(artists) Romare

Archie Fairhurst, known as Romare, wears his love for all to see – in fact, he takes his very name from it. Having studied African American Visual...

(directory) For The Record Music School

For The Record is a school in Gurgaon focusing on DJ-ing and music production. Offering a place to network and learn from accomplished tutors as well...

(news) Owlist Tempers His Easy Listening Style With Unease & Melancholia On ‘Amoeba’ 

Jaipur-based hip-hop producer and finger percussionist Owlist recently unveiled his newest album titled ‘Amoeba’, released via Third Culture...

(news) Differed Records Assembles Artists From Melodic Techno & Deep House For Second Compilation

Bangalore-based label Differed Records has just released their second compilation 'Underground Variants', continuing to realize the label's aim of...

(news) Rudy Mukta Continues Her Ascent With The EP 'broke my slumber'

Few artists can claim to have the steep rise during the past two years as Bangalore-based talent Rudy Mukta. The story goes that the young talent had...

(news) Listen: Releases By iyer, Krameri, Angad Berar & More

‘A Broadcast, Underwater’ By Angad Berar Angad Berar channels the tranquil headspace he has been taking respite in to escape from the...

(news) Listen: Releases By Joshua Singh, SURII, Aeon Waves & More

‘Holocene’ By Aeon Waves After creating tracks with motifs from Indian folk music or soundtrack otherworldly galactic journeys, Kanishk Budhori...

(news) dotdat Drops His High-Octane Debut EP ‘Subtrap’

Hard-hitting techno can very much be like a strong cup of coffee – it jolts you awake, getting your blood and some adrenaline pumping to put you...

(news) Listen: New Releases By Parekh & Singh, Aditi Ramesh x Tre Ess, Hanita Bhambri & Sabu

The global outbreak of COVID-19 has the world resigned to their homes, fraught with concern and anxiety. These are uncertain times we find ourselves...

(news) Wild City ‘Together’: Mentoring, Conversations, Skill-Sharing & Performances With Sandunes, BLOT!, Arjun Vagale & More

The coronavirus pandemic and the necessary global lockdown has brought many lives and industries to a standstill, while subjecting all of us to an...

(news) Wild City To Host Listening Session With Seasonal Affected Beats

For our first Listening Sessions in 2020, we are showcasing the upcoming EP ‘2°’ by Seasonal Affected Beats, the trans-media electronic project...

(news) The Live Room To Host Sampling Workshops Next Week

New Delhi-based music production and electronic music performance educational institute The Live Room has just announced workshops on sampling, which...

(news) Releases You May Have Missed: Disco Puppet, Yung.Raj, Arjun Vagale & More

The year has barely started, and Indian music producers are already releasing music faster than we can keep up with. There were a few singles and EPs...

(news) Listen: ‘Triptower’ By Ash Roy & 8-Bit Culprit

Kolkata musicians Ash Roy and 8-Bit Culprit have joined forced to release their latest EP ‘Triptower’ – packing together psychedelic and acid...

(news) rRoxymore Announces 3-City India Tour & International Synth Day Meetup

Montpellier-native, Berlin-based DJ and producer Hermione Frank aka rRoxymore has just announced a 3-city India tour that will see her perform live...

(news) A Brief Guide To BUDxMumbai 

BUDxMumbai is all set to take over Mumbai’s Mehboob Studio from 23-24 March 2019. The 2-day festival will celebrate India’s emerging music...

(news) First Listen: 'noni-pop' By Noni-mouse

After a year-long stint at the Nimbus School of Recording & Media in Vancouver, Radha Priya Gupta is back in her homeland. Now based in Mumbai,...

(news) dotdat Announced As One Of The Winners Of Beatport’s Beats In School Competition

Pune based DJ and producer dotdat has been selected as one of the winners of Beatport's global Beats In School competition. The year-long initiative...

(news) Indie 101: A Guide To The Independent Music Industry In India

Indie 101 is a book written by music entrepreneur Ritnika Nayan. Her aim with the book is to make the independent music space in India an easier place...

(news) First Listen: 'slowdowngf' by Profound

Delhi-based producer Profound has just put out the second single, ‘slowdowngf’, from his upcoming EP, ‘fre$h.’ The track, reminiscent of...

(news) Listen: Disco Puppet Releases Sophomore EP ‘Spring’

Musician and producer Disco Puppet a.k.a. Shoumik Biswas (Space Behind the Yellow Room and Monkey in Me) has just released a new EP called...

(features) 2022 In Review

2022 – the year that the world seemed to finally emerge out of the nightmare that was the COVID-19 pandemic. The year wasn’t without its tragedies...

(features) An Unlikely Marriage: Indian Classical Music’s Century-Old Flirtation With Jazz

I was recently asked if there was jazz in India, a question related to my life experience of 5 years living there. I received the question with a...

(features) 2020 In Review

To fully grasp all that the year 2020 entailed, it’s important to briefly reflect on how things were at the start of it. India was seething with...

(features) The Evolution Of Sri Lanka's Alternative Nightlife

In 2018, popular British-Norwegian EDM artist Alan Walker graced Sri Lanka for a performance. The country’s foremost alternative electronic music...

(features) Spotlight: Pagal Haina – The Indian Label Connecting Prateek Kuhad To Lifafa

Pagal Haina? Crazy, right? The inception of the artist development agency and label which has cultivated the likes of Prateek Kuhad, Rounak Maiti and...

(features) A Guide To Hot Chip In 7 Songs

Hot Chip have always been a mix of contradictions. The British group have remixed Kraftwerk and New Order, as well as Lizzo and Katy Perry, yet would...

