Among that brood is Bass Temple, a producer whose ethereal beats have taken her from Hawaii, where she served as resident DJ of Out the Box - the Big Island’s longest running monthly bass music event - to her current home in Denver, where she’s become a familiar face at Cervantes Ballroom (she’ll return there this month to play alongside electro-soul producer, Michal Menert.) Some producers manage to bind the primordial to the present, to weave the ancestral into today. Claire Francisįor fans of: Suzanne Ciani, Caterina Barbieri, Sofie Birch Born in the former Portuguese colony Macau, and with Burmese, Japanese and Chinese heritage, Sou’s music also beautifully evokes sensory memories of her early childhood - as she puts it, “the smell of cigarette smoke from her grandmother’s room listening to Taiwanese pop star Teresa Teng in the rain”. Synths gurgle, streams trickle and thunder rumbles on ‘Petrichor’, while on ‘Velocity Of Water’, Sou coaxes her machines into vibrant kosmische electronica patterns that recall the innovative German groups Harmonia and Cluster. A homage to early electronic instruments and pioneering producers - think Suzanne Ciani, Pauline Oliveros and Terry Riley - the seven-track album feels like a healing, mind-clearing walk in nature. Synth sorceress Suki Sou assembled an arsenal of rare and iconic machines at her home studio in the Peak District, including Buchla and Moog modular systems and ARP, Serge and Synthi analogue gear, to create her immersive debut album ‘Notes On Listening’. Georgina Findlayįor fans of: OK Williams, Chloé Robinson, Nikki Nair This summer she’s set to play a string of festivals in the UK and Ireland including FLY, Gottwood, Waterworks and Forbidden Fruit, and you can catch her this month in Austria for Snowbombing and at Village Underground, London. will see her joined by an array of international artists. Surusinghe’s fiery, high-energy sets have led to a brand-new Rinse FM residency her show Suzuki Drifting With. It’s an audacious and uncompromising project textured with propulsive drum patterns, crunchy metallic percussion, tantalisingly echoey vocals, and bass set to shake dancefloors and bruise soundsystems. She describes her latest release on Steel City Dance Discs, ‘Likshot’, as a “progression of sound after two years back in the clubs”. The Melbourne-born, London-based artist produces hard-hitting percussive tracks that have thundered between club walls from Brisbane to Berlin.

Exploding onto Mall Grab’s label last August with her debut EP ‘GOOD GIRLS // BAD GIRLS’, Surusinghe caused quite the stir.

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