Ammar Kalia

Debit – Desaceleradas M exican-American producer Delia Beatriz, AKA Debit, has a talent for making historical sounds her own. Her 2022 breakthrough, The Long Count, featured woozy, ambient soundscapes made from electronically processed samples of ancient Maya flutes. On her latest record, Desaceleradas (Decelerated), Beatriz turns her attention to the 90s trend of cumbia rebajada . Slowing the Afro-Latin dance genre of cumbia to a sludgy tempo, cumbia rebajada is a dub-infl

Mohinder Kaur Bhamra – Punjabi Disco I n 1982, London-based Sikh devotional singer Mohinder Kaur Bhamra recorded a true oddity. Accompanied by her son Kuljit on an early Roland synthesiser and drum machine, the pair laid down nine tracks of Punjabi folk vocals backed by hammering electronic percussion, disco basslines and fizzing synth melody. Only 500 copies of the resulting album, Punjabi Disco, were pressed; it was released to confusion from a diaspora audience used to th

On an overcast Wednesday in May, a room full of people at South London venue Ormside Projects break into a sweaty moshpit, moved by thunderous bass frequencies and bursts of screams emanating from the stage. A heavy, thrashing sound fills the air: guts shake with low-end vibrations and wailing distortion rattles teeth. Speakers clip and briefly cut out, while the mixing desk groans under the weight of its redline limit. It's so loud you can barely hear your own thoughts. The

‘I want to be the slowest sitarist on the planet,” Rishab Sharma says. “Everyone is trying their gimmicks and playing as fast as they can...

In 1925, 50,000 members of the Persian Bakhtiari tribe set out on a vital journey. Over the course of several weeks, they travelled...

“My grandmother always used to say, ‘New things are good but don’t let go of the old ones.’ That’s something that’s forever stayed with...

“When we started the label 10 years ago, we felt like we might run out of material,” says Jannis Stürtz, the man behind the popular...

Various Artists – Pasé Bél Tan: Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana O ver the past decade, European archival label Flee has been...

‘P unjabi Disco is the holy grail of British Asian music,” DJ and label boss Raghav Mani says. “It’s a miracle this record exists. For...

I t’s a muggy midweek afternoon when a trail of people draped in black and white keffiyeh scarves, Palestine flags and Free Palestine...