Theo Kotz

Ramallah-based rapper and producer Julmud serves up sounds from the Palestinian underground and beyond in his Fresh Kicks mix, and speaks to Theo Kotz about the local scene and his debut album, ‘Tuqoos سوقط – دوملج’ “I removed the frets from the guitar and started fucking with it because I was bored of the scale — like, the Western scale — and I didn’t have an oud." This is the story of ‘Ur روا’, the closing track from ‘Tuqoos سوقط – دوملج’, the debut album by Ramallah-based producer and...

Move to east London. Build a studio. Make music. In many ways the story of Nervous Horizon is a familiar and traditional approach to making music, but their output is anything but. Its three founders have become unlikely torchbearers for London’s mutating club scene, where you can find DJs playing UK funky, grime or even jungle; and it taps into similar shapeshifting scenes from South America to the Middle East. The London-based trio don’t see themselves as such though.

© Ed Chambers SassyBlack is a Seattle-based artist, and one half of the soul-rap duo THEESatisfaction. Following the death of Prince Rogers Nelson, she explores the influence the icon had on her identity, her artistry and her celebratory Black Weirdo parties. When I was 13, I thought we were all going to die. Everyone in the world, on the same day, at the same time. Somehow the streets would burst into flames, the world would collapse and we would simply not be here.