment is the Menthe-Pastille. It’s a local peppermint liqueur and it looks like Get 31, but it’s very sweet. You dilute it with Perrier and ice cubes. In the summer, I’m more Ricard. And if I really don’t drink alcohol: a Club Mate.
your object
“My USB key that I have in my pocket in any circumstance, if there is a DJ to replace or an improvised before, and my little vial of poppers. It’s friendly when we all take a little (Laughs).»
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your next weekend
“On Saturday, I play in a squat for a Parisian collective, then I return to Nantes to do the Gloria, at Macadam. It’s a daytime party that we organize once or twice a month on Sundays with unknown or emerging artists and a few headliners, like this weekend the German DJ Gerd Janson. Doors open at 8 a.m. and it ends the following night around 3:30 a.m. We strongly advise people to come fresh, even if some obviously come after. But it’s not sold as such. It is first of all a costumed and spangled party, moreover we have a costume bar at the entrance.