News

Ayush Sayalkar Creates Evocative Sound Collages On Debut EP 'till i see you'

ONNO Collective is a platform for music that's mostly described as "experimental", and the label's latest release 'till i see you', the debut EP by Mumbai's Ayush Sayalkar, is no different. However, this isn't a cacophony of noise or placating textures that stay in their comfortable diatonic...

Sid Praja Attempts To Mix Breakbeat & Activism On 'No more Genocide'

Jodhpur's DJ-producer Sid Praja has titled his latest track 'No more Genocide', offering it as...

Nisal Offers UK Garage Rooted In Sri Lankan Sounds On 'Sikuru Express'

After years of hip-hop beats, remixes, edits and flips, Singapore-based Sri Lankan producer-DJ Nisal...

Soara Homages Resilience Of Thought-Leaders With Bengali Heavy Metal On 'Bishad'

Comprised of guitarist Akhilesh Rao and vocalist Pritam Adhikary, who replaces Kartik Subramanian in...

'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...

Features

"This Is House Music for House Heads": Hamza Rahimtula Brings Rajasthan Folkstars To The Dancefloor — Without the Fusion

Hamza Rahimtula was cutting his teeth in the New York house music scene during his college years, delivering DJ sets alongside live instrumentalists (percussionist Frank Bambara being a notable collaborator) when he first thought of how “our own cultural sounds would fit in” with the music. Upon...

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...

Mixes

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...

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...