Zokhuma

Image credit: Anushka Menon PHOTOGRAPHY

The 24-year-old maverick Arman Menzies has a mask for every occasion. His infectious energy and familiar music sensibilities has a way of putting any audience at ease. Well known in cult progressive metal circles in India for his earlier work songwriting and playing guitar for Goddess Gagged before moving on to study music production in the UK, he’s already performed in places like Croatia, Netherlands and Sri Lanka under his new electronic moniker 'Zokhuma' while cherry-picking his way through local gigs as well. As he gears up to launch his first EP and live tour in early 2017, connecting the dots seems impossible when everything is happening at once, but it doesn’t make it any less fun to try.

News

VH1 Supersonic Reveals Full Lineup Featuring Tyga, Bob Moses, Anyasa & More

Returning to Pune's Mahalaxmi lawns on February 24-26, music festival Vh1 Supersonic has recently disclosed the second half of its lineup. The 3-day event will be headlined by British singer...

Aurora Halal, DVS1, Kiss Nuka, Matrixxman & More To Play Far Out Left

Mumbai's boutique electronic music festival Far Out Left returns after 4 years on February 10 and 11 to the city's Todi Alleyway. The 2-day event will bring back some of the bigger international...

Distortedeco Revitalizes Old Mumbai Ice Factory With Dana Montana, Blot!, Likwid & More

Recently formed Mumbai-based music and art collective Griptape announced their first-ever event entitled Distortedeco. The 2-day outing will take over a 144-year-old ice factory in Mumbai's Ballard...

Taba Chake, Yung Raja, Kayan & More Announced For NH7 Weekender In Delhi-NCR, Kolkata & Pune

After shifting online in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, India's popular music festival NH7 Weekender just announced the lineup for its return to on-ground events. Instead of consolidating massive...

KRUNK Launches Record Label With Compilation ‘Kaala Khatta – Flavours Of The East’

One of India’s premier electronic live music agency KRUNK has just launched its record label ‘Krunk Kulture’ with a compilation featuring the likes of Zokhuma, Oceantied, SUCHI, Kini Rao,...

Transhuman Collective Announces Zokhuma, Cursorama, Ash Roy & More For Immersive Music & Arts Festival ‘UNRATED’

Multi-disciplinary immersive experience design consultancy and production company Transhuman Collective has announced a 2-day real-time live 3D virtual fundraising festival called ‘UNRATED’, which...

22 Producers, 22 Samples, 2 Days: Indian Producers Participate In A Beat Challenge For Charity

For years, the independent music community in India has been accused of being apathetic, apolitical and seeped in privilege, ignorant to the tumultuous origins of most music they consume and emulate....

East.Wav: Kolkata To Have Its First Electronic Music Festival On A Ship

On Sunday, March 8, Kolkata is going to be witnessing its first, very own electronic music festival, East.Wav. To top things off, it also happens to take place in the middle of the Hooghly river, on a...

Listen: 'TRICE' By Zokhuma

“Are our lives just a sum of memories made? Windows of experiences made measurable by a steady cycle of sunrises and sunsets. Almost at random, some are rendered into permanent recordings in our...

Dreamstates, OX7GEN, Rafiki, Tarqeeb & Zokhuma Join Forces For Quarterly Residency At antiSOCIAL Mumbai

antiSOCIAL Mumbai has announced a quarterly residency with five of the city’s most exciting DJs who collectively go by the name ‘Redline DJs’. The crew features bass-heavy dance music purveyor...

Features

Wild City Singled Out: June + July 2020

Wild City handpicks the most interesting tracks released by artists of South Asian diaspora in our monthly feature - Singled Out. If you’d like us to listen to your music, send the relevant info to...

Review: ‘22-2 Volume 2’ Galvanises India’s Budding Producers

One of the hypothetical and mostly unrealistic scenarios in my head about the end of the coronavirus crisis involves the declaration of a fixed date to officially mark the end of the pandemic and its...

A Comprehensive Guide To Levi's Music Week 2019

Levi's Music Week 2019 is looking to be quite the insightful week. Taking place from October 11-18 at Levi's Lounge in Mumbai, the multi-faceted event is bringing with it a slurry of activities,...

A Comprehensive Guide To The Music At Magnetic Fields 2018

Our favourite weekend of the year is closing in. With just a week to go, Magnetic Fields is right around the corner, and it's going to be chock full of art, activities and, of course music. There's...

1beat1week: In Conversation With Oceantied

Back in late November, Ketan Bahirat otherwise known as Oceantied, announced on Facebook that he was starting a mini-project titled 1beat1week. As the name suggests, the producer would create and...