JAEho HWANG 

Jaeho Hwang is a Seoul-based DJ, producer, and visual artist who recontextualises traditional Korean instrumentation and brings it into the contemporary club music scene. South Korean artist inspired by the Buddhist concept of impermanent selfhood, his first EP “Non-Self/비자아” combines dark, industrial club beats with old Korean sound and samples. He explores his sense of identity in the digital age as refracted through the Buddhist concept of anatta, or non-self, the belief that there is no unchanging, permanent soul or essence in living beings.

He is a member of Chinabot that is a platform and collective created to change the dialogue surrounding Asian music.

His music has been featured in Resident Advisor, Boiler Room, The Wire Magazine, BBC, DJ Mag, Xlr8r.

“Hwang does this by blending elements of industrial techno, gabber and experimental electronic music with traditional Korean instrumentation throughout the record. It’s a remarkable mixture, and the result is an intense rush of sounds that converse at a ferocious pace; thunderous kicks propel sweet-yet-sharp melodies, disjointed voices and wild FX into a dazzling orbital motion. The adrenaline-kick of listening to this release comes when your ear latches onto one its many sonic threads, and surfs it along the waves of distortion and wild sound design.” DJ MAG

‘Fanta Rouge’, with its pounding drums and ridiculously addictive melody, is the most ecstatic thing I’ve heard in ages, all the more remarkable considering the sadness which surrounds it. The Quietus

NEO GEODESIA

Neo Geodesia is Saphy Vong, a French Cambodian audio visual artist born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and grew up in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His unique musical outlook fuses the experimental and DIY ethos that can be found in both the local Nancy Hardcore and Grindcore scene that embraced him as a teenager, and the sounds broadcasted from Cambodia into his home through his parents pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants and movies.

His recent project has been dedicated to fusing experimental electronic processes with traditional Khmer music and exploring the far edge of sonic expression to include noise, Bek Sloy, Funeral Smot and Roam Vong.

Over the years, however, he has focused his approach less upon heaviness than slipperiness, granular textures and head-spinning polyrhythms.

Active for more than a decade under the alias Lafidki, he has produced, composed and released electronic music for Orange Milk Records. His music has been featured in Resident Advisor, NPR, NTS, BBC, Mixmag, The Quietus and Bandcamp Daily. 

NEO GEODESIA has performed with the likes of Foodman, Evicshen, Object Blue, Why Be, Zoë mc Pherson, Sunik Kim, Ecko Bazz, Still and his music was played by Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Zuli, Animistic beliefs.

He currently lives in London and runs the multidisciplinary Asian platform and record label Chinabot, on which he released his latest album 2562 Neon Flames.

AYANKOKO

Ayankoko is the solo musical effort of French-Laotian multi-instrumentalist and composer David Somphrachanh Vilayleck; a fusion of jazz, sound design, traditional, noise, ambient, computer music, and classical. He studied at the French conservatories of Perpignan and Strasbourg and has a PhD in jazz guitar, improvised music and composition. Vilayleck has been working for 20 years in the fields of jazz, dub and experimental music. Ayankoko is an ever-evolving project which questions the ear about sound perception, its raw nature, the definition of music and the concept of ugly-beauty. Ayankoko uses syncopation, abnormal time signatures, and polyrhythms to explore new conceptual frameworks and create an overwhelming feeling of weightlessness. On his new album ‘Kia Sao ກ້ຽວສາວ’, Ayankoko advances his technique, pushing it as far as he can, from complex abstraction to blissful bursts of melody.