Category: Interviews
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Axara Is Here To Deliver
The Lagos music scene has a way of producing people who were never supposed to be in it. It is a scene built largely by people who arrived through side doors and stayed because the music gave them something they couldn’t find anywhere else. Ugochi Silas, who performs as Axara, is one of those people,…
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Abiodun Just Wants You To Dance
Abiodun has emerged as a cultural outlier. He is a man of many skins: a former lawyer, a singer once known for soulful lo-fi leanings as a solo artist and as part of the duo Miles from Mars, and now, the visionary creative director and DJ at the heart of an electronic renaissance. There is…
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Sweat It Out Is Keeping The True Rave Essence
From the first minute of conversing with Ebi, also known as DJ Tomce and Dr Love, you can sense that he’s not one to waste words or time. His directness seems to serve him well: he’s a founder of one of the OG Nigerian raves, Sweat It Out. Together with his collective, he has laid…
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LMNL Is Building In The In-Between
LMNL doesn’t make music for the background. The Lagos-based EDM DJ and producer builds sets that are dark, fluid and deliberately consuming, the kind that pull a room inward and hold it there. Growing up with music in his bones and a mother who performed, LMNL spent years searching for an outlet that matched the…
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Every Great Creative Project Needs a Morse
Morse doesn’t talk about his work the way you’d expect. For such an impressive portfolio, there’s no list of credits rattling off, no name-dropping for effect. He’s measured, thoughtful, and almost understated about a career that is quietly touching some of the most significant creative projects coming out of Lagos right now. What makes him…
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Kyla’s Sound, Style, and Everything In Between
At 21, the Lagos-based DJ, model, event curator, and nursing graduate, Kyla, has already built a world around a single belief: that sound is never just entertainment. It is expression, control, and atmosphere. Armed with little more than her phone and an ear that most seasoned DJs would envy, she has carved out a space…
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Taj’s Journey From Culture Head To Label Manager
Some people enter the music industry through a door. Ayomide “Taj” Tajomavwo entered through a window: curious, self-taught, and armed with a podcast nobody asked for but plenty of people needed. What started as a music/pop culture obsession in 2015 Toronto became a career that now spans A&R, label management, artist development, and live production.…
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Meet James BKS, The Wolf Who Found His Full Moon
Some artists spend their whole careers chasing a sound. James BKS, born in France and formed in part by an America that promised belonging, spent years building that sound for other people first. As a producer who made placements for superstars like Snoop Dogg, Akon, Ja Rule, and Idris Elba, he learned the industry from…
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PROTON: The Introverted DJ Running Lagos Nightlife
PROTON grew up on his father’s favourites like Ebenezer Obey, Sunny Ade, and Fela Kuti, legends who became the bedrock of every beat he created. Now, drawing inspiration from Dlala Thukzin’s versatile palette and Caiiro’s hypnotic sets, he transforms those foundations into Afrohouse that moves bodies. His latest single, “Green Crack”, is gaining traction across…
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Damie Is Building the Future of Afro-House, One Beat at a Time
From his bedroom experiments in 2015 to Grammy nominations and over 320 million streams, Damie has become one of the most compelling voices in the evolution of African dance music. The producer and DJ has left his fingerprints on some of the biggest tracks in recent memory: Fave’s “Baby Riddim,” Davido’s “Kante,” and countless others…