News

FEMWAV & GMI To Host Free Production, Recording/Performance & Management Workshops With 'Organic Support Program'

FEMWAV, the platform and online blog dedicated to collectivising and distributing skills to empower female and non-binary art practitioners, recently announced its programme 'Organic Support Programme' or OSP. As part of the programme, FEMWAV will offer 8 modules over a 6-month interim period,...

Borders Unlocked: Mumbai's Regenerate & Karachi's Demo Music Room To Celebrate Independence Day Together

On August 14 and August 15, Pakistan and India will celebrate 75 years of their Independence...

Adi Represents Americanised Hip-Hop With '6AM In Bombay'

After returning from New York, where he was studying music, to his hometown Mumbai, Adi has just...

Ambient, Downtempo & Tabla Combine On 'Naad' By Goya & Aditya Dutta

After steadily growing his compact body of work of often tranquil melodic tracks and excursions into...

J Block Assert All Their Colours With Debut Mixtape 'Kho Kho'

In the sometimes seemingly oversaturated space of desi hip-hop, New Delhi collective J Block and its...

Features

My First Release: Disco Puppet

“I realised a little later that we got fucked over because we made some stupid decisions in distribution. There were some people that e-mailed us called CD Run, and, at that time, I confused it with CD Baby [a leading music distribution platform]”, Shoumik Biswas aka Disco Puppet reminisces...

Compassion, Collaboration & Acceptance: How Music Collectives In Asia Are Forging New Paths For Artistes

The creation and nurturing of a ‘community’ through music collectives have given rise to some of the most powerful social and cultural movements in South Asia. While some strived to construct a space for artists beyond the conventions of mainstream culture, others offered a safe space for...

Mixes

Wild City #213: Okedolo

Earlier this year, the Twitter electronic music world chortled around a "Two Guy Theory", which is...

Wild City #212: Deep Brown

Few sets invite one into a trance as quickly as Deep Brown's Wild City mix, which instantly whirrs...

Wild City #211: Smokey

Few in the country have embraced the canon built upon the quick energetic hits of the breakbeat as...

Wild City #210: Sunara

In the progressive, tech and deep house-dominated nightlife of Sri Lanka, Sunara Jay stands out by...

Wild City #209: Antariksh Records

Based out of Delhi, Antariksh Records has quietly but strongly left footprints in the global...

Wild City #208: Maddeof

Entering right behind the endless lo-fi hip-hop YouTube streams and as a deluge of uploads on...