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Layo & Bushwacka! are one of electronic music’s most esteemed duos. Composed of Matthew ‘Bushwacka’ B, a percussionist in the London School Symphony Orchestra who was converted into a member of the infamous Rat Pack after a warehouse party in ’88, and Layo Paskin, a North Londoner immersed in the acid house scene who met Mr C at one of the legendary Clink Street parties in 1988, before together setting up their world renowned night club, The End. Read more on Last.fm

The Selecter, a ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in the late 1970s as one of the essential bands of the British ska movement. The profilic lead singer is Pauline Black. The Selecter are known for hits as 'On My Radio', 'Too Much Pressure', 'Missing Words', 'Three Minute Hero' and 'Celebrate The Bullet'. The Selecter featured a racially mixed line up, and the name of the band is a reference to the Jamaican word for a music selecter, known elsewhere as the DJ. Read more on Last.fm

(1) Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya (born May 23, 1998), better known as Steve Lacy, is an American musician, guitarist, bassist, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He was born in Compton, California, and gained recognition as a member of the Grammy-nominated R&B band, The Internet, in 2015. In February 2017, Lacy released his debut project, a song series, titled “Steve Lacy's Demo” and his debut album, “Apollo XXI”, was released on May 2019. On December 4, 2020, Lacy released a compilation album titled “The Lo-Fis”. Read more on Last.fm

Punk group based in Brighton, England, UK, formed in 2019. “LAMBRINI GIRLS! Despite being named after the beloved perry drink this Brighton three-piece's sound is neither light nor fruity. You should instead expect to knock back raw, face melting garage-punk and ruddy well like it!”- Tell Everyone promotions Lambrini Girls are a punk rock group formed in Brighton, currently consisting of duo Phoebe Lunny and Lilly Macieira. Lambrini Girls formed during a period of lockdown in the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more on Last.fm

There are at least six artists with the name Chalk 1. Chalk is an artist from Brighton, UK . Bio: “Chalk” is the sound of a thousand cigarettes in an empty room. Raw, stark, devastating – it is less a simple collection of doubts and disappointments than a full-blown window to purgatory. At its core is a question: is this it?" Chalk's first album was released through Sonic Anhedonic Recording Company on the 2nd September 2013 and Second Album Via Kissability and Sonic Anhedonic Recording Company on the 27th October 2014. Read more on Last.fm

Marie Davidson is a Canadian electronic musician and producer from Montreal. Davidson's music has been labelled as techno and minimal wave, with AllMusic's Paul Simpson describing it as "cold, hypnotic minimal wave with analog synthesizers and drum machines, showcasing her intimate yet detached lyrics that are more often spoken than sung." Pitchfork critic Sophie Kemp has stated that the sound of Working Class Woman is "somewhere between spoken word electroclash of Miss Kittin and the dreamy dissonance of Julee Cruise." Read more on Last.fm

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Merchant of pure gay chaos. Cult sensation in London’s underground music scene, named ‘one to watch’ by Lauren Laverne, The Guardian, Attitude Magazine, NME, Loud & Quiet, DIY, Time Out, Jack Saunders, Huw Stephens + Elton John. Their legendary live show has graced sold-out venues across the UK, from transforming the main stage of Latitude Festival, a secret set at Glastonbury festival and headlining London’s Heaven Nightclub into a pure queer dystopia of electro-punk excess. Read more on Last.fm

Sault are an anonymous British music collective that make a mixture of rhythm and blues, house and disco. Despite critical acclaim, they eschew interaction with the media. They frequently foreground black-centric issues. The band's lineup is officially unknown. Inflo leads the group; the producer won Ivor Novello awards for his work on Little Simz' Grey Area and as co-writer of Michael Kiwanuka's "Black Man in a White World". Singer-songwriter Cleo Sol and rapper Kid Sister have been members of Sault since their debut album 5[/abum] in 2019. Read more on Last.fm

Christopher Edwin Breaux, professionally known as Frank Ocean, is an American singer/songwriter and member of the gleefully hedonistic hip-hop collective OFWGKTA. He was born on October 28, 1987 and lived in Long Beach, California. He has helped pen tracks for Justin Bieber, John Legend, Brandy, and Beyoncé over the last few years. In 2011, Ocean released his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, for free via his Tumblr.. Venting about his decision to drop the record his own way, he took to Twitter on March 1, 2011: Read more on Last.fm