Sporting Life, Dev Hynes, DJ Earl, Teengirl Fantasy, Sadaf

"Sporting Life is the solo project of Eric Adiele, known for his work as one-third of Ratking, the XL Recordings affiliated rap group. 55 5's utilizes hip-hop style sampling but the first single, "Badd," also owes an obvious debt to jungle and footwork. Though it comes in at an album-length ten tracks, Adiele considers 55 5's a beat tape and says his sound is influenced by Arca and DJ Rashad. 55 5's marks the legendary Belgian label's first tape release in nearly two decades. The release was mastered by Daddy Kev of LA beat scene staple Low End Theory." - Resident Advisor


DJ Earl entered the musical world in 2005 by means of dance battle. He participates local parties in the skating rinks building up his unfailing knowledge of this culture. In 2008 he meets DJ Spinn and DJ Rashad, and suddenly it was a trigger for him, he started to produce his own footwork tracks and will soon join the Ghetto Teknitianz beside Spinn, Rashad, Traxman and many others. DJ Earl represent's the new generation of Chicago's sound, between jazz and funk tunes, devilish synthesizers, unstructured hip hop samples, heavy sub basses and mesmerizing snares. With releases on prestigious record labels such as Hyperdub & Planet Mu playing Boiler Room & Fabric London there's no telling what's in store for the future.


Teengirl Fantasy made quite a splash with their cyborg electro-pop at Sled Island 2011. In the time since, the duo has navigated a digital maze of house sounds, deconstruction, R&B and new age. It's a complicated mesh that proves itself highly rewarding when one surrenders to its chaos.


Setting the tone for Traxman and our secret guests' pan-global, pan-sonic barrage of beats is experimental musician and artist, Sadaf, whose music is similarly hard to pin down and similarly, viscerally exciting. Sadaf H. Nava's been messing with audience's minds for the past few years-- on both sides of the Candian-American border-- with her confrontational brand of multimedia performance art. She's got a cassette/digi EP, CFC, dropping soon on HOSS Records, and it's a wild, maximalist explosion of noise, ecstatic vocals, and chaotic-but-dancefloor-ready beats. This new music combined with her penchant for mesmerizing, theatrical performances should make her set a body-moving mindfuck.