A french island in the Indian Ocean. Following his course in the School of Arts, Insula has built a creative process that places the concept of hybridity at the center of his work. Multidisciplinary artist, deejay and music producer, Insula, for a few years now, has devoted himself to electronic music. A life-changing trip to Madagascar helped reshape his musical identity through “Maloya“, one of the main traditional music from Réunion Island, giving birth to a new line of production named “Tromba”.

This project mixes the ternary rhythms of Maloya with electronic sounds. A dialog between musical styles that evokes a Maloya trance, the cultural mix of the West and the concept of a Maloya augmented by digital synthesis tinted in afro-futurism. A #Maloyafutur if you may say, following the creole touch electro movement. Playing from a wide spectrum of electro Maloya to Kreoltech, Insula through his work tends to highlight ternary rhythms, and traditional polyrhythmic end electro, from South-American, Africa and Indo-oceanic diasporas.

Nandele is one of the most innovative beatmakers, producers, and DJs from Mozambique. He is at the forefront of the alternative music scene with his mix of bass-heavy boom-bap instrumentals, dubstep, trap, psychedelic hip-hop beats, and the Makonde rhythms of Northern Mozambique. The son of the first black director of the Mozambican National Radio after the country's independence, this is where he gets his musical background by listening at an early age to a vast musical catalog ranging from Michael Jackson, Fela Kuti, Kanda Bongo Man, Santana, and Marvin Gaye, which he incorporates into his beat making.

A prolific producer and writer, Nandele has written music for contemporary dance performances, and films and has a number of band projects including Cantinho das Cores, The Mute Band (who won best new band at the Mozambican Music Awards in 2016) and Azagaia & Os Cortadores da Lenha. He has collaborated with artists such as Felix Laband (RSA), Dion Monti (CHF), Symbiz (DEU), and Boogz Brown (REU). He has graced stages at some of the biggest festivals in Southern Africa: Afropunk Johannesburg, MTN Bushfire Festival in Swaziland, and Azgo Festival in Mozambique. His first E.P. Argolas Deliciosas was released through Mozambican independent label Kongoloti Records, and he recently sold a cassette release on the label Insert Tapes in Sweden.

He produced music for the movie Resgate and it became the first Mozambican and African Portuguese-speaking country to have a movie on the streaming service Netflix. Nandele believes that through his music he can do the unimaginable... communicating and taking us on his journey to try to communicate with other planets…