News

Bold Choices Lift SYEYL Above The Generic On Ambient–Dance EP ‘Mental Sunshine’

Returning for his 3rd EP 'Mental Sunshine', Hrithik Arora aka SYEYL continues to combine ambient and dance. It is a pleasant space to begin with. Synths, generative timbres and obscured samples reverberate, glitch and shimmer to intensities that engulf save for the moments of intended breakdowns....

NATE08 Mixes Pop-R&B Emotionality With House Grooves On Sophomore Album 'TWENTY SEVEN'

3 years after his debut album 'Furaha', Mumbai's Nathan Thomas aka NATE08 returns with a second...

Kumail Returns After 6 Years With New Single 'Darlin'' Via Tru Thoughts

Erstwhile Mumbai-based musician Kumail Hamid last released new music with his seminal R&B album...

A Standout Melody Marks Meewakching’s New Single ‘Fonder’

Meewakching, one of Manipur's present-day leading indie rock groups, just released their new single...

Mary Ann Offers Slick Hook-First Single 'Student of Love'

Mary Ann Alexander is somewhat on a meteoric rise on the back of prolific collaborations and...

Features

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...

Review: ‘Algorave India Compilation One’ Marks a Milestone for India’s Creative Coders

For about 7 years now, a thriving pocket of Algoravers has existed in India. For the uninitiated, since the beginning of the last decade and with roots far beyond, creative coders have gathered for events called Algoraves where they generate music and visuals live through coding. Enter one such...

Mixes

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...

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...