ANTI-MASS is a Queer DJ and producer collective based in Uganda. A collaborative effort from its three artists \u2013 Turkana<\/a> from South Sudan, Nsasi from Jinja (Uganda) and Kampa-based Authentically Plastic \u2013 DOXA <\/em>emerged from a year of group experiments & listening sessions. It reflects their common interest in shaking up traditional forms, techniques and palettes, making them fall and reform in new directions, discovering new tensions in familiar methods, all the while maintaining an emphasis on the alien and disorienting. Over the course of six tracks, DOXA <\/em>gives the floor to Authentically Plastic who showcases their gqom, vogue & techno-infused sound, while Turkana\u2019s hard electronics and Nsasi\u2019s Kiganda percussions combine with an East African trap shine. Discover the latter\u2019s \u201cGrind\u201d below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Nsasi\u2019s playful solo track brings to mind the loose arrangements of Chicago house just as much as it pays tribute to the polyrhythmic percussion embedded in his culture. The producer joyfully assembles sounds or phenomena that have nothing to do with each other, stacking them, stretching them, distorting them sometimes beyond recognition, and at other times accidentally arriving at something vaguely familiar. This openness to unpredictability is generally fueled by Kampala\u2019s young, but thriving underground music scene; as well as the resilient, Queer friendships that have emerged from the ethics and mutual support that drives this small collective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n DOXA<\/a><\/em>, out on October 7 via ANTI-MASS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n