In a world obsessed with stereotypes and genre pigeonholing, house & techno DJ, D&B DJ, broadcaster, presenter, writer and label head Charlie Tee’s no nonsense approach to music is that of any true aficionado; playing tracks that make her feel viscerally. From high energy house to gritty peak-time techno, or her more unhinged side rinsing some D&B and jungle, you’re always in for a ride.

If you haven’t come across Hen Ogledd yet but love the sound of wonky, folkloric, political, fluoro-pagan electro-pop you’re just going to love them, believe us. Following their latest release No Wood Accepted and their tour in December culture editor Kerry Mead caught up with them to talk about how they make music together, reclaiming the vocoder, and aural time-travelling.

Soulful and intricate, yet aggressive and pulsating, Rarelyalways is an artist whose genre-straddling has seen him embark on a meteoric rise from the streets of Hackney to collaborating with renowned fusion musician Hanni El-Khatib. Music editor Emma Doyle was caught up to speed on most-recently released ‘Manic’ EP, and what’s in store for the future.

Concocting a delicious mixture of sunshine pop, psychedelia and self-confessed sarcastic lyricism, Greatest Hits are the newest Anglo-Australian music talent you’ve been missing out on up until now.

Bristol-based DJ and producer Sean McCabe has had plenty of time to develop his own sound within the house music scene. Famously, he released his first tracks in 2003 at the tender age of 17 and has spent the last two decades fine-tuning a trademark sound that is effortlessly soulful. As a DJ, he forged a reputation at the legendary Southport Weekender, playing as far afield as Asia and South Africa, as well as regular appearances across Europe and the UK.

One half of the duo Try Me, Miles is a singer, songwriter and producer based in Bristol. With time to slow down and reevaluate in lockdown, Miles decided to turn to solo work while him and Bendy Wendy were unable to create music together. From this, Hector Who Lived was born!

The bisexual vegan shitpunks, Joe & The Shitboys, formed with the intention of ‘calling out shitty behaviour in the conservative Faroe Islands’, where, they say, the rock scene is filled with ‘boneless homophobes and meat-eating misogynists’. After seeing them perform one of the best live sets we’ve seen in a long time, and then spending some time chatting with them back in September at Dot to Dot festival in Bristol, we basically fell hard for the lot of them.

The Italian producer, DJ and stalwart of Ransom Note Records Bawrut is a central part of European club culture. His debut album In The Middle is released on 11th November. Bawrut delves deeper with us into how the album came to be, the political issues it explores, the important role art plays in society, and why its time for club culture to reclaim it’s conscious and political roots.