A rebel and a provacateur. One of the most provocative live performers, actually. Widely known as the member of Hype Williams, he explores post-colonialism, blackness, white culture, identity and topics of love, tropes and archetypes. Hazy sonics and darkened tones furnish the picture of Blunt as someone adrift, rootless, stranded blindly in a world. What […]
LA duo Nguzunguzu create some serious noise with their blend of stripped down riddims, tropical bass, sonar blips, and futuristic r&b. The duo, Daniel Pineda and Asma Maroof, are known mostly for their intense live dj sets, which genre hop from grime and r&b to zouk and cumbia. Maroof has also come to some fame […]
Jerry Paper is the sonic caricature of a New York-based musician Lucas Nathan. It represents a cartoonish vision of Self materialized through Jerry’s bizarre vision of pop music. Jerry is an 11-dimensional musical entity who occasionally inhabits the three-dimensional body of curly-haired Brooklyn busboy Lucas Nathan. That comes from the artist’s discomfort with the physical […]
Dan Bodan is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and producer living in Berlin. Recently released on DFA records. Presenting himself as a traditional pop idol, he deals with desire and loneliness within a very hyperconnected culture. Human desires and pleasures are reflected and refracted across technology’s screen. His choice of artwork betrays his deep-rooted connection to […]
Lucrecia Dalt is a Colombian producer and pop surrealist who deals in restless, cerebral electronics. Trained as a civil engineer with a specialty in geotechnics, Dalt’s productions chart the motion of geologic time in fits and bursts, lucidly rendering tensions and disturbance through a combination of acoustic and electronic sound, sampling, and traditional songwriting. Her […]
A Berlin based enigmatic duo. Produced Mykki Blanco’s hit “Booty Bamboo”, gained attention from the underground art world for a string of hyperglossy, aesthetically-thematic videos. Dancing to Amnesia Scanner, at least in public, is nearly impossible – it’s just too out there. Pursuing alternative to the stylistic traps of modern electronic music, they create sound […]
TCF is the moniker of Norwegian contemporary artist and musician Lars Holdhus (who managed to legally change his name to Aedrhlsomrs Othryutupt Lauecehrofn). He is at the absolute forefront of experimental electronic music in the last years. His work explores themes of code, cryptography and musical composition through the use of visual, sonic, built and […]
James Pants is the Stones Throw Records insider and the purveyor of the fresh beat, an early-1980s sound with influences from 1980s soul, electro boogie, early rap, new wave, and post-punk disco. He shared the love for the smooth vinyl sound and rare, oftenly severely vaporized, samples with his label inmates. In the past, James […]
Mica Levi or Micachu (born 1987) is an English singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. She is classically trained and is best known for her band Micachu & The Shapes and for experimental music in a variety of genres. Levi also composed the soundtrack to a science fiction horror art film Under the Skin. Most of […]