(artists) Dhanji

Hailing from Amdavad, GJ, Dhanji is building a base at the forefront of the Indian avant-garde. Shaking things up with his untouchable style and the...

(artists) DJ Cheeba

DJ Cheeba is hailed as one of the most progressive audio visual artists around today and has found an audience world wide with his unique style of...

(artists) Ikonika

Ikonika has taken enormous strides since her classic 2008 single 'Please' (Hyperdub). Following the release of her 2010 debut album 'Contact, Love,...

(artists) Nash

Starting at the age of 16, Nash JR has come a long way since his early days of spinning old skool Hip-Hop on basic pioneer decks. The 23-year-old...

(artists) Riz MC

Riz MC is a British-Pakistani actor, rapper and activist. As a rapper, he is a member of the Swet Shop Boys, earned critical acclaim with the hip-hop...

(artists) Top Billin

In 2006 Top Billin made themselves a household name in Helsinki with bootleg remixes, hot mixtapes and a monthly club night that was packed every...

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(artists) Zen Death Squad

A union of three talented young producers, Zen Death Squad are a phenomenon waiting to happen. Armed with laptops, synthesizers and drum machines,...

(directory) Disrupt

Though only two editions old, Mixtape’s Disrupt has earned a reputation for celebrating forward thinking electronic artists through bookings like...

(directory) Orbs Cure Labs

Orbs Cure Labs is a collective and record label pushing experimentation, exploration and expression in the South Asian urban sonic realm. A platform...

(news) Dhanji Releases His Earnestly Awaited Debut Album 'Ruab'

Among avid listeners of Indian hip-hop, Dhanji's 'RUAB' has been as awaited as any work by the long-standing heavyweights of the genre – a feat...

(news) Meba Ofilia, Khasi Bloodz, Stunnah Beatz & More Come Together To Represent Northeast India's Rap Talent On 'All Stars'

Never short of talent to contribute to the country's music, the North-Eastern region of India, which often doesn't get its due in the contemporary...

(news) Khalnaïk Takes Inspiration From Ramayana & Tarot On 'The Loser Lover Leela'

Mumbai-based artist Yash Naik aka Khalnaïk takes inspiration from Ramleela, the dramatic stagings of Hindu deity Rama's life which take place in the...

(news) Jacob Collier Commits To Return To India For A 2-City Tour

While the return of live music events still hangs in the balance for India, Jacob Collier has announced his commitment to perform in New Delhi and...

(news) Together For Tomorrow: Music Businesses Raise Funds For Performance Industry Workers

Within weeks of the coronavirus infection reaching India, its live music industry faced a landslide of cancellations. Months later, the pandemic...

(news) Exclusive Premiere: 'What If There Were 360 Days In A Year' By Iah

What if a year wasn't 365 days long, but only 360 days? Or a day not 24 hours but 22, or 25 hours long? Would that change anything in our lives or how...

(news) Shan Vincent de Paul Creates Visual Mixtape In Response To Global Pandemic

Toronto-based, award-winning Tamil rapper and director Shan Vincent de Paul first came to our attention with the intriguing 'Mrithangam Raps' series,...

(news) Kampire Announces 2-City India Tour

Ugandan DJ and promoter Kampire has just announced shows in Mumbai and New Delhi on March 20 and 21. Asserting herself as an integral member of Nyege...

(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) Garden City Movement Heads To India For A 4-City Tour

Tel Aviv-based electronic indie pop trio Garden City Movement will kick off the coming month with a 4-city India tour, playing Pune, Mumbai, New Delhi...

(news) Listen: ‘Inqalab’ By Ahmer

Nearly four months after the release of his seminal debut album ‘Little Kid, Big Dreams’ with Sez On The Beat, and three months after the Indian...

(news) Jacob Collier Heads To Mumbai For His India Debut

Two-time Grammy winning composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier has just announced a show at Mumbai’s National Centre for the...

(news) DJ Champion To Tour 3 Cities In India

East London beatsmith DJ Champion will be making his debut in India next month, with three shows between August 7-10, courtesy Mixtape. It's...

(news) Orbs Cure Labs & Coven Code Collaborate For Fortnightly Mixtapes

Delhi-based femme collective Coven Code will be joining forces with Orbs Cure Labs, a Pune-based collective and soon-to-be record label established...

(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) A Library, A Time Machine, A Contact Zone: Natasha Noorani's Peshkash Maps Postcolonial Pakistani Music

Back in 2014, a bunch of rare Films Division-era films resurfaced online with Alexander Keefe’s 'Sarkari Shorts', calling my attention to the...

(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) 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...

(features) 2019 In Review

2019... the year Donald Trump was (almost) impeached, the year Greta Thunberg woke the world to the climate crisis, the year citizens of India came...

