With an ever-expanding record collection that means he’s as skilful playing house and techno as he is garage and grime instrumentals or more experimental fare, his talent for unearthing vintage obscurities should have gifted him an honorary archaeology PhD. Spending the rest of the night on the dance floor just underlined the fact that Marea never just talks the talk.īen UFO is no longer as unidentifiable as his name suggest, although still flying - this time around the world to headline the largest clubs and festivals around.įounder of Hessle Audio alongside Pangaea and Pearson Sound, he’s responsible for releasing cuts from Joy O, Objekt, Beatrice Dillon and Batu, while his DJ sets and Rinse FM appearances have introduced a whole generation to their all time favourite records. On the cusp of fame, an early evening set on the main stage worked through Wham!, The Rah Band and classic funk, culminating in a crescendo of jacking house. This year is her third time at Field Maneuvers, and her 2015 debut was a-had-to-be-there moment. Off the dancefloor she’s tirelessly shone a light on house music’s roots amongst queer and POC communities and used her position to support those marginalised by the scene’s commercialisation, drawing particular attention to the extreme obstacles that women face. With an encyclopedic knowledge of dance music garnered from years at the club coalface, and a career that stretches from selling rave mixtapes across the Midwest, to programming Smart Bar, to touring the world with her We Still Believe party, her sets move fluently from EBM to disco, breakbeat to acid. A figurehead for the true spirit of Chicago, the artist known as Marea Stamper has stamped her mark on the world’s consciousness. We haven’t done the poll yet, but we can categorically state that The Black Madonna is now (probably) bigger than Madonna, and deservedly so.
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