The year is flying by, and it’s April already. Hope you’re having a good 2024 so far!
As we look forward to festival season and sunny days ahead, it seems like an appropriate time to have salute on the cover this issue. The Austria-born DJ/producer and songwriter has lived in the UK for a decade or so now, and has shot into wider consciousness these past few years with a string of delightfully distinctive, highly accessible tracks and a plethora of shows that have become increasingly high-profile the further their star has risen. Ahead of their forthcoming album on Ninja Tune, Kamila Rymajdo expertly profiles salute from page 34 onwards.
Elsewhere we talk to NikNak about Afrofuturism and found sounds ahead of her forthcoming experimental album, ‘Ireti’, on the Accidental label (page 48); document the extraordinary after-hours parties that used to happen on Hulme Crescents in Manchester back in the ’80s and ’90s (page 53); profile Delhi- born, Brooklyn-based artist, Arushi Jain, who speaks about the influence of engineering on her music career and the making of her new album ‘Delight’ (page 61); and a helluva lot more besides.
Carl Loben
Editor