The South Africa performer, producer and songwriter talks to Crack’s Nathan Ma about her upcoming Hyperdub album, NON Worldwideand exploring womanhood.
“Angel-Ho smells like Chanel No. 5. ‘I’ve only gotten into it for the last year – I’d always been an Esteé Lauder bitch,’ the young DJ and producer tells me over Skype in her rich, opulent purr. ‘It makes me feel like I’m smoking a cigarette in a ballroom. Like I’m wearing a glitter gown – with Chanel gloves – and I’m just puffing away on a nice cigarette, and I’m just watching the ball go on. I’m enjoying the classical music.’ She pauses for a breath before continuing: ‘And I’m a bit drunk.’
“For now, though, she’s calling me from her home in Cape Town just days after she announced that her debut album Death Becomes Her is coming via London’s Hyperdub. Angel’s been busy since she shook up the tenets of club-ready bangers with her 2015 EP Ascension, which was released on Halycon Veil and mastered by Arca. The EP was frenetic, industrial and dramatic. Dripping with tension and anxiety. The same year saw her team up with Chino Amobi and Nkisi to found the underground electronic music collective NON Worldwide. With joint headquarters across the UK, USA and South Africa, the three artists met online and created a space for their dystopian dance music that was as sonically left-field as it was ready to disrupt the systems of gender, race and politics that divide us.”
Watch the video for ‘Pose’ below and catch Angel-Ho’s live audiovisual performance with Tashi Wada at Rewire 2019 onSaturday, 30 March. Learn more at Angel-Ho.
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