Fr.10.05.24

DJ POLO first made his mark in UK funky by bringing the genre’s pioneers to his hometown Bristol as part of the Sprung collective. The best part of a decade later, with releases on Roska Kicks & Snares, More Time, and Livity Sound among his extensive catalogue, DJ POLO has firmly established himself as a flagbearer for UK funky’s experimental evolutions. Expect to see POLO continuing to do what he does best, taking UK funky and percussive-led experimentation to new and outward bound levels, building on deep respect for the genre’s rich and often underrepresented lineage.

DJ Lag’s superb production skills have played a big part in transforming a sub-genre of house – one that began by soundtracking taxi trips around Durban – to an enviably innovative participant in the global scene. It's a stunning rise and DJ Lag is ready to put in the work required to make sure Gqom is remembered forever.

Manipulating the streams of soundsystem culture into modernist forms, Low End Activist operates with a strong sense of his own trajectory through the music. Soaking up the community dances in his formative years before barrelling into breakbeat hardcore and jungle, reverberating to the shockwaves of grime and dubstep and twisting into the stylistic warp and weft of contemporary bassweight, his sound skates between MC-led shellers and atmospheric sound worlds with one ear fixed on the cultural context of the sonics as he experienced them, first-hand.