DJ Raff -
djraff.bandcamp.com
London-based Chilean DJ and producer DJ Raff crafts lysergic, low-slung dance music, lacing together samples from across the Afro-Latin diaspora into a heady mix of percussive patterns and hypnotic melodies. With support from Gilles Peterson and Tom Ravenscroft among others, DJ Raff has established himself as one of the most prolific producers on the scene. He describes himself as a relator - or sonic storyteller - speaking in a “musical language” of kaleidoscopic rhythms and atmospheric instrumental moods that draw on myriad influences from the Andean regions of Chile, Peru, Bolivia and beyond.
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Sun Dawei -
sundawei.bandcamp.com
Sun Dawei is a forerunner in the field of electronic music in China.
While Sun was playing in the legendary punk outfit "Underground Baby", he started working on the arrangement of their works and gradually became interested in experimenting with computers and software to soundtrack fashion shows, films, and theatre plays. In 2003, he adopted the moniker "Sulumi" and put out his first experimental electronic work Air Inhibition Of Water, which shed light on how to creatively express one's feelings using the 0's and 1's of the computer language for all his peers.
Throughout his long and genre-shifting career, Sun has used many monikers to create different types of electronic music that bear the same DIY spirit, global perspective, and sense of modernity. Some of the minimalist, ambient and techno releases published under his self-run label "Shanshui Records", which served as a solitary base for him and other like-minded pioneers of electronic music in China, are still deemed to be classics today.