On Episode 4 of Black Rhizome, host softchaos hosts guest artist and producer DJ Travella. The 22-year-old producer born Hamadi Hassani, DJ Travella is responsible for the most exhilarating music of recent years, injecting crackling cybernetic energy into Singeli in a semi-improvisational style incorporating production, DJing and live performance. Singeli is a genre which has resulted in some of the most important developments in electronic music in the last half decade.

DJ Travella is bending and breaking notions of sound with their work, and we'd all take heed to pay attention.

Intro track: No - Moodymann Outro track: Crazy Beat Music Umeme 2 - DJ Travella 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 🌱🌱 🌊🌊🌊🌱🌊🌊

Rhizomes are a subterranean plant stem that sends out roots from its nodes. Electronic music intrinsically carries the same travel patterns and serves as a mode of active expression. It travels fast and far. Black Rhizome is a bi-monthly program that uplifts femme, women, queer and gender nonconforming artists, producers, writers and thinkers and centers the spirit and tenacity of electronic music, the places it’s traveled, and the art it has inspired– dedicated to sampling sounds +  ideas to read pasts and speculate our present.

Softchaos is a Los Angeles born, Spain based experimental DJ and performance artist. Using sound as their medium, Softchaos blends to engage in a hybrid practice of sound archiving and technological criticism. Through their work, they study radical black and diasporic queer movements.

As a self-taught dj, their percussion-heavy sets draw from the black roots of techno to question boundaries of musical styles and highlight radical sound politics, while infusing the energy of sample based electronic music rhythm and bass into the genre. Softchaos is currently working on experimental club sets +  community building and aspires to bring that energy to more live shows.

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