international news _ 3rd October, 2006
Agoria’s Criminal Convictions
Text by Jonty Skrufff (Skrufff.com)
French electro-tech star Agoria chatted to Skrufff this week about his
upcoming new artist album The Green Armchair and revealed that his long
standing commitment to techno comes from being arrested as a young DJ.
“At the beginning of the 90s the French government viewed techno like
terrorism, they busted loads of parties and tried to jail DJs and promoters
and anybody involved in putting on parties. I was arrested a few times by
the police during those days and that’s one of the reasons I remain based in
Lyon and am still trying to build the scene here, step by step, to make
techno as popular as it can be,” he explained.
Like everyone else I started playing in small venues and clubs and
organising my parties myself with some friends and I was arrested two or
three times, though the police never charged me,” he recalled.
“Nothing bad ever happened to me, it was actually normal for the cops to
arrest a DJ playing at 8 in the morning. To them we were considered
dangerous,” said Agoria.
“In fact, the police were actually really good with us, they thought we were
cool and they only arrested us because they had to do it, because of the
Government orders.
That’s why I’m nowadays militant about the music and for the electronic
scene in general, because of this repression.
“Today I’d say it’s completely obscene because the government organises
massive free parties in very bad locations with 50,000 people who are all
really completely fucked up,” he added.
“There’s no sense in that- I think society is stupid.”
Agoria- The Green Armchair is out shortly on PIAS Recordings.
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