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**** RARE SHOW ALERT ****We are so lucky to have links through to rad underground artists from around the world! Come check out the full power energy of MC Swordman Kitala from Uganda…

Here he teams up with UK-based producer Soft-Bodied Humans for a breakneck set of addictive beats and killer flow, sampling historic Japanese monster movies out now on Phantom Limb records.

Swordman Kitala, aka Frank Amanya is a core feature of Kampala’s fertile underground hip hop scene with his raucous GabaGaza crew, and as a solo artist has released with PAN and Blip Discs among others. Previous collaborations include DJ Scotch Rolex (aka DJ Scotch Egg), Lorenzo BITW and MC Yallah.

Soft-Bodied Humans and Swordman Kitala’s Kaiju Kitala project began with a hopeful email sent to Kampala. The former - an electronic producer based in London - started creating new experimentations in wonky, acerbic, bass-heavy hip hop based on his love of early Japanese monster films. “There was something in the sound design of those films that I thought was really cool and interesting and I wanted to try using those sounds as musical building blocks, kind of like a sample pack,” he writes. “What the tracks absolutely needed was a killer MC. I made a list of my favourites and the one at the very top of the list was the first one to say yes - that was Swordman Kitala.”

I Am Fya is an experimental artist from Manchester, based in Brighton, UK. Her music brings together low-end textures with collaged field recordings, referencing sound system culture and notions of belonging, through lyrical narratives delivered in her febrile vocal style.

Her recent work features field recordings of nature and environmental sounds, human interactions and eavesdropped conversations that were all documented over years of family visits to the island of Barbados. The most recent recordings were made during the recent waves of the coronavirus pandemic. The artist travelled to Barbados intending to care for her elderly parents for a few weeks as they were in and out of hospital due to illness. The weeks turned into months due to ever changing travel restrictions and lockdowns.

Phonetic is an artist who is already synonymous with Brighton’s thriving hip hop scene, thanks to her skills on the mic, combined with her unwavering creative drive. That drive and talent go way beyond her 21 years and they are good signifiers as to why she has already earned support slots for a number of notable artists and acts, including Rag’N’Bone Man, Children of Zeus, Skinnyman, LEVELZ, Dr Syntax and Amy True.

Phonetic continues to build her career with more live shows and collaborations, as well as her very first solo project – The Dictionary of Proverbs LP - which promises to be a boom bap heavy affair, peppered with elements of trap and the perfect springboard for her official launch into the UK scene and beyond.