Friday 3 February 2023, 8pm

Image: Courtesy of Duane Warner and The Gate

hyperlocal: Kute + Monofee + Mr aka Amazing + lylla (DJ)

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Pleased to welcome back hyperlocal with another amazing line-up featuring Kute, Monofee, Mr aka Amazing and LYLLA (DJ).

Monofee

Monofee is a multimedia artist. They produce works of dreamy melancholy cut through with a heartbreaking innocence. Their debut EP "Forest of Feelings" was released in February 2019 on Quantum Natives, and they have since contributed to compilations from Edited Arts and Eternal Dragonz. They composed the original soundtrack to Dafa Metti, a documentary by Tal Amiran following the struggle of Senegalese migrants in Paris, as well as making their video work debut with "2021: Beautiful Life", a silent cinema piece debuted by the Norient Film Festival.

Mr AKA Amazing

Duane Warner (known as Mr AKA Amazing) makes distinctively vulnerable lo-fi hip-hop and distorted EDM, which he builds around voice notes using his phone. His softly spoken lyrics are raw and vulnerable, often about feeling misunderstood, although when performing live he enters a hyped-up surrealist MC mode. Duane loves to collaborate, and recently stormed Bristol with an impromptu appearance with super-versatile drummer Dan Johnson, which has led to this first ever London appearance of the duo.

'Illegibility Mistakable: Master AKA Mr Amazing on Collapsing Drums collects several tracks from earlier, self-released albums – Think Big and Am I Being Unreasonable – into one righteous lump of lo-fi hiphop that’s somewhere between cLOUDDEAD and Adam Bohman. “MANGOBAY” sounds like someone wrestling with the ideas of life and relationships while speaking through a broken supermarket tannoy.' — Spenser Tomson, The Wire