Image by Yaseen Brink / Copyright Prolific Media The music of Amapiano is infamously distributed to its followers via grassroots modes, most popularly via WhatsApp groups. This bypassing of conventional or commercial methods of distribution is somewhat synonymous with the spirit of the genre, and largely the dance music culture
Image by Steve Gullick It’s criminal that Hybrid aren’t as instantly recognisable as their peers such as Aphex Twin or Massive Attack. The group’s acclaimed debut Wide Angle revolutionised the landscape of U.K breakbeat. It was an astute keying into the futurist anxieties of the turn of the millennium with
Image: Nyege Nyege The music East Africa refers to as ‘techno’ stands in stark contrast to what we understand as techno in the Western canon, taking the form of mind bending abstract sound collages and works of noise art. Like it’s Western counterpart, East Africa’s techno is very much a
When electronic music composer Nicolás Jaar and jazz multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington unleashed their collaborative project Darkside onto the world in 2013, they changed the game. It was the sort of musical meeting of minds that felt entirely serendipitous and to this effect, a bit precious. The fuzzy psych rock of
Image by Elif Demiroglu Electronic music exists as a testament of man turning toward the machine to process things that are deftly human. This is particularly true for moments of feeling that transcend what the human body is capable of expressing; those gargantuan emotions that feel paradoxical in scale to
Image courtesy LEITER records F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm are no strangers to collaboration. The renowned German experimentalists have consistently returned to each other time and again, feeding off one another’s respective points of view to produce increasingly mind-bending records. Though, it’s not hard to imagine the meeting of such
Image by Louie Banks Late last year while the world was deep in the throes of lockdown, German photographer, musician and multi-disciplinary artist Wolfgang Tillmans released his video work, Can’t Escape Into Space. Filmed on an empty dance floor on location at a venue in the iconic LGBTQIA+ haven of
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Image: Melody As Truth The word that comes to mind when considering the body of work from Los Angeles native Suzanne Kraft is evolving. The producer and multi-instrumentalist has always maintained an aura of L.A cool melancholy, first introduced on 2011’s disco influenced Green Flash EP, then extracted and isolated
Image: Hyperdub The West has always had an unhealthy appetite for Asian aesthetics. Perhaps due to its stark contrast to European austerity and chaste rigidity, the aesthetic conventions of Japan have become some of the most appropriated and fetishised. It’s even given rise to an entire counter-culture of non-Japanese people
Image: Hyperdub Harnessing the potential for sound to literally shape space is a rare skill, yet it’s one that seems to come organically for London based composer, producer and DJ Lee Gamble. As a sonic sculptor, Gamble creates the sort of work that feels three dimensional in its scope; pieces
