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From: Los Angeles, CA

Three tunes: ‘Hourglass’, ‘Right All Night’, ‘Like XO’

For fans of: Billy Kenny, Claude Vonstroke, Green Velvet

J. WORRA has come a long way from her small town Midwestern roots. While her blue-collar peers were busy playing sports, Jamie Sitter spent her adolescence teaching herself...

Championed by Uganda's Nyege Nyege festival, and now breaking ground across Europe, Nairobi-born, Kampala-based Slikback blends footwork, grime and more to electrfying, unique effect...

Africa has been getting a lot of attention within the Western dance music sphere over the last few years, with the rise of reissue labels such as Awesome...

From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

For fans of: Chris Liebing, Charlotte de Witte, Robert Hood

Sairen, aka Renske van Kollenburg, has immersed herself in the Dutch dance scene since her min-teens. “At 15 or 16 I started going to gabber raves for a...

From: Los Angeles, CA

For fans of: Madnap, Elohim

Three tunes: 'Love Cemetery', 'Fractions', 'Peaches'

Cray's music is as striking as her cascading locks of two-toned hair. The online videogame-streamer-turned-singer-songwriter-producer flits through indie electronics, pop and dance productions with ease...

Meshing hard techno and gabber beats with pan-African drum rhythms and pairing IDM electronics with juke house, Nkisi is a truly unique talent defying genre classification...

“They are sculptures from the Congo kingdom,” says Melika Ngombe Kolongo, describing the origin of her artist name, Nkisi. “They’re from pre-colonial times, for ritual...

“I wanted to try and capture all elements of the clubbing experience without being too obvious,” says Bruce, the DJ/producer behind Hessle Audio's latest LP, ...

From: BOW, EAST LONDON

For Fans Of: SILK ROAD ASSASSINS, DARKO, MSSINGNO

Three Tunes: 'Ascend, 'Wrong One Feat. Prynce Mini', 'Harca'

‘Icy cold’, ‘glacial’, ‘crystalline’; these are the sorts of descriptors used for Last Japan’s sound, which takes its cues from the grit of grime, jungle...

Shy One is one of London's most versatile DJs, spinning everything from grime UK hip-hop to classic house and beyond. We catch up with Mali Larrington-Nelson...

DJ and producer Shy One has never been afraid to be different. Her artist name might suggest a timid nature, but her approach to dance...

FROM: Bristol, UK

FOR FANS OF: Silent Servant, Young Echo, December

THREE TUNES: 'Bring Back Fives', 'Celebrate The Last 30 Years Of Human Ego', 'High Waisted'

Robin Stewart and Harry Wright have built a reputation on their vivacious, fast-paced live shows contorting industrial techno with noise and plenty of distortion. But...

FROM: RUSSIA, BERLIN-BASED

SOUNDS LIKE: OBJEKT, COSMIN TRG, ACTRESS

THREE TUNES: ‘I CAN MEND YOUR BROKEN HEART’, ‘CAMILE FROM OHM MAKES ME FEEL LOVED’,
‘I...

We check in with the Phonox resident...

FROM? KARRATHA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
SOUNDS LIKE? ANTAL, MR BONGO, JACKMASTER
THREE TUNES? FIRST TUNES COMING MAY 2017

“THINK RED DIRT, bull ants and scorching heat!”...

Here's everything you need to know about the Japanese superstar DJ...

FROM: JAPAN VIA BERLIN

SOUNDS LIKE: RICHIE HAWTIN, MARCO CAROLA, DUBFIRE

If there’s one thing Japanese DJ Hito knows — it’s Sake. It was her...