News

Magnetic Fields Announces Rival Consoles, Vieux Farka Touré, Barker, Karshni & More For Nomads 2026

Last year, Magnetic Fields announced its departure from its flagship grounds of Alsisar, where it had hosted 10 editions since 2013, to start a new chapter in Rajasthan's Abheygarh Khetri with 'Nomads'. The lineup has just been announced for Nomads, which takes place on February 13-15. The 3-day...

'Eleven Dance' Strengthens Fursat FM's Singular, Accessible Ambient Voice

Understatedly, Rohit Gupta aka Fursat FM (who also performs as part of Peter Cat Recording Co.'s...

Pluto Monkey Delivers Organic Jams Over House Beats On 'Benaulim Progression/Slow Shimmy'

With a 2-track release, New Delhi's Antariksh Mohapatra aka Pluto Monkey homages the Goan village of...

Karshni Tackles Sexual Coercion Head On With 'Malapropism'

Karshni has been unveiling her upcoming album 'Buck Wild' piece by piece, starting with the abstract...

Run it's the Kid Return As A Duo After Nearly 10 Years With 'Hourglass'

10 years ago, New Delhi had a bubbling four-piece outfit built around the joint penmanship of...

Features

Review: On ‘Babylon’s Camp’, Swadesi’s BamBoy Keeps Dubstep Political But In The Indian Context As Kaali Duniya

Dubstep has always been political, and so has Tushar Adhav. The Mumbai-based producer, known as BamBoy when he is providing the beats for the likes of socio-conscious hip-hop collective Swadesi, becomes Kaali Duniya when he hovers around 140BPM for dubstep and grime – which is what he does on...

Review: 'The Mumbai Exchange' Presents A Love Letter To 80s/90s Indian Disco-Pop

Australia's Ziggy Zeitgeist (the drummer behind Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange) and the UK's Lewis Moody have followed up 'The Napoli Exchange', their debut album as EX GENERATION, with the new LP: 'The Mumbai Exchange'. The pair set up base at Mumbai's Island City Studios and called upon...

Mixes

Wild City #258: Vishal Unni

Though Vishal Unni's Wild City mix lands in the techno territory, it is hardly about slamming drums...

Wild City #257: Nida x Choksi x Rafiki (ParaDisco)

Our latest Wild City mix from the dancefloors of ParaDisco, the party series founded by Mumbai's...

Wild City #256: EBITDA

After closing for the likes of Joy Orbison on nights like The Warehouse Project and going B2B with...

Wild City #255: Femme Music

Musician Sanoli Chowdhury and her manager Vinod Gadher (with past experience managing Talvin Singh...

Wild City #254: Jay Drive

One of the steadily rising electro and house selectors of the country, New Delhi's Jaidev Kaushik...

Wild City #253: UKato

New Delhi's UKato distills his usual fare of breakbeats (which has got him to some of the genre's...