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So how did you get started in music?

“I think I’ve never get started in music, not for the moment.”

And that’s just the start of it. Kania Tieffer doesn’t make music that you listen to. She probably doesn’t make music like anything you’ve ever heard. The French electro ingénue makes music that sounds like someone singing karaoke along to a wordless bleeps piped through a first generation Gameboy – one of those old grey bricks bigger than a VHS tape, not the fancy touch-screen DS jobs that the kids have these days. And that’s not me trying to spin out a clever metaphor either, or working with some inventive invective – her tunes really do sound exactly like that. You’ll have to go listen to see what I’m saying.

By day, Kania goes by another name and works in a medical centre for drug addiction. By night she stands on stage wearing red hotpants playing a dementedly-electro cover of ‘Hounddog’. After an exchange of a few confusing emails (after all, Kania’s first language is French, and she was replying to me in English), Music Towers managed to pin her down for some questions.

“I use a stage name because my real name is not stylish at all. And when you search it on Google, you find the website of a medical center taking care of junkies based in Brussels. It’s less funny, isn’t it?”

Having a sense of humour – albeit one that’s fairly impenetrable from anyone on the outside – is part and parcel of the Kania Tieffer package. And as far as the name itself?

“That’s a very nonsense game with words and letters that only French people can understand (not always). German people found another funny meaning. I didn’t expect that.”

That’s sums up Kania’s attitude to music – she’s certainly got a different approach than most. Her low-key approach extends to how she writes her songs.

“The procedure is: I buy 4 red bulls, I stay one hour long in front of my computer with my keyboards and guitar, doing a little bit of loop « bricolage » and after this hour, I finish the song, I stop and turn on the TV to watch a stupid Belgian soap. Or I go to the supermarket ‘Delhaize’ to buy some good meat.”