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Many artists tell the same origin story — the one about that fateful night in their teens when they snuck into an illegal party and...

A clue to Laetitia Bech’s sound can be found in one of her early musical infatuations. Growing up in the southwest of France near the...

Dany Cabral Roças speaks four languages: English, Portuguese, French, and Spanish — or five if you count beats, the vehicle for expression he turned to...

Margaret Sohn, the producer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist who releases music as Miss Grit, grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, but attended college 500 miles...

From the kuduro of Angola to the cumbia of Colombia, the singeli of Tanzania to the mahraganat of Egypt, rhythms from across the world have...

The phrase ‘triple A’, long associated with ‘access all areas’, has taken on a different meaning, co-opted by an East Londoner with a penchant for...

With inspiration taken from his Egyptian-Australian heritage, Moktar’s music tells many tales. He first came to light via Mall Grab’s Steel City Dance Discs in...

When Andre J E. Sam-Sin, who produces and spins as DJ Sun, decided to celebrate the release of his third album ‘Loveletter: Red Hook to...

Mensa Ansah, the Ghanaian-British MC and beatmaker known as M3NSA, has been an active player in the music industry since he was 15. His production...

Since her early-’00s days as a student studying jazz at Trondheim Musikkonsevatorium in Norway, Anja Lauvdal has been involved in a head-spinning array of bands...

Heléna Thomson, AKA Heléna Star, is a true selector, with a passion for music that comes from the heart and nourishes the soul. It was...

From the outside, it would seem that Olivia Meek, the artist known to DIY dance and pop music aficionados as Regularfantasy, had a more productive...

“I struggle with this,” admits the DJ and producer Elizabeth Maniscalco when asked how she describes the music she makes as BRUX. “It brings me...

Southern Africa-born and UK-raised, Charisse C has been collecting the old and new sounds of her Zimbabwean and South African heritage for a while now...

If ever there was a name suited to 2022’s summer of record temperatures it’s TIBASKO, aka Hertfordshire-based duo Ken Petalcorin and Andy Bowden. Hailing from...

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...

It’s fitting that the title of Salamanda’s new album, ‘ashbalkum’, derives from a Korean phrase for the realisation that ‘reality’ is in fact a dream...

In 2020, if you were maxing out on DJ mixes in the Covid pandemic’s first wave, it would have been hard to miss Kirollus. The...

“Never!” AV beams when asked if he ever expected he would work on a No.1 album. It’s just a matter of days since Digga D’s...

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