Date: 22 November 2020

Location: Online

Current Obsession was entrusted with a delightful task of wrapping up this year's edition of NYCJewelry Week. For this project, we invited Barcelona based DJ TUTU to create a music track especially for NYCJW. 'The sessions of Tutu are odes to life, between pure adrenaline and the most genuine curiosity'. Her COxNYCJW session included sounds of jewellery-making by artists from across the globe: Agustina Ros & Giulia Vecchiato, Boris Bally, Carina Shoshtary, Chloé Valorso, Edu Tarin, IKIIKI, Julia Turner, Julie Faber, Kalkidan Hoex, Roxanne Simone, Nils Hint, Joy Bonfield Colombara.

Meet DJ Tutu.

 

Like windows that open to horizons both near and far, her sets run through the landscape with the same intensity that she lives other creative facets of her life. With a spectrum of sounds that range from bass house to cosmic trance, abstract grime, schizophrenic tribalism and acid techno, Tutu on the decks can go from underground dance to the most experimental sounds, which direct the feet and maintain the brain occupied with sensations that run skin deep.

 

Gemma Planell has performed under the Tutu pseudonym for a number of years, always displaying taste and personality, with her DJ sets putting into practice her idea of storytelling. Preferring to remain out the spotlight and away from media attention, she has forged a personal style heard in clubs and festivals, with online recordings of sets and mixes for radios and magazines that demonstrate her unique talents.

Agustina Ros & Giulia Vecchiato

Boris Bally

Carina Shoshtary

Chloé Valorso

Edu Tarin

IKIIKI

Julia Turner

Julie Faber

Kalkidan Hoex

Roxanne Simone

Nils Hint

This project was produced on the occasion of NYC Jewelry Week and commissioned by Current Obsession.

 

The music track is an artwork (remix) that includes short samples from the following songs, as well as recordings of ambient sounds of jewellery-making by the artists mentioned above:

 

Language Has Failed Us (Dylan Henner Remix) by Eomac, Album Reconnect Remixes, Second Language (Tender Phonemes) by Minor Science, Album Second Language, Uni Sub (Fatima Al Qadiri Remix), by Alva Noto, Album Uni Sub, Balconies by Minor Science, Album Second Language, Devlish River by Proc Fiskal, Album HyperSwim, Negative Extasy by Toma Kami, Album Negative Extasy, Flee by Mechatok, D-medley by Fatima Al Qadiri, Album Genre-Specific Xperience, Crush by Laurel Halo, Album HyperSwim, Shadows to the Light by Zora Jones, Album Ten Billion Angels