Authentically Plastic

authentically plastic

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As a DJ, Producer & Artist from Kampala, Uganda, Authentically Plastic’s sound is
necessarily political. Between 2018-2023, they ran a roving, riotous, club night called

ANTI-MASS; which opened up space for femme & queer artists in Uganda’s increasing-
ly repressive social climate.

Risk-taking in this political environment has shaped Authentically Plastic’s sound, which
has an accelerated, densely layered, improvisational feel. Their fiery debut album, Raw
Space, was released in September 2022, receiving critical acclaim for its fresh urgency
and prismatic unpredictability. Authentically Plastic’s sets, at once dark & playful, harbor
this same propulsive energy, using Gqom, Noise & Techno as a base for exploring other
unknown sounds. Their music is influenced by Northern Ugandan (acholi electronic)
rhythms, early acid/industrial experiments, and Afro-futurism.
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Take a sneak peak at their “dirty, greasy techno” Mix for CRACK Magazine here: Crack Mix 491.

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Ash Fure

Ash Fure’s full-bodied sonic experiences work on the senses in startling ways. Called “purely visceral” and “staggeringly original” by The New Yorker, Fure’s live performances and built-out worlds mobilize the elemental force of sound, the social muscle of listening and our animal capacity to sense. Winner of two Lincoln Center Emerging Artists Awards, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rome Prize in Music Composition, a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Prize, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Artists, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, a Stuttgart Composition Prize, a Darmstadt Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, and a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Columbia University, Fure holds a PhD in Music Composition from Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Sonic Arts at Dartmouth College and was named co-artistic director of The Industry LA in 2021.

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