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Issa Maïga
Even though he’s barely 20, Issa Maïga can’t be considered a beginner in the world of electronic music. His passion for rhythm has indeed been growing since he was a young kid. From the drums he started playing when he was 8 to his sister’s electronic music that his house resounds with, rhythm literally leads his life.
At the age of 15, Issa goes to his first I love Techno. There, he quickly loses all his friends and spends the night alone in the techno room, fascinated by what he hears. He’ll discover later that this music was in fact Dave Clark or Carl Craig.
He then finds the right people to teach him DJing techniques and mainly to help him discover influences from Detroit or Chicago House that still inspire him nowadays.
Still very (too) young, Issa goes out to the Fuse (Brussels) for the first time. Once again, he quickly gets addicted to the place and sound and regularly goes back to discover labels such as Perlon, Dial and artists like Horror Inc. (Akufen, Marc Leclair), Isolee or Lawrence, which will influence him a lot. It’s there as well that he’ll be discovered by Pierre (Fuse, Lessizmore) and given a tryout for Lessizmore’s 5 years birthday in 2010. Tryout that will reveal itself successful as Issa is nowadays a resident DJ for this label and can so give a full go to his passion: sharing the rhythms that have been fascinating him since his childhood.
