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Get To Know: Elle Shimada

Get acquainted with Elle Shimada, the Tokyo-born, Melbourne-based artist exploring the meaning of home with luminous electronic beats and shimmering vocals

For Elle Shimada, the concept of home is ever-changing; it is the current which flows through her debut album, ‘Home ≠ Location’, released on Australian...

Iceboy Violet press shot

Get acquainted with Iceboy Violet, the Manchester-based artist infusing their take on hip-hop with emotional realness

“I was really into J Dilla and Madlib — like, really, really into them,” says Iceboy Violet. “I want to make something as special as...

Grey Code

Get acquainted with Grey Code, the Metalheadz affiliated, London-based producer synthesizing new styles of drum & bass

In just over half a decade of releasing music, Grey Code has racked up an impressive catalogue. The UK producer has credits for the likes...

DJ Couza

Get to know Bloemfontein, South Africa's DJ Couza, the DJ and producer fusing deep house with indigenous African sounds

We’ve said it many times in these pages, but it bears repeating — some of the most soul-stirring house music around is coming out of...

Dar Disku

Get acquainted with Dar Disku, the London and Bahrain-based collective and label refashioning buried disco gems of the Middle East and North Africa

No one does disco quite like Dar Disku and their secret, it appears, is in the dig. From the souqs of Turkey to the bargain...

Get acquainted with Akiko Haruna, the Brighton artist who's searching for connections through filmic sound design, pop and hardcore fusions

Get acquainted with Huey Mnemonic, the Detroit-based artist producing futuristic, funk-filled techno

Get acquainted with South London's Fred again.., the Brian Eno-mentored producer creating emotive, collaborative dance anthems

Get acquainted with West London DJ and radio host, Ellie Prohan

Get acquainted with the Stormzy-backed teenage star of Ghana’s Asakaa drill scene, Yaw Tog

From: Barcelona, Spain

For fans of: Plant 43, E.R.P, Mikron

Three tunes: ‘Verd Mar’, ‘Curie’, ‘Observer Effect’

From: Los Angeles

For fans of: John Talabot, Prins Thomas, Young Marco

Three tunes: ‘Pacifico’, 

A couple of years ago, most people knew Cooper Saver as a promoter. His Far Away parties, which he’d largely been throwing in warehouses and...

From: Strasbourg

For fans of: Alix Perez, QZB, Icicle

Key tunes: Skylark feat. LaMeduza ‘The Chase’, ‘Space Walk’, Skylark, Grey Code & Ewol ‘Daydreaming’

Pinching apples from a farmer’s tree, ringing a doorbell then running away, putting cling-film on a toilet; these are typical traits of your common skylarker...

From: Vienna, Austria Via DRC

For Fans Of: Frederic Robinson, BOP, Mystic State

Three Tracks: ‘Run Ames (Feat Robert Manos)’, ‘Yore Dub’, ‘Krieg’

Kimyan Law defies simple description in more ways than one. An exiled child of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s long-running, ever-intractable civil war, his...

From: Berlin via Sweden

For fans of: Karen Gwyer, Dorisburg, Suzanne Ciani

Three tunes: ‘Hassel’, ‘Loss of Traction’, ‘Kungsvagen 44’

Techno artists aren’t generally known as early risers, but Johanna Knutsson doesn’t conform to the usual late-night stereotypes. During the week, she’s in bed by...