Brussels-based producer Zoë McPherson's debut cassette/EP signalled an ascendant voice in electronic music, shifting through vocal-lined techno and ambient with shades of Muslimgauze, Vatican Shadow and Gazelle Twin. Now, she tells Tristan Bath how Irizajn was the result of pygmy vocal samples, ethnology tomes and technical experimentation
The Liverpool-via-London grime producer and Boxed co-founder released his debut album, Palm Tree Fire, last month. Now, he talks Oli Marlow through his favourite records, taking in LPs, mixtapes, pirate radio sets and magazine cover-mounts. Slackk photograph courtesy of Mehdi Lacoste