News

Stain Returns To The Smoky Space Between Dub & Club On 'Under The Influence'

New Delhi's Sourodeep Guha aka Stain recently put out a new EP entitled 'Under The Influence', returning with his club-friendly soundsystem culture-influenced musicality. But unlike many previous times where his work leans towards light-hearted expressions and kicking back with it, the new 4-track...

Digging In India & Songs for a Tired City Combine Modular Synthesis With Quirky Self-Help Tapes On ‘Feeling So Good’

I am generally wary of spoken word samples being thrown into musical work, as if the producer...

sudan Collaborates With Anoushka Maskey, Tejas & More On 4-Track Release 'pocket friendly: volume i'

After his debut album last year, Pritpal Sudan, who uses just his last name (stylised as "sudan") as...

Muse, Karnivool For Bandland; Monolink, Stavroz For Echoes of Earth – Both Bangalore Festivals Announce Their Lineups

Echoes of Earth has just announced the lineup for its next edition, which takes place at Bangalore's...

Ableton Launches India-Specific Pricing With New Updates Including Stem Separation, Splice Integration & More

Popular digital audio workstation Ableton Live has announced localised pricing for India, marking a...

Features

Review: ONNO Collective’s ‘20g’ Showcases India’s Experimental Fringe with Disco Puppet, Pardafash, Krishna Jhaveri & More

Through live events, releases and mixes, ONNO Collective has become one of the leading new platforms championing the leftfield musicians of India, and the 4th edition sees its annual compilation become more and more of a who's who of the genre in India. More starkly, with compilations often being...

"Speaking Back To History In Real-Time": Tarun Balani On How The India-Pakistan Conflict Weighed On His Album Release

When the Hindus from the Sindh region left their homes in the aftermath of the blood-soaked partition of India and Pakistan, growing concerned about their place in the effectively non-secular new nation they suddenly found themselves in, they weren’t just displaced from their homes but also from...

Mixes

Wild City #253: UKato

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

Wild City #252: Unnayanaa B2B Hamza Rahimtula

As a tag team digging through their combined vinyl collection, Unnayanaa and Hamza Rahimtula have...

Wild City #251: Rajah Betta

The influence of Bombay sometimes comes through gently included but obviously present samples likely...

Wild City #250: Stick No Bills

All around the world in dance music, the South Asian diaspora is carving a space for the culture...

Wild City #249: Paloma

In its first quarter itself, Paloma's Wild City mix connects the low-end rattling bass of Joy...

Wild City #248: Sheral

New Delhi DJ Sheral doesn't wait for a build-up on our latest Wild City mix, entering above 140 BPM...