Analogue and digital, tradition and urbanity: Shriram Sampath is a flutist and sought-after producer and session musician. His partner, Swarupa Sawkar studied tabla under Ustad Zakir Hussain and Ustad Allarakha and is celebrated as one of India’s top players.

Synthpop, retro-futuristic-dreamy: Arfaz Kagalwala combines house beats from global pop’s collective memory with found sounds processed beyond recognition and a heavily processed voice.

A radical antithesis to mainstream Indian cinema

Between tabla-science and Detroit techno: DJ Pawas belongs to the generation which established the local house culture in the Indian metropolises.

Gerriet Schultz encounters DJ Pawas.