Slikback

Kenyan DJ and electronic musician Slikback produces an intense, volatile form of experimental club music, smashing together elements of trap, footwork, speedcore, and several other styles. Affiliated with Uganda's Nyege Nyege collective, he earned massive amounts of praise for his blistering live sets as well as late-2010s EPs such as Lasakaneku and Tomo. Freddy Mwaura Njau was born in Nairobi, Kenya. He mainly listened to the radio and first gravitated toward trap and gqom, but when he moved to Uganda for university, he discovered more experimental dance sounds. Working at t...