(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) Wild City Singled Out: May 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) 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) 2018 In Review: The Artists That Defined The Alternative Music Sphere In India

2019 has barely taken its first steps, and there have already been a host of exciting releases, events and music festivals. Before we launch...

(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) Lady Leshurr: Flying The Flag For UK Hip-Hop

Lady Leshurr has been spitting bars since the age of 6. At 14, she released her first mixtape and since then has been slowly climbing the tumultuous...

(features) Straight From The Sahara: Tinariwen, A Nomadic, Tuareg Band

“The Tuareg used to be people living free in the Sahara without borders,” reflected Abdullah Ag Alhousseyni. He’s the acoustic guitarist and...

(features) Honesty and Authenticity: Telefon Tel Aviv Lives By These Virtues

“I’m just trying to stay honest with the stuff I’m making,” says Joshua Eustis, better known as Telefon Tel Aviv. “I just try to think about...

(features) Indian Music Industry: A Female Perspective

Let’s get it out of the way early: the music industry, like every other in our patriarchal society, is sexist. We all know that. It’s especially...

(features) In Profile: RATATAT

Evan "E*Vax" Mast and Mike Stroud are RATATAT – the two-piece electronic and instrumental duo who are headlining the third edition of Magnetic...

(features) Opinion Roundup: Skrillex In India

Not many people in the international music industry tend to polarize opinion as much as ‘EDM’ megastar and key figure in the international brostep...

(mixes) Wild City #176: Dolorblind

If you've ever wondered what it's like to live inside the mind of Dolorblind, we suggest you plug in your headphones (and strap in a metaphorical seat...

(mixes) Wild City #172: Masta Justy

As one of the co-founders of India’s first DJ collective and music agency Bhavishyavani Future Soundz, Jatin Vidyarthi aka Masta Justy has not just...

(mixes) Wild City #154: Anu$hka

Anushka Menon is a photographer by profession. She has however been associated with the Indian electronic music scene since 2015 - first performing...

(mixes) Wild City #116: Bruno Belissimo

You can’t help but move to Italian-Canadian DJ, producer and multi-instrumentalist Bruno Belissimo’s disco heavy Mix #116… Part of a family of...

(mixes) Wild City #110: Ramsha

Toronto based Pakistani musician Ramsha Shakeel’s mix for Wild City features an evocative range of ambient, neoclassical and drone tailored to melt...

(mixes) Wild City #106: Epic Empire

Wild City Mix #106 comes from French hip-hop and electronic music producer and DJ Epic Empire. Parisian future bass artist Epic Empire a.k.a. Fabrice...

(mixes) Wild City #105: Karl Hungus

Reunion Island selector Karl Hungus delivers a diverse selection of funk for Wild City Mix #105. Resident DJ at Sakifo Musik Festival and one of...

(mixes) Wild City #091: SMPRSN

Sri Lanka’s SMPRSN (alternate alias Daffy Maestro) is the next selector to contribute to our growing music division here at Wild City. The Kandi...

(mixes) Wild City #090: TMPST

Wild City #090 comes from Karachi based electronic producer TMPST – a genre bending artist who’s been at the forefront of the Pakistani scene for...

(mixes) Wild City #077 - Blent

Aniket Vidyadhar a.k.a Blent is a Mumbai based music producer and game designer. Having only stepped into the production limelight in the last year,...

(mixes) Wild City #078: Monsoonsiren

20 year old Bangalore based producer Nathan Menon’s collaboration with Tom Day resulted in what is possibly the single most beautiful track released...

(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 #067: Top Billin

It was in the year 2006 that Top Billin Soundsystem first made themselves a household name in Helsinki with bootleg remixes, mixtapes and an...

(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 024: Sulk Station

""Bangalore based duo Rahul Giri and Tanvi Rao currently make up one of the country's most interesting contemporary acts, Sulk Station. Their debut...

(events) DJ MoCity & Mr Shef Codes

Mr Shef Codes Mr Shef Codes aka Shefan Lantra's passion for hip-hop and R&B stretches all the way back to middle school, where he made bootleg...

(events) Vh1 Supersonic 2019

Bonobo Live Known by his stage name Bonobo, Simon Green hails from Brighton, England. Starting out with a trip-hop aesthetic, he has since branched...

(events) Oskar Offerman, Chhabb, Nida & Bhavishyavani Crew

Oskar Offermann Oskar Offermann has been a regular at all clubs worth their salt when it comes to finest music programming (Robert Johnson , Panorama...

(events) Mike Shannon, Bullzye & Bhavhishyavani Crew

Image by ZoeNoblePhotography Mike Shannon A true “DJ’s DJ”, he has won legions of fans and the respect of his peers alike for his deep crates...

(events) Sampa The Great & Prabh Deep

Image: Barun Chatterjee Sampa The Great The rise of Sampa the Great has been spectacular to watch. Having previously released two mixtapes in 'The...