TMPST

TMPST Serves Dark Industrial Techno On 3-Track EP ‘CLXXXVI’. 

In his first release of 2022, the Karachi-based producer Asfandyar Khan dropped a three-track EP under his electronic alias TMPST last week, released via Dutch imprint Otomo Trax/Obscuur...

Pulpy Shilpy, Frame/Frame & TMPST Featured In Compilation Series ‘88 - Double Happiness’

Pune’s Gowri Jayakumar aka Pulpy Shilpy, New Delhi’s Nikhil Kaul aka Frame/Frame and Karachi-based Asfandyar Khan aka TMPST feature, alongside other left-of-centre electronic artists from...

‘Chalo’ Highlights South Asian Music With Compilation Featuring Riz Ahmed, Kavya, Ahmer & More

‘Chalo’, the multi-tiered work by journalist Dhruva Balram (who previously released charity compilation ‘aaj kal’) and Assam-born US-based artist Jitwam and his label The Jazz Diaries, just...

Asfandyar Khan Makes His Techno Debut As TMPST With ‘Inside Your Head’

“Made during COVID-19 as I was losing my mind, and I felt making this EP was one way to regain some of that sanity,” says Asfandyar Khan to introduce ‘Inside Your Head’ his latest work as...

Monophonik, Noni-mouse, YNZN.P & More To Perform For The 3rd Chapter Of ‘Wild City: Together’

Within weeks of live gigs being snatched away from us by the coronavirus crisis and its associated lockdowns, we launched ‘Wild City: Together’ to bring together the music community of India and...

Qilla Records Present An Immersive Ambient Offering With ‘Forte, Vol. 7’

Qilla Records has just released the seventh edition of their obscure electronica compilation ‘Forte’, dropping the label’s most ambient-rooted offering till date. Over its four tracks,...

Listen: 'Unravel' By TMPST

Asfandyar Khan is a name that crops up often and repeatedly if you dive into the Pakistan music scene. Not only is he one of the older (in terms of his presence and involvement in the scene), more...

Dissolving Cultural Dilemmas: Boxout.fm To Host Live Stream From Pakistan

As part of an ongoing attempt to enable fluid exchange of music within the subcontinent, ‘Boxout in Transit’ will collaborate with Karachi Based collective and record label Foreversouth Music on...

Listen: ‘everything, at the last minute’ By Asfandyar Khan

After a brief hiatus of silence from Pakistani producer Asfandyar Khan, he returns with a 6-track EP. Known primarily as TMPST, it's in fact been his ambient-soundscape moniker that’s constantly...

Listen: ‘Collections Vol. 4’ by Forever South Music

Karachi based collective Forever South has just released its fourth compilation ‘Collections Vol. 4’, which showcases music from some of Pakistan’s foremost electronic artists. The album...

Wild City Singled Out: Q1 2020

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

Asfandyar Khan: How To Build A Musical Home In Karachi

Islamabad likes to run slow. But having grown up in this city, musician Asfandyar Khan, who is also the artist behind electronic moniker TMPST, didn’t quite register the pace. This changed when he...

Wild City Singled Out: January 2017

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

Pakistan - Through The Eyes Of TMPST

The alternative cultural space in South Asia is tiny, fragmented and limited to only a couple of metropolitan cities in an area that otherwise boasts districts larger than most European countries, and...

Emerging Pakistan: Forever South

If there’s something distinctly lacking in Pakistani indie/electronic music, it’s the presence of labels, promoters or clubs. It’s a vacuum that no one’s particularly tried to step up and fill...