“It just takes a second, it’s done.” Nazar’s Enclave conjures the reality of war in its cut & thrust update on Angolan & Porugese kuduro Steph Kretowicz, 11 December 2018 reviews
Exploring the body unconscious through VR in Mélodie Mousset’s HanaHana: Full Bloom with Treti Galaxie Friday photo
Alone togetherness in the localised global underground of Krakow’s Unsound Festival & its insights into the value of presence Tayyab Amin, 28 November 2018 features
Take yourself to the centre of Otherness: Looking at identity, belonging & representation from the margins at BFMAF Divya Osbon, 5 October 2018 features
For what it’s worth: AQNB’s editor kicks off a funding drive with an exposition on the life of a freelance writer, Part 1 Jean Kay, 9 July 2018 features
Future forward: Ashley Holmes on the language of things to exist within & Black radio as a way to document culture 3 December 2018 focus
Different angles: Jamila Johnson-Small on Last Yearz Interesting Negro, the limits of language & how those limitations might speak 12 November 2018 focus
A view from Junk Bay: Alexmalism rummages through the sonic landfill of consumerism, colonialism & deterritorialisation in TKO aqnb, Friday sound
Honami Higuchi finds catharsis from traumatic experiences in the body-performance of Torque as Mira with Raphael Leray Thursday video
Makeda’s ‘Me, First’ traces the colonial histories of Australia & the UK through her own faded ties to an unfamiliar Afro-Caribbean heritage aqnb, 29 November 2018 sound
“My body’s unglued.” Tendryl invokes a slow melt of liquified space in a post-truth moment for the club, noise & trap of Knaves aqnb, 29 November 2018 sound
Kneading through the collaborative work of Corinna Helenelund & Lukas Q Hoffmann at Titanik, Turku 28 November 2018 photo
El Plvybxy contemplates the pre-Columbian “continent of life” with the feverish pace of a producer establishing their identity aqnb, 26 November 2018 sound
mapalma dissects the relationship between nature, technology & the human condition with the noisy industrial sound of ‘Boneless Beauty’ aqnb, 23 November 2018 sound
Lol K’s distorted saxophone plunges into the recesses of bass & garage with a video for Born Under a Bad One featuring Rowdy SS 22 November 2018 video
Bonaventure’s Mentor EP strips away the noise & volatility of her earlier audio collages to reveal the mute tension that lies beneath Steph Kretowicz, 19 November 2018 reviews
Lyra Pramuk draws a line through a mysterious, triumphant, joyous mix of old & new, familiar & unfamiliar sounds for AQNB aqnb, 16 November 2018 sound
NULL revisits the euphoric rave days of a childhood Walkman with an emotional cassette mix called Halcyon Days Volume 2 aqnb, 9 November 2018 sound
“Both apocalypse & utopia are already here.” Bonaventure confronts the tension of existence with ‘Both (ft. Hannah Black)’ aqnb, 6 November 2018 sound
DeForrest Brown Jr. on potential futures beyond the horizons installed by the Whites in his mixtape collaboration with Kepla 5 November 2018 focus
YOTO takes a makeshift avant-pop aesthetic to its extreme with the fractured rhythms & chopped up melodies of ‘Cuki’ aqnb, 3 November 2018 sound
