News

Skulk Introduces Her Sophomore Art-Pop Album 'Skin' With A Psychedelic Rock-Influenced Title Track

After sporadically offering off-kilter art-pop work for over half a decade, Katyayini Gargi aka Skulk joins the leftfield platform and label ONNO Collective for her sophomore album 'Skin', which she introduces with the title track as the lead single. The Goa-based visual artist and musician...

Stain Returns To The Smoky Space Between Dub & Club On 'Under The Influence'

New Delhi's Sourodeep Guha aka Stain recently put out a new EP entitled 'Under The Influence',...

Digging In India & Songs for a Tired City Combine Modular Synthesis With Quirky Self-Help Tapes On ‘Feeling So Good’

I am generally wary of spoken word samples being thrown into musical work, as if the producer...

sudan Collaborates With Anoushka Maskey, Tejas & More On 4-Track Release 'pocket friendly: volume i'

After his debut album last year, Pritpal Sudan, who uses just his last name (stylised as "sudan") as...

Muse, Karnivool For Bandland; Monolink, Stavroz For Echoes of Earth – Both Bangalore Festivals Announce Their Lineups

Echoes of Earth has just announced the lineup for its next edition, which takes place at Bangalore's...

Features

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...

Review: ONNO Collective’s ‘20g’ Showcases India’s Experimental Fringe with Disco Puppet, Pardafash, Krishna Jhaveri & More

Through live events, releases and mixes, ONNO Collective has become one of the leading new platforms championing the leftfield musicians of India, and the 4th edition sees its annual compilation become more and more of a who's who of the genre in India. More starkly, with compilations often being...

Mixes

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...

Wild City #250: Stick No Bills

All around the world in dance music, the South Asian diaspora is carving a space for the culture...

Wild City #249: Paloma

In its first quarter itself, Paloma's Wild City mix connects the low-end rattling bass of Joy...