MBODJ

“If it doesn’t exist, make it yourself”. Senegalese-Spanish artist Maguette Dieng embodies this ideal. Based in Barcelona, she DJs and produces as MBODJ (pronounced em-bodge), but also curates, educates, and promotes both solo and with Jokkoo, the afro-diasporic collective she co-founded in 2017. 


Championing artists from Africa and the African diaspora alongside leftfield sonics from around the world, her sets embrace fragility, complexity and the tension of transitions: from gqom and jungle and footwork to noise. 

Although she’s played everywhere from Mutek and Sónar to Boiler Room and Nyege Nyege in Uganda, her most crucial contributions have been local. With Jokkoo, she’s created critical alternative spaces for underground culture in the city, bringing radical artists from around the world to Barcelona and providing a place for local artists to develop, whilst also linking local actions with global issues from Palestine to Sudan.