Livwutang

Electronic

HEADLINER

livwutang has become one of the more distinctive voices in the current underground because her sets feel guided less by rigid genre loyalty and more by mood, depth, and sound-system intuition. Based in New York and originally coming up through Seattle’s DIY scene, Liv Klutse pulls from deep house, dub techno, bass music, psychedelic club sounds, and rhythms from across the Black diaspora, but the thing that makes her stand out is how emotionally tuned-in it all feels. She can move through hard and soft, meditative and physical, sexy and surreal, without it ever sounding random or performatively eclectic. There is a dubwise patience and introspective energy to the way she builds a room, which is a big reason she has become so respected by actual heads, from her Nowadays residency to appearances across major international clubs and festivals. She feels like one of those DJs whose range is wide, but whose point of view is even stronger, and that is what makes her sets feel so singular.

Scratcha DVA

Bass

Scratcha DVA, born Leon Smart, is a British producer and DJ and a defining figure in UK funky, grime, and the wider UK bass continuum. Long associated with Hyperdub and Rinse FM, he released the albums Pretty Ugly in 2012 and Notu Uronlineu in 2016 on Hyperdub, the latter under his experimental DVA Hi:Emotions guise. He is a repeat Boiler Room performer and has held a long-running Rinse FM residency, shaping London's funky and grime sound for two decades. His sets stay restless and sound-system focused, moving through funky, gqom, garage, and left-of-center club music.

The Large

Bass

The Large is a British-raised, New York City-based DJ and monthly NTS Radio resident. She plays global club and soundsystem music, threading dancehall, UK garage, jungle, baile funk, gqom, and afrobeats into up-to-the-minute heaters alongside the weirder edges of club music. Her NTS show has become a reliable index of where global bass culture is heading. On the floor she reads as a party starter built for soundsystem weight and high energy.