Black Artist Database co-founder NIKS takes us on a visit by intergalactic home and techno.
DJ, educator and group chief NIKS’ cross-disciplinary work has drawn on the Black inventive expertise from a younger age. Within the early 2000s she watched her father play on the Glastonbury Pageant, and her brother, who was concerned in London’s storage and home scene shared tapes and CDs together with her. When she was learning for a Sociology diploma on the College of Bathtub, specialising within the experiences of Black ladies in academia, she took up DJing, impressed by the approaches of Mr G. and Kerri Chandler to develop a mode that creates moments of intimate dancefloor connectivity.
In 2020, because the pandemic uncovered racial injustices throughout the globe, NIKS watched as Bandcamp Friday provided a lifeline to unbiased artists and commenced work on a challenge that will higher assist Black artists profit from it. Alongside 5 mates, NIKS launched Black Bandcamp, a database to assist music followers seek for and assist Black producers on the platform. This useful resource was pivotal in redressing the stability for underground Black artists and has since reworked into Black Artist Database, a globally-recognised platform that lists Black creatives, journalists, fairness initiatives and Black-led tasks alongside labels, producers and bands.
Over the previous few years, NIKS has turn out to be a significant fixture within the London scene and past, curating a sequence for Mixcloud and holding down residencies on Noods Radio and extra not too long ago Rinse FM, the place she joins the dots between home and techno previous and current. NIKS’ Truth Combine is a recording of her paying at London’s Waterworks Pageant in 2021, the place she warmed up the HiHat tent and went down “a sonically fluid, intergalactic and house invasion bleep route”.
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Waterworks Pageant 2022 takes place on 17 September at Gunnersbury Park in west London. Discover info on lineup and tickets right here.
Tracklist:
DJ Chupacabra – ‘Rockstar’
Ronan – ‘Life Net’
HearThuG – ‘Planet Rhythm X’
DJ Chupacabra – ‘Grimer’
OKRA – ‘Section’ (Nicolás Duque’s Right down to Earth Combine)
Ronan – ‘Abrazale’
Oliver Moon – ‘Perception’
Haruka Salt, Tongji – ‘Scrabble’ (Tony G Remix)
Oliver Moon – ‘Amenecer’
Agile Variety – ‘Pyramid’
Oliver Moon – ‘Extensive Eyed’
Darsk – ‘Lair’
Flowdan – ‘Plans In Movement’ (Marcus Visionary Remix)
Ronan – ‘En La Malla’
Ayesha – ‘Potential Power’
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