The Capsule

We discuss why The Capsule skipped this past weekend’s £15k battle in London, then get into Jon Boogz on The Breakfast Club: is Michael Jackson or Chris Brown the better dancer? We break down isms vs execution, and whether the street dance scene actually values originality as much as it claims. Plus: Red Bull Dance Your Style World Final 2026 in Zurich and our advice to the competitors, AI creator...

We sit down with Montreal producer and DJ Shash'U at Urban Element Zone to talk about DJing dance battles. We get into what makes a beat battle ready, how he picks tracks to make a battle go off, swing and space in music, unreleased tracks vs familiar bangers, and coming up in the Montreal beat scene alongside Kaytranada and Lunice. Follow The Capsule: https://www.instagram.com/thecapsule.ldn/ Fol...

Open styles vs All Styles, ASAP Rocky telling a breaker to move at his concert, Doyah's 29 million view round, and why Brotherhood dominated IDL but lost the championship to GRV.We start with the open styles vs all styles debate and why it's on event organisers to define their categories, then review Dance Your Style USA: staging, why live streams need to mic the crowd, and why Kidd The Mo...

Red Bull Bring The Vim 2026, the Russia debate, Misha Gabriel on the dance industry, and Jungle's Sunshine visual album. We get into Red Bull Bring The Vim's fourth edition at BOXPARK Croydon, its first international lineup with One Dialect, Outsiders, +32 and La Revolution, and whether concept battles actually help storytelling or whether the Afro music carries it alone. We break down the...

Five years of The Capsule and a solo episode catching up on everything happening in the street dance scene right now. Luke breaks down the Raygun documentary and what he would have done differently with that worldwide platform, why the bullying conversation still matters even when you disagree with someone, and whether the doc owed anything to the breaking scene at all. Then it is Summer Dance For...

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In this episode of The Capsule, recorded live at Beyond the Moves Experience in Paris, we sit down with Taylor Yudat - one of the most respected voices in French Electro dance - to break down the culture from the ground up. Taylor takes us through the birth of Electro in Paris, the Tektonik party scene, clubs like Metropolis and Mix Club, and how the Technoparade pushed the style from nightclubs i...

On this episode of The Capsule, recorded live at Beyond The Moves Experience in Paris, we sit down with Lumi, co-founder of the influential Paris Hip-Hop crew Sons of Wind. We dig into how Sons of Wind formed out of the Paris battle scene, why they moved beyond battling to build a full crew philosophy, and how deep study of hip-hop's musical roots (Detroit, New York, LA) led them to develop th...

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Luke pulls up outside Mustafa's house for a catch-up, breaking down the week's biggest talking points in street dance. Timestamps:1:16 – Drama of the Week: A new UK event offering £15k prize money, organized by someone with a controversial past. We unpack accountability, transparency, and what "earning a second chance" actually requires.20:11 – Storyboard P falls asleep mid-judging: respect for hi...

Geni and Luke are back in the 'studio' for a catch-up episode covering some of the big topics in street dance right now. In this episode: Breaking down Summer Dance Forever's new "Warrior Edition" format in partnership with Snipes: How the bracket actually works and what it means for the battle scene. The Laura Nala "Two years before you battle" controversy: Unpacking the backlash and why context...

This week we're at Existe Festival in Monthey, Switzerland with Laura Nala, one of the most influential women in French hip hop. Laura started battling at 10 years old, came up under P-Fly, Yugson and Niako, toured with Swaggers, and now creates full-length theatre works with her own company alongside raising two kids. We talk about being the "youngest OG" of the Paris scene, whether...

Lil Buck, one of the world's most recognised Memphis Jookin dancers, sits down with The Capsule to break down everything: Where Memphis Jookin really came from, the underground rap scene that birthed it, how he went from watching DVDs in Westwood to performing at Lincoln Center, and why protecting the culture matters more than ever. We get into:The origins of the Gangsta Walk & how Jookin...

Sophie May joins The Capsule to talk about judging a recent battle and what she really thought of the UK hip-hop dance scene. We get into why originality in dance battles is disappearing, copying culture in street dance, defending your message, women in hip-hop, diversity in judging panels, and how analog photography became her creative escape from the dance world. Sophie May is a hip-hop dancer,...

We're on a train from Switzerland after covering Existe Festival in Montreux — a three-day street dance festival in the Swiss Alps that's only in its fourth edition and already one of the best events in Europe. We break down the choreography competition, the 2v2 all-styles final between Darren, Willis, Miel and G (one of the best finals we've ever seen), and debate what actually makes...

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