Slime music and noise wars at the tippy top of the world
Archie rides a prop plane to the edge of the Arctic Circle to hang with slime lords, noise freaks, and a crew of festival organizers keen to pop the Reykjavik bubble.
Interviews
Marcelinho MeteBala’s cybercria dance machine
The mysterious Brazilian “cybercria” wizard talks about the samples, the mashups, and the funk that “gringos can’t produce.”
Inside the Christopher Emond factory
Christopher Emond welcomes Maya Rajan into the cluttered, hand-drawn, CD-spilling headquarters of his DIY music operation.
An interview with Milwaukee rap starlet Myaap
Myaap opens up about the impromptu chaos that sparked “Fairy” and her just-released mixtape Pixie Dust.
Dealers of God are rebuilding the ultimate Australian saga
Dealers of God riff on origins, inspo, Australia, maybe-real plays lost to history, and the desire to talk about some real shit.
The rise and fall of Strappnasti
The brainrot baron and Canadian gem known as Strappnasti reveals everything about his rise and recent return.
MVMBO, the producer from Rome who helped shape Philly drill
MVMBO discovered that Skrilla hopped on an old beat of his after he watched the rapper on a podcast.
zayok is the future of digicore
The rising 16-year-old opens up about his new project In elsewhere and finding bliss in the abrasive.
Peace, love, and the poetics of beatpacks with Skoolio
On beatpacks, Gigi D’Agostino, budots, Paulon Records’ iconic producer map, and the meaning of art amid platforms and precarity.