It’s not so much about being a female DJ, but being a Black female DJ playing techno. When I first started going out to techno nights I would sometimes be the only Black woman there. I felt like an outsider, which is crazy, because techno was made by the Black community in Detroit, using Black music in it’s drum patterns. Now there is a call to ‘Make Techno Black Again’, and that is what I want to do and be a part of. I want to reclaim our spaces, because techno has been whitewashed.

Robby D is a 19 year old from Reading, Pennsylvania who is living out his dream of creating, in his own words, dark pop music. Already releasing 3 albums in a year, he’s proving to be unstoppable and with new music already mapped out as well fighting for social justice and preparing for his first term at college, we decided to catch up with him after the release of his third album, Bitter.

Ahead of his live stream this Friday 4th September at 8.30pm on our Instagram channel, we caught up with Wavedz, Bristol-based DJ, Producer and resident at the stalwart venue of the Bristol clubbing scene: Lakota. As well as being bloody lovely, he plays Disco, Lo-Fi House, Acid House, Techno, Electro & everything in-between, and his own music is definitely worth keeping an ear out for as well. Those of you who were at our launch party in January will know we are all in for some beat-heavy aural joy on Friday; he promises to bring us some sunny vibes to help us get through until that hallowed time we can all be on a dance floor again.

Grabbing the chance to leave Zoom meetings in the past for now, we decided the only way to celebrate their upcoming release was with a pint in a sunny beer garden. Over cold pints we meandered through talk of their very special but undefinable relationship, Viv Albertine, smelly rugs, the importance of knowing your traditional craft inside out if you are going to push creative boundaries, the realities of embarking on a full time music career, and what they see happening in their near future.

My second single ‘People Keep Telling Me’ was inspired by the fact that I was really tired of going to all these parties and the first question people would ask would be ‘Oh, where’s your boyfriend?’ ‘Do you have a boyfriend?’ Why is that the first thing you have to ask me? Why not ask me how my music career is going? How my degree is going? It’s a song about confidence, about female empowerment. I want that song to embody strong females.

It is amazing how powerful live music is. I think a lot of people, outside of your music enthusiasts, and artists, have realised how important live music is. It is like a unity. I would go as far as saying live music is one of the biggest forms of unity in the whole world. For me and the guys, it just doesn’t feel like things are back to normal until that comes back. Live music is at the heart of it all.

I plan to do some gigs in London with a guy called Danny Starr, who is actually the son of Ringo Starr. The next single from the EP is going to be called Friends, and that will be put out in the next couple of months. Apart from that I will be just trying to get some more gigs, but it is all exciting.

Foxgluvv is an unapologetically gay DIY pop artist from Birmingham, now based in Queen’s Park in north London, who has created the perfect score for your late night party with her signature ‘hungover-pop’ sound. Blending the lyrics and aesthetics of modern left-field pop music with her love of the 80s, Foxgluvv's music is packed with dreamy synths, lo-fi beats, camp and extravagance.

If you like the sweeping vocals, clever sampling, melancholy and heart-punching downtempo dance of recent years, made famous by the likes of Jamie XX, James Blake and Caribou, you should definitely be listening to xxweesh right now.