Laying her Kate Wax moniker to rest after releases on Trevor Jackson’s Output and James Holden’s Border Community, the enigmatic Aïsha Devi set out on a new adventure with Danse Noire, her own sanctuary-label in 2013 dropping an EP called Aura 4 Everyone followed by the 12″ Hakken Dub/Throat Dub in Summer 2014 alongside EPs from boundary blurring artists Vaghe Stelle and El Mahdy Jr. Danse Noire is dedicated to exploring abstracted techno/club structures, and Devi’s own music combines her Tibetan and Nepalese heritage, using her machines to transmute deep meditation. Whether they are guttural or soprano, Devi’s warped pop mantras instruct us to find the unseen through a tense, visceral musical landscape that is often as gnarled and industrial as it is danceable.
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News
- SHAPE+ announces 2024/2025 roster of artists
- SHAPE+ announces 2023/2024 roster of artists
- SHAPE+ platform announces open call for 2023/2024
- Photos: SHAPE @ MUTEK Montréal
- Resonance FM show on MUTEK & SHAPE
- News and upcoming showcases
- Photo report – SHAPE at CTM 2016
- Resonance FM broadcast on Schiev
- Listen to Aisha Devi’s Les Siestes Électroniques set
- ‘Music needs to be political’: An interview with Aisha Devi
- Listen to the May SHAPE Resonance FM radio show
- Rokolectiv 10th anniversary edition in pictures
- Stream Rokolectiv festival’s 10th anniversary broadcast on Resonance FM
Past events
- SONICA 2018
- SHAPE Bucharest 2017
- musikprotokoll 2016
- SHAPE @ MUTEK Montreal
- Les Siestes Électroniques – Paris
- Rokolectiv
