Truancy Volumes

London-based artist Mr Assister has been a steady force in the city’s underground for the past decade. Whereas he’s known to some as the drummer in James Blake’s touring live band, his own output as a DJ and producer has seen him carve out a lane on the deeper, more hypnotic edges of prog, tech […]

A great crew of like-minded thinkers and tastes can really shape you as a DJ, and for Zeynep that crew has been Harmony Rec, the beloved group and label that has shaped a generation of Prague nights at Ankali and beyond. What began as a short-term residency with the collective quickly turned into something stronger, […]

A city can shape more than just a person, it can define the trajectory of an entire musical career. For Aiden Francis, Manchester did exactly that. After moving there in his early twenties, he immersed himself in the city’s underground queer scene, discovering the music, energy, and community that would help define his sound at […]

There are moments when you encounter a voice so alluring, so emotionally complex, that it fundamentally shifts your understanding of music. For countless listeners, that voice belongs to james K—an artist and composer whose deeply poetic sensibility bridges worlds between tumblr fantasies and avant-garde aesthetics, LiveJournal-style expressiveness and shoegaze nostalgia. Over the past decade, this […]

Over the past few years, Biocym has been quietly but powerfully shaping a sound rooted in hypnotic techno, weightless ambiance and fine-grained detail. His path into electronic music started over a decade ago, sparked by early exposure to deep techno and later catalyzed by formative releases from Hypnus Records. A move to Milan to study […]

A south-London native, Box5ive came up on a diet of FWD>>, Fabric excursions, and the spiritual gravity of early dubstep, citing DMZ, Skream, Benga as early coordinates for a deeper kind of bass music initiation. Deep diving further into electronic music he later veered into the more emotive  side of UK electronica, devouring ambient through […]

With a string of deeply textured releases on labels such as like Animalia, Salt Mines and Pure Space, Zara has spent the last two years ascending into a sphere uniquely her own. Her 2022 Reverie EP, released via Andy Garvey’s Pure Space, leaned into ambient mutations and IDM-adjacent introspection, while her Animalia outing layered rhythm, […]

A few weeks ago re:ni posted a photo on her stories of a record shop shelf at Rubadub, with the labels section neatly divided into Hessle Audio, Timedance, Blank Mind and re:lax. It’s a small but telling moment of hardwork for Lauren Bush, whose imprint, co-run with Laksa, has quietly cemented itself alongside UK dance […]

In a musical landscape where production often leans toward formula, Time Cow moves with deliberate purpose, simultaneously honoring and reimagining Jamaica’s rich musical heritage. As a core member of Equiknoxx, he helped introduce the world to Kingston’s experimental dancehall scene, but his solo work reveals an artist operating with even greater conceptual freedom—methodically deconstructing tradition […]

DJ Spit is the kind of artist where you’re immediately pulled into their orbit. Known for his fast paced, genre fluid approach, the Berlin-based DJ and producer has been whipping up high-voltage sets between bass, breaks, techno, house, and the obscure outer realms of club music for a good while now. Whether locked into a […]

Sleep D stand as pillars of Melbourne’s underground, their distinctive sound forged in the suburban fringes of Frankston and now resonating across global dancefloors. The duo of Corey Kikos and Maryos Syawish craft electronic music that defies easy categorization—hypnotic basslines and propulsive rhythms providing the foundation for explorations that merge the mechanical with the mystical. […]