STONE ISLAND PRESENTS AMSTERDAM

Binker Golding and Moses Boyd are amongst the frontrunners of a loose yet interconnected group of London-based jazz musicians that are influenced by the music that surrounds them including hip-hop, electronic, Caribbean rhythms, free improvisation as well as, of course, the jazz tradition. Their recent 3rd album “Feeding The Machine” crosses into ambient, minimalism and experimental electronic territories, whilst also nodding to the duo’s roots in riff-heavy free jazz.

Blackhaine is a UK based project operating between Noise and Drill. With its origins in the static anxiety of 2020, their output focuses on the ‘transition from stomach knotted dread to exhaustive, prang-out negative ecstasy’. A political act — the live show contains deconstructions of their existing sounds and future releases whilst experimenting with genre convention ranging from ambience to hardcore punk.

Cultural appropriation. Misogyny and racism. Social media vanity. Post-colonialism and political correctness. These are not talking points that you’d ordinarily hear on the dancefloor but Charlotte Adigéry and Bolis Pupul are ripping up the rulebook with their music. The Ghent-based duo, who broke out with their 2019 Zandoli EP on Soulwax’s record label DEEWEE, are rare storytellers in electronic music: they take the temperature of the time and funnel them into their playful synth concoctions – never didactic and always with a knowing wink.

Having co-written her band The xx’s three acclaimed albums, she’s also written songs for the likes of Mark Ronson, Jehnny Beth, Benny Blanco and Dua Lipa (including her GRAMMY winning hit single “Electricity”). At the same time as honing her craft as a songwriter, Romy has embraced a burgeoning DJing career. DJing since the age of 17 (when she got her first job playing records at a gay club in Soho), the last twelve months have seen her passion reignited. These two musical loves come together on “Lifetime”, an exhilarating piece of driving, warm, club-influenced pop.

Elena Colombi is a DJ and radio host whose inspired sets are not only open-minded and mind-altering, but also seek to toy with the emotions of listeners and dancers via switches in intensity, tone, lightness and darkness. It’s no lie to say that her distinctive approach is truly unique, in part thanks to a widescreen grasp of different musical cultures, sounds and rhythms born out of travelling the world with her family from a young age. Elena is now based in Amsterdam, where she can be found contributing to the vital local scene whilst focusing on her new label, Osàre! Editions.

Making a name for himself with several club-oriented EP’s on the renowned The Hague label BAKK Haron decided on a stylistic shift in 2018 with his well received cinematic debut album ‘Wandelaar’ on Queeste. A modern ambient classic reminiscing of the works of artists like Roger Eno and Harold Budd. The past few years have seen Haron in a collaborative album with experimental Finnish vocalist Cucina Povera on BAKK’s Plafond series and returning to the dancefloor yet again with his ‘Taxa’ EP on his second Queeste release.