The needle rests on the furrow. It sputters but the voice is astonishingly pure. “It’s crazy, huh, the sound of 78 rpm records. These are records that have a limited lifespan: 100-150 plays. It’s all the prettier because it’s an ephemeral moment. »
Not dissatisfied with its effect, Djubaka. Smoker’s voice, big jokes, tattoos and favorites. Once you meet him, you don’t forget him. As much for its look as for its warm side. In his office at the Maison de la radio, one wall is covered with CDs, the other with posters and collages, one of his other passions. Vinyl records hang from the ceiling. “Yes, yes, they are real, we can listen to them. »
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And so, on a piece of furniture, an antique gramophone that must be reassembled like a Traction of yesteryear. Djubaka has around fifteen of them, he even mixes with them! However, he does not have the soul of a collector. “I do regular sorting. What I haven’t listened to or read for five, six years, I get rid of. It allows me to move on to something else. »
A searching head, Djubaka dresses the waves of France Inter for twenty years. With his cracking nickname. “Djubaka and Julien are the same person but not in the same place. And when I make collage, I become Mr Djub. This is the advantage of having 3,000 lives. »
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“A job like this is the dream”
He got into radio by chance. Came to present, in 1993, the book Attitude rock’n’rollwith his partner Anne, they are both offered to write a chronicle. It will be under the name of Anne and Julien in the show Alternativesby Laurence Pierre, on Inter.
Journalist for New Mag and the Bayard group (Okapi, Phosphore), Djubaka makes documentaries for TV, freelances for RFInavigates between floors at the Maison de la radio. One day, in a corridor, he meets Éric Hauswald, music programmer for Inter. Il……
