Meet April’s Artists & DJs to Watch
If you were upping your social media usage last month like most of the world, you might have met our ten Artists and DJs to Watch via Instagram or Twitter. But if not, no sweat, because you’ll still have a chance to get to know them right now.
This month you’ll meet: a Californian rapper who can’t remember how he got his moniker, a bonafide popstar who’s dropping one single a month all summer long, and a Denmark-based DJ with a deep affinity for snakes. Read on for more facts, tunes and tips from April’s Artists and DJs to Watch.
Artists to Watch
- First upload: A house track he ended up deleting
- Hometown: Los Angeles, California
- Influences: Sade, Frank Ocean & Interpol
- Fun fact: He can’t remember how he got the name diveliner
- Stream now: Closer
- First upload: A song with a South African artist while in school
- Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria
- Influences: Frank Ocean, Asa and Lil Wayne
- Fun fact: She’s a part-time doctor
- Stream now: “Try Me”
- First upload: A remix of DJ Quik’s “Tonight”
- Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Influences: Lil Wayne, SWV and Nipsey Hussle
- Fun fact: He lost hearing in his right ear until he underwent a “crazy surgery” to get it back
- Stream now: “Me & You”
- First upload: “@nti – Social Media”
- Hometown: Los Angeles, California
- Influences: Jon Bellion, N.E.R.D & Elton John
- Fun fact: He’s putting out a song a month until his debut album “Perfectionist” comes out at the end of the summer
- Stream now: “Married to the Music”
DJS to Watch
- Homebase: Berlin, Germany
- Genres: House, techno and leftfield bass
- Fun fact: They are the founder of Room 4 Resistance – a queer femme collective focused on community-building and boosting visibility for underrepresented artists in dance music
- Pro tip: Luz placed SoundCloud’s new donation button on their profile to allow fans to support them
- Homebase: London, UK
- Genres: DnB, experimental, leftfield bass
- Fun fact: She used to be known as L U C Y
- Pro tip: LCY uses her GUESTMIX 4 L U C Y profile to promote the mixes other DJs have down for her monthly radio show
- Homebase: Copenhagen, Denmark
- Genres: Techno & trance
- Fun fact: She earned the name “Mama Snake” from one of her closest friends while they both worked for a club in Barcelona
- Homebase: Berlin, Germany
- Genres: House, techno & electronic
- Fun fact: He’s released on tastemaker labels, Love On The Rocks and Cocktail d’Amore Music
- Homebase: Edinburgh, UK
- Genres: Progressive house
- Fun fact: Telfort self-released three back-to-back EPs in just 3 years
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