News

'BASS BOSS': Rana Ghose's Latest Documentary Spotlights DJ Khobir & Bengal's Dek Bass Culture

Rana Ghose, the head honcho behind leftfield music platform REProduce and a filmmaker who has previously been one of the foremost people to feature subjects like the then-underexplored legacy of Charanjit Singh, has just debuted his new film 'BASS BOSS'. The short documentary, made with support from...

Call For Applications: Studio Monkey Shoulder Returns With A £10,000 Grant To Support Music Scenes

Last Year, the Scottish whiskey brand Studio Monkey joined hands with prominent selector Gilles...

Pranav Nigam Debuts Lani.Akea With Ambient Album 'Songs To Sleep To Vol. 2'

New Delhi's Pranav Nigam puts out his first release as the ambient act Lani.Akea with the album...

FILM Homages Venues antiSOCIAL, JUNA & BudXLoft With Namesake 3-Track EP

New Delhi artist Sanil Sudan aka FILM (who also produces under the moniker Tyrell Dub Corp) just...

Punch.m Asserts As The New Folktronica Producer On The Block With 'Solora'

After early lo-fi flips, disco tributes, piano pieces and finding his voice in folktronica with his...

Features

Review: Gauley Bhai’s Sophomore Album ‘Sunbari’ Bridges Community Roots With Sonic Refinement

It’s remarkable that in the age when artists are constantly advised to punctuate every few months with a release (and it seems like most big names do) to keep bending audience and industry infrastructures in their favour, Gauley Bhai held back their sophomore album for nearly 6 years, offering...

Review: 'Kali' Sees Ditty Blending Protest With Intimate Truths

Evidently, it’s tricky to carry the torch from protest-driven beat poetry-inspired folk singer-songwriters like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan without sounding like a tribute to the said acts and their times – evident from the ever-refreshing list of acts that fall in that trap. Aditi Veena aka Ditty...

Mixes

Wild City #247: Roan Sable

Roan Sable's Wild City mix is the kind that makes listeners reach for Shazam time and time again....

Wild City #246: EveryNowHere

When T.L. Mazumdar aka EveryNowHere started the podcast series Tapasya Loading in 2020, one of his...

Wild City #245: Pale Blue Dotter

With field recordings of birds and frogs stitched between transient meanderings of synths and...

Wild City #244: SourFunk

Bangalore's Vaibhav S Narayan aka SourFunk's Wild City mix is for the point where the dancers for...

Wild City #243: Zequenx

Born in Kashmir and operating between Goa and New Delhi, Zainab Wani aka Zequenx is in the midst of...

Wild City #242: DJ Pants

Anyone regular to the upbeat lighthearted dancefloors in New Delhi over the past couple of years has...