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Shivelight Summary In the last few years, through our curation partnership with Samaya‘s Shivelight YouTube channel, research into the world fusion genres has become the bread and butter, and the main focus of our curative work. This means that in all the curation that we can fit into a day’s ...

Top Glitch & Leftfield Electronic Music Discoveries of 2020 Summary A playlist dedicated to those artists that are pushing the boundaries of experimental electronic music, from neuro and leftfield bass to the depths of breakcore and IDM. Here’s some of the most weird and wonderful sounds we came across in ...

Beautiful Decay  Summary Emotive tracks for cold winter busrides, rainy afternoons, saudade in the dusk & generally, navigating hope within the dystopian industrial purgatory. Here are some of the most emotionally engaging and unique downtempo songs we received for review or came across on the interwebs. From the Dalai ...

  Stoked to kickstart another year of Ethnofusion finds, bringing you music in our ever-increasing scope of world electronic fusion music. Having our standards raised on a year-on-year basis, this year we will continue to pick apart every release on our radar, highlight the most intriguing finds and what the ...

We are incredibly excited to present to you the collaboration between Outallectuals producer, Баxтак and Syrian rapper Assasi from the Bilad El-Sham movement. The Blue Giant is a conceptual track from Assasi’s upcoming ‘Third World Wide’ album, and it highlights his story as a Syrian rapper on a global journey. The music video ...

We are here again, yet another month to be alive, another chance to listen to good underground music and uncover some of the fattest headphone and sound system bumps of the months. This month’s psydubhop section has indeed been buzzing and many of our favourite artists and labels have been ...

What’s up everyone? It’s your intergalactic robot alien boy, Baxtak, reporting live for Outtallectuals from the deepest depths of Soundcloud, bringing you those soul-twerkicising darbuka rhythms and air-daf-drumming extravaganza with this edition of Ethnofusion. I’ve been doing my thing, compiling all the dankest world fusion music I heard in the ...

In order to fit singles and one-offs we hear in our archive of ethnofusion selections, I’ve decided to run a monthly lowdown of the best world bass music I hear and unleash them upon our our readers’ souls. It’s been a good month for this genre with a few genre-bending releases, ...

Outtallectuals – Dhawa Sunrise ‘Dhawa Sunrise’ is a fundraiser compilation based around the themes of future-thinking and/or ethnic inspired texture-heavy music. The album includes 13 artists from 10 countries including Steppeulven Awards nominee, Bwoy De Bhajan, with artwork provided by Nepali pioneer graffiti artist SadhuX. Name Your Price (minimum £2) ...

The Outtallectual Collective presents our first comic, Wingless Symptoms – A conversation about elevation between Tobias, the roof-dweller and a bird. Illustrations: Arash Abedin Words: Aryan Ashoori Story: Arash & Aryan