When we first watched this vid we had a strange feeling, like someone had squished the sadboi ethos into an R&B-esque, downtempo-ish incarnation, replacing the clichéd japanese longing with a taste of the rich, culturally mixed atmosphere of London, heavy on Punjab vibes as the singer waltzes down the streets in her sexy, otherworldly style. Wobbly synths give the impression that an attack of the VHS tape resolution is imminent, straight out of the cloud rap and vaporwave  nation, when they’re suddenly joined by a drums and track and singing approaching from the south, towards Jamaica.

If you don’t know who this little girl is… well, neither did we! And it turns out, we’re really surprised by her! Far from naïeve, social commentary comes to her as naturally as her non-canon good looks and her love for booty shaking music… which she’s already turned into a political statement. Then there’s how she’ll gracefully shrug off any kind of flak from social media. As we observed from a distance, haters have only managed to make her famous, making us only more so captivated.

 

On her latest track, she’s taken a step back from her usual topics on relationships and femininity to talk about support, loyalty and friendship on a girls’ holiday. Although Trap as a genre might seem musically lightweight, this young Chilean woman has used it to cast issues of feminism into the spotlight, which might be disquieting case of substance over style, but oh, we won’t fail to appreciate it!

 
 
 

 
 

 
Talk about girl power, ‘cause Tee Krispil is not too shy to bitch slap Snoop Dog with an incisive critique on the XXth century’s culture and gender roles that she’ll then toss out the window as she drops rhyme after rhyme bouncing on a hip-hop track with her girls, like a self-conscious existential harlem shake celebrating the fragility of social constructions and the constant transformation of humanity towards an image of perfection increasingly aware of it’s self-worth and what’s between its legs.

 
 
Jamaican artist 41diboss has established himself as one of the main players in Dise Records, DJ NA’s new record label – a.k.a. Daniel Pineda from Nguzunguzu – which will be focusing on the sounds from the Caribbean, African and Latin American diaspora. A week a go, they dropped the video for “DAY ONE”, a highlighted track from the album “Love Power and Sound Mind”, featuring an exquisite blend of dancehall, afrobeat and dembow influences.

Chilean DJ collective Olympic presents their Mind Games EP on netlabel M.I.S.T. Records, founded by renown producer and fellow countryman Horror House, which has been slowly and steadily expanding its dark influence network over three continents.

 

This EP represents their firs official release to the net and their contribuition to the techno-house conversation, in a dialogue with legends from the Chicago days and more recent experiments like those from Jimmy Edgar’s Ultramajic based in Detroit. In accordance to their collective views and their record label’s ethos, the album is the result of a collaborative and organic effort: an expression of full artistic freedom and love to the craft.

From where we’re standing, we’ll have our fingers crossed as we wait for their first incursion in video and their upcomic Olympic Nights parties in Santiago.

 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Once again inviting us to that uncharted territory where a plethora of instrumental and rhythmical textures intertwine into a devastated, limerent and – perhaps – religious mood comes Son Lux, the post-rock and electronica band that your ex, the one with the fishnet stockings, Joy Division t-shirt, black lipstick and unfathomable sadness (which turned into savage encounters at a dim light which still haunt and make you shake like custom-made sleet in your daily bus trip) used to love. On April 25th they released their video for “The Fool You Need”, from their new album “Brighter Wounds”, as if anyone needed a clue that these boys bleed like halogen bulbs.