May 15, 2019

Breakbeat is back - with a new generation of queer producers and DJs

Breakbeat is having a comeback over the past couple of years, the Guardian writes, as a redress to a scene that remained stubbornly white, straight, male and stale. The new movement is spearheaded by a coalition of acts from the queer fringes - CCL, Ciel and LSDXOXO, two relative lifers, Chicago’s Eris Drew and Lisbon’s Inês Coutinho, AKA Violet - they are representing a more conscientious side of the contemporary underground, London paper argues.