(features) A Comprehensive Guide To The Music At Magnetic Fields 2019

The music lineup at Magnetic Fields Festival is bigger this year than ever before. Not only does the festival have a vast array of art and experiences...

(features) Wild City Singled Out: September 2019

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...

(features) A Comprehensive Guide To Music Festivals In India

Over the last decade or so, new music festivals of all styles and formats have sprung out of India’s transforming cultural landscape. To help you...

(features) Ami Dang Translates Folklore With A Heady Spin Of Sitar And Synthesisers On 'Parted Plains'

Ami Dang might not remember, but in 2011, during an interview with Baltimore Sun, she inadvertently predicted her music career. “I’d love to do an...

(features) Wild City Singled Out: April 2019

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...

(features) 'I play jazz for fuck’s sake – it’s revolt music': Tarun Balani

The reason Tarun Balani is a jazz drummer and composer ultimately boils down to a technical error. Roughly 14 years ago in New York City, technology...

(features) #Winning: In Conversation With Su Real

Su Real’s recent win at Amazon’s Prime’s Original reality show, ‘The Remix’ is somewhat of a head tilter for those of us who have associated...

(features) Khruangbin Aren’t Defined By Their Quirks

For most, Khruangbin are defined by their idiosyncrasies. Whether it’s their take on Thai-funk-rock or where they record music (in a barn in rural...

(features) Solace In Music: An Interview With Isolee

The first few years of Rajko Mueller, aka Isolee’s career were in a bubble. It was a small, enthusiastic scene comprised of people who loved music....

(features) Politics and Music: A Look Into BFR Sound System’s Documentary

Convinced of the role music can play in political activism, Taru Dalmia had long dreamed of building a sound system - representing the very origins of...

(mixes) Wild City #158: Chrms

People really like to throw around the phase “age is just a number”. It is just a number, but when it comes to Veer Kowli, it's nearly impossible...

(mixes) Wild City #108: Ro.

Cotton Press Studio co-founder and one half of Nicholson, Rohan Ramanna – a.k.a. Ro., delivers a soulful selection of smooth R&B, hip-hop and...

(mixes) Wild City #087: BASSFoundation Roots

You’d probably recognise Taru Dalmia as the face behind popular ska/jungle/reggae/dub act - Delhi Sultanate and as a member of D&B and jungle...

(mixes) Wild City #074: Reji

It's Mixtaped! week here at Wild Cit and we're helping the head honcho celebrate. Tomorrow night, it would have been a year since the little 'micro...

(mixes) Wild City 031: Nitin Garg

Nitin Garg is a Delhi based designer and graphic artist who in his free time creates as he describes it, 'organic ambient soundscapes'. Influenced by...

(mixes) Wild City 022 & 023: Coma & Daniel Haaksman

So, India Goes 3D kicked of last week and carries on into New Delhi territory this weekend. Are you as excited about it as us? You should be. Not...

(mixes) Wild City 017: Andy Vaz

Andy Vaz hails from Düsseldorf, Germany and is the man behind Background Recordings, a label internationally acclaimed as being instrumental to what...

(mixes) Wild City 001: Dualist Inquiry Presents Dualism

Sahej Bakshi, a.k.a Dualist Inquiry, is first and foremost probably one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Aside from this he's also an extremely...

(events) DJ Brainwash

DJ Brainwash As a veracious professional, DJ Jay is ready to perform in every format, style ands at any venue with exceptional attention to detail...

(events) Far Out Left

Aurora Halal Aurora Halal is a producer, DJ and creator of Brooklyn’s Mutual Dreaming party series & the Sustain-Release festival. Shadowy and...

(events) Mount Kimble (DJ), Aux 88, BLOT! and More

Mount Kimbie (DJ Set) Mount Kimbie are the influential English electronic music duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos from London, UK. Over a ten...

(events) Kevin Saunderson, DJ Bone & MoBlack

Location: The Lalit Kevin Saunderson Kevin Saunderson is a ​platinum-selling​​ recording artist, DJ, label boss, festival promoter, ​true...

(events) Wild City Presents 'Selectors' #003: Record Store Day Fair

Artists Jonny Rock A mainstay in London's electronic underground music scene for nearly two decades, Jonny Rock has laid down tracks on some of the...

(events) Stimming, Monophonik, VRIDIAN, Dreamstates & Bombay Karma

Stimming Martin Stimming was born in Giessen, Germany. Playing various instruments like violin, piano and drums when he was 10 years, discovering...

(events) Stimming, Monophonik, VRIDIAN, Dreamstates & Bombay Karma

Stimming Martin Stimming was born in Giessen, Germany. Playing various instruments like violin, piano and drums when he was 10 years, discovering...

(events) Interstellar Funk & GIRLS NIGHT OUT

Image by Imke Lighthart Interstellar Funk Van Elden’s ascent in underground electronic music culture has not come as a surprise to those within...

(events) Interstellar Funk, Spacejams & NO RQST

Image by Imke Lighthart Interstellar Funk Van Elden’s ascent in underground electronic music culture has not come as a surprise to those within...

(events) Interstellar Funk & ALTERED

Image by Imke Lighthart Interstellar Funk Van Elden’s ascent in underground electronic music culture has not come as a surprise to those within...

(events) mad miran, ALTERED & more

mad miran Now based in Rotterdam (where she works at the respected Clone Records shop), mad miran is a DJ who bubbled up from Amsterdam's underground...

(events) Kidnap, SickFlip & Sixth Ocean

Kidnap Kidnap is a London based music producer and label head, in 2016, Kidnap launched 'Birds That Fly', a record label and nesting ground for his...