Image: Dias When approaching Space Afrika’s latest album and first for label Dais, it’s necessary to understand that this work is informed foremost by the complexities of displacement and Black British diasporic identity. But then Space Afrika have always focalised their work on these sorts of convolutions, arriving at genrefluid
Image: Smalltown Supersound In his seminal work Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, the queer theorist José Esteban Muñoz examines queerness as a mode of futurity, distinguishing it from heteronormative futurity as defined by the drive to reproduce and suggesting that rather, queer futurity is concerned with
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Image render by Atelier Markgraph Frankfurt is set to open a new museum of electronic music in October. The Museum of Modern Electronic Music, or MOMEM, will be a space that honours the history of electronic music while looking ahead towards its future. MOMEM is planned to feature several sections
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Image by Sabrina Feige From retro-futurist remixes to a single produced by some of the most innovative minds in contemporary music, we roundup our favourite releases of the week. In no particular order: Alex Virgo / Purple Disco Machine: Playbox (Alex Virgo Remix) Purple Disco Machine has become synonymous with
Image by Emilie Pria 2012 was an important year for electronic music. The renewed interest in the sound of underground club music had brought about the birth of modern EDM and the superstar DJ, and by then this interest was reaching its peak. Also in 2012, a new music broadcasting
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Image by Arthur R Severio Anyone who has been to a bathhouse knows it’s an experience that lingers long after the steam of the sauna has dissipated. Simultaneously liberating and degrading, it’s entering into a microcosm where the rules and standards of the world outside no longer apply. To this
Image still from music video by Mará, Chamberlain Zhang & ChengCheng New York DJ and producer Maŕa is known for her shadowy, experimental sets of cosmic dance bangers. An icon in her underground scene, Maŕa is the founder of the label and collective Cultivated Sounds, which was established in order
Image by Dan Medhurst From audaciously explicit hip-house to ambient chamber pop, we roundup our favourite new releases from some of electronic music’s iconic and emerging female artists. In no particular order, here’s what we’ve had on repeat: Azealia Banks – F*** Him All Night Azealia Banks is one of
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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
Image by Ishita Singh Identity politics in electronic music have always been a bit skewed. What began as a form of black queer expression evolved into the mainstream archetype of the cis-gender white male playing music for his ilk at the likes of Ultra and Tomorrowland. More often than not
