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"Bangalore based duo Rahul Giri and Tanvi Rao currently make up one of the country's most interesting contemporary acts, Sulk Station. Their debut album ‘Till You Appear’ is a brilliant specimen of trip-hop and downtempo, beautifully laced with Indian classical influences. Placed side by side with their more contemporary sounds it’s a listen that manages to create a despairing timelessness." - Abh...

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"With rhythm in her soul and funk in her attitude, Kini has been steadily creating waves within India's house music scene." Starting off as resident DJ at Poison in Hyderabad, Kini quickly rose through the ranks to open for acts such as dOP, Dale Anderson, Anil Chawla, Djuma Soundsystem, James Harcourt and Jody Wisternoff. A long time coming, we've managed to persuade Kini to lend us an hour of he...

2008 was the year Frederic Berger and Patrick Buck started their marvelous career as Kaiserdisco, tying together over 10 years of experience within the music industry. A duo that's not so easy to pin down, Kaiserdisco combine with exceptional style and grace both the warmer, melodic and deeper sides of house with the more heated and groovy, pounding drum patterns of minimal and techno. Within the...

When you think of hip-hop, house and dubstep, Newcastle, in the North-East of England, isn’t exactly the first place that comes to mind. London, Chicago, New York, Detroit, Paris and Manchester are amongst the few cities that are credited with making huge contributions to the heterogeneous catalogue of electronic music we have at our fingertips today. It's sometimes very easy for national music me...

Switch Bitch has been gestating within various bedrooms and laptops for just over two years. Considering the matured sound you're about to hear over the next 12 minutes, it's hard to believe. What began with the shared passion of two people sitting around a laptop and making electro has over time evolved through sonic-scapes and grown as if by mitosis into a four piece counter-culture. "Now we hav...

Andy Vaz hails from Düsseldorf, Germany and is the man behind Background Recordings, a label internationally acclaimed as being instrumental to what people refer to today as minimal techno. In March 2007 Vaz added to his list of musical ventures by launching a new label called “YORE”, the focus of which will be on authentic old school Detroit and Chicago house sounds. His latest release, Straight...

"There's no innate skill involved in quality drum and bass production beyond a surge of all nighters and dying city lights." says Mumbai based producer and DJ, Ox7gen. Self taught in the studio and now quickly gaining a reputation as the rising star of Indian drum and bass Ox7gen a.k.a Aditya Ashok is surely one to watch in 2012. In a career spanning just over a year, this self-proclaimed drum and...

The legendary drum and bass duo Concord Dawn a.k.a Evan Short and Matt Harvey is quite simply one of the most recognised names in drum and bass history. After bursting onto the international scene in early 2000 with their "Best Electronic Album" and "Best Independent Release" Disturbance, the duo rocked the foundations of drum and bass into a movement that eventually would see the genre move into...

With the sudden undeniable presence in India of glitch hop/electro hip-hop or whatever else you want to call it, we thought it only fair to get a mix from the genres fastest rising stars. A union of three talented young producers, Zen Death Squad are a phenomenon waiting to happen. Armed with laptops, synthesisers and drum machines, their diverse and explosive live sets are becoming notorious with...

Earlier this year we interviewed Ghettophiles, one of the leading players for the juke/footwork scene's movement and home to some of the most recognised names in juke, footwork, ghetto tech, dub, moombahton and Chicago house. One of these names is Starfoxxx a.k.a Erik, Dave and Fabe, the production trio based out in Chicago. Together they bring a real grassroots sound to moombahton while at the sa...

Teddy Boy Kill is a self confessed technologic "beat punk" consisting of Ashhar Farooqui, Samrat Bee, and recently added drummer Akshat Nauriyal. Otherwise known as Toymob, Audio Pervert and Tahska. Forget everything you know about Indian electronica. "Rising out of the usual clutter and clam of electronic music in India", Teddy Boy Kill has forced itself to develop an edgy, moody and distinctly s...

Last week, we let you know about burntprogress, a music focused agency and network whose project 'CDR - The Nights Of Ideas and Tracks In The Making' has been the bedrock for music producers and artists alike. In fact, it was through the same initiative that BBC Radio 1 (now XFM) DJ Mary Anne Hobbs first heard the sounds of Floating Points, SBTRKT, Bullion and Paul White. The project itself has tr...

Hailing from the German club scene this bass heavy collective is a creative alliance made up of London-born, Sri Lankan songwriter and front woman Sasha Perera alongside two beat freak multi-instrumentalists; Teuton Robot Koch and Tel-Aviv born Oren Gerlitz. The versatility of their music and sheer energy of their live performance has led the band on an unrelenting trail across 5 continents, playi...

Brooklyn Shanti otherwise known as Shanti or the1shanti is an MC, producer, composer and DJ based in New York City. Bengali in origin, decidedly hip-hop in orientation, Shanti is currently a man possessed with the idea of bringing true hip-hop to India, "the most populous democracy in the world.” Shanti's story began at the young age of 12, where he set off on his journey by supporting hip-hop pio...

Born out of a shared vision of musical inspiration, the duo of D-Nox & Beckers has, over the last 6 years, firmly entrenched itself into the landscape of the worldwide electronic community With more than a quarter century of combined DJing and producing experience between them,Christian “D-Nox” Wedekind and Frank "Beckers" effectively merge a seasoned musical grounding with a dynamic creative spar...

Jazzsteppa are an internationally acclaimed dubstep outfit based out of London and Berlin who combine cutting-edge digital production with acoustic instruments. Fusing hard line rave sounds with dixieland, jazz and blues, they've managed to create a unique brand of dance music, widely acknowledged by the global scene as truly innovative. Credited as the first dubstep act to perform and record with...

Following his interview with us last week and the launch of his debut EP Incu-Bass, we're thrilled to have B.R.E.E.D follow this up with an exclusive mix for WIld City. Incu-Bass EP is the heaviest project to come out of the B.R.E.E.D camp this year, following his Top 10 Beatport success in January of 2010. The debut EP is the initial release of B.R.E.E.D's upcoming stream of releases following th...

The mix as expected does not disappoint, incorporating an exhilarating mix of different moods, tempos and styles of bass music. From Nicolas Jaar through to Mount Kimbie, it even manages to squeeze in a bootleg of Wicked Games by Chris Issak without losing the plot. We imagine that we'll be hearing lots more from BLOT! in the months to come, for now however they appear to be operating at the top o...