Wild City

Every year, March 8 is commemorated as International Women's Day, a day dedicated to celebrating women around the world and their achievements. Since we don't think a single day in the year is nearly enough to celebrate the women around us, we're going to be dedicating the entire month of March to the immensely talented women in our music community and to spreading awareness about female represent...

New Delhi’s Nishant Mittal is a man of many hats: a sound artist working under the moniker PILLS, a vintage enthusiast and an ardent purveyor of India’s overlooked musical heritage in styles like psychedelia, funk, rock n’ roll and disco, which he is known to showcase through his role as a selector, radio host and vinyl-digging patron under the alias “Digging In India”. His love for the old and th...

Lacuna's collage of tracks, on our latest mix, throws unexpected benders at listeners, while maintaining a certain ambience; and it offers up some seriously underrated, lesser heard gems, but interspersed with tracks from veterans like Flying Lotus, Herbie Hancock, Mr Carmack or Dorian Concept. And that's what's so remarkable about the mix – it doesn't cater to any preconceived notions or paramete...

The first lady of Miami bass is an anglophile and resides in New York. As paradoxical as that statement may sound, it holds entirely true for Jess Gentile aka Jubilee. The Miami-born artist scaled parties all along the coast of Florida before she took the region’s sound with her to New York. By the turn of the noughties, Jubilee was running labels and parties in the vibrant scene of her newly adop...

Destiny’s Child, Beyoncé, Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Aaliyah – these are just some of the artists that feature on DJ Ishani’s mix for Wild City. In case it isn’t obvious already, Ishani’s mix is an ode to the girl-power that has dominated hip-hop and R&B charts, with an admitted bias towards the past, making it aptly suited for nostalgic high-school throwbacks.  The Mumbai-based DJ curated this c...

Wild City's latest mix comes to us courtesy Mumbai-based producer and @jwalaco co-founder Palash Kothari, also known by his moniker Hedrun. We're not quite sure where @Hedrun's set belongs. This set could be suited to: a community centre in Dombivali, the tent of a hippie discovering the wonders of Indian yoga and meditation (and drugs) in the 80s, at a kitschy post-modern party at a hipster apart...

Ethnic Indian percussions, contemporary vocals, African rhythms, dubby delays, fast-flow raps – Sourodeep Guha aka Stain weaves it all together for our latest Wild City Mix, connecting them with one single thread: bass. While low-frequency content is an ever-present element in electronic music, Stain doesn’t just use it as the foundational fabric, but brings it to the forefront. The main act, so t...

Yung. Raj hit us last year pretty much out of nowhere; his growth since has been nothing short of exponential. Since his debut EP 'Laced Loops', which he released in July 2018, the Hyderabad-based producer and beatboxer has released five EPs, two beat tapes, a slew of singles, played multiple shows, and landed up in festival lineups. But the most notable aspect of this trajectory has been his grow...

Wild City’s latest mix by Ishaan Gandhi, one half of Okedo, sets itself apart by inadvertently tracing, almost with an academic lens, the development of dance music. Presenting selections rooted in Brazillian music and Afrobeat in the first half, Ishaan gives insight into the influences that inform his ability to create percussive ambience. It’s the ability to translate off-centric rhythms to elec...

The influence of Japanese culture is something Tarana Marwah has kept at the forefront since the dawning of her moniker ‘Komorebi’ – naming her act after the Japanese word for ‘sunlight that filters through tree leaves’ in 2015. Four years on, Marwah is one of the leading figures amongst the emerging talent of India’s underground music.  Her amalgamation of downtempo electronica and jazz-infused R...

DJ, radio host and music critic Abhi Meer’s mix for Wild City might be our most dramatic one yet. Peppered generously with riveting moments, the mix is an auditory equivalent of a consolidated epic thriller. Abhi Meer has a reputation for approaching his sets with a research-like approach. Consequently, the boxout.fm regular has had the privilege of playing at club gigs, festivals and residencies...

It’s no enigma why heavyweights like Four Tet and Ben UFO count themselves as fans of East London DJ and producer DJ Champion. The Formula Records head honcho exhibits the unfaltering ability to be any party’s highlight every time he steps behind the decks. “It’s just about the sickest tunes we can play out and put out”, declared Champion as the vision behind his label – a platform that has (pardo...

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 belt) because you're in for quite the ride. Wild City's latest mix was compiled by New Delhi-based producer and graphic designer Rohan Sinha aka Dolorblind. Though it might not be entirely fair to call it a mix – a mixtape, or a collage of sounds mi...

Recordings from our 3rd edition of Selectors on the 12th anniversary of Record Store Day.

Recordings from our 3rd edition of Selectors on the 12th anniversary of Record Store Day.

Recordings from our 3rd edition of Selectors on the 12th anniversary of Record Store Day.

Recordings from our 3rd edition of Selectors on the 12th anniversary of Record Store Day.

Recordings from our 3rd edition of Selectors on the 12th anniversary of Record Store Day.

Recordings from our 3rd edition of Selectors on the 12th anniversary of Record Store Day.

Spinning records since the age of 15, New Delhi-based DJ Nash JR is adept at weaving together seamless sets traversing through a variety of genres. He utilises the expertise efficiently in his latest mix for Wild City, which sees the bass-head branch out from his trademark sound.  After kicking things off with the contemporary sounds of Waffles and Tom Misch, Nash introduces world fusion elements...

Often when an artist who isn't a conventional DJ curates a mix, the result is a refreshing selection that doesn’t attempt to make the listener move or engage, but simply sit back and listen. Especially so, in the case of Goa-based singer-songwriter Aditi Veena aka Ditty, who exhibits intimacy and ingenuousness as fundamental features in her music. Consequently, her mix for Wild City comes as an in...

Listeners familiar with Nihal Kanwar aka Trafficc’s boxout.fm show ‘Rush Hour’ know that this New Delhi DJ tailors his selections for an intense time on the dancefloor. Reflecting some 80s and 90s reminiscent raw energy, his hectic mix for Wild City is no exception.. Nihal adopted the name Trafficc after realising that the credit for his expansive sonic palette goes to all the hours he spent liste...

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 been an ever-present force in India’s club scene but also helped cultivate the same through the collective’s work across the country. Founded by Masta Justy, Mr T, Insat, Kunal Rawat and DJ Bhai Saab in the late 90s over the shared love of raves, mixta...

With the bulk of electronic producers and DJs focusing their efforts on creating energetic dance floor-oriented sounds, Gillian Kharshiing aka Mero’s adherence to mellower textures makes his latest mix for Wild City stand out. He peppers the largely downtempo mix with bursts of progressive house which creates an engaging contrast. Following mellifluous numbers like Lane 8’s remix of RÜFÜS DU SOL’s...

Drum Attic aka Siddharth Mehra’s music and his career as a New Delhi-based DJ and producer share a strong common feature - consistency. Present in the capital’s nightlife for nearly a decade, first as one half of the electronic duo Motion Noir and later through his own moniker Drum Attic, as well as the studio manager at boxout.fm where he also presents the monthly show ‘DulyUnruly’, Mehra has uph...