It’s strange to think that Sega Bodega released his debut album Salvador just last year. The Irish producer has otherwise made a name for himself, mostly behind the scenes sculpting the sonic aesthetic for artists like UK rapper Shygirl. For her Bodega would pull together influences from house, techno, Eurodance
Image: Hyperdub Mapping the rise and subsequent evolution of London DJ and producer AYA is to map the journey of an artist blossoming into their identity. What began as the subversive and performative DJ act LOFT on the UK’s queer underground has shapeshifted into this harbinger of the future; an
Image: Incienso We’re not going to lie, this was solely intended to be a review of New York producer Anthony Naples’s latest album, Chameleon. But as fate would have it, lo and behold the arrival of Club Pez, his latest EP. Both are released on his label Incienso. So now
Image: Houndstooth Lotic, the moniker of Berlin based American electronic music artist J’Kerian Morgan, is a term used to refer to any kind of moving water ecosystem. From rivers to brooks, the lotic ecosystem is any aquatic habitat that is naturally nuanced in the way that it supports life. It’s
Image: Awesome Tapes From Africa To say that South Africa may be experiencing a cultural Renaissance may not be completely unfounded. From the meme sensation of Jerusalema to Beyoncé dressed by Rich Mnisi, South Africa’s pop culture has never felt more prevalent in the first world. And with the success
Pigeonholing the sort of music that elusive English producer Shackleton creates toward any sort of categorisation is likely a futile exercise. While the Woe to the Septic Heart! founder’s early work slips neatly into the breaks and bass cannon, it’s his later offerings that are more difficult to pinpoint. His
Image: Björn Holzweg Nairobi born and Kampala based producer Freddy Njau, aka Slikback, has slowly been infecting club music with his abrasive and entirely future focussed sound over the course of the last few years. His burgeoning influence rides the crest of the wave of interest in the electronic music
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: Ninja Tune In a year when dance music was filled with more longing and ruminating on states of isolation than ever before, it’s interesting that Armand Jakobsson, or DJ Seinfeld, should release an album that finds him basking in the glow of contentment. After all, Seinfeld was largely at
Image: Sam Rolfes “The Chromatica remix album is so f*cking fuego music is life.” With a single tweet in early August, Lady Gaga sent pop music into overdrive. Until that point, the long-rumoured remix album had been the stuff of legend and sketchy insider information, promising a resurgence of Gaga’s
