BBC Radio: Tom Ravenscroft 78.2.2020 with Elkka
Tom chats to rising star, London based DJ, producer and label founder Elkka who also delivers the guest mix. She is appearing at the 6 Music festival. She is the founder of record label and DIY art collective, femme culture.
She says of her new EP ‘Every Body Is Welcome’, “Arriving in London in my early 20s I was a completely different person in every possible way and discovering club culture, the rave scene and queer spaces allowed me to explore myself fully as a woman and as a queer person. For me, the dance floor has been a place where I have felt the most liberated, the most myself, unified with friends and strangers by the music and moment we are sharing. This EP is a celebration of those moments, of the dance floor, of dance music that has inspired me creatively and personally. Every Body Is Welcome symbolises what I hope the dance floor to be – a music utopia or haven, somewhere for everyone to feel safe to express themselves, to find themselves, to be whoever they want to be and feel part of a community of acceptance and tolerance. Idealistic? Yes but I think art should be a space to express idealism and where we hope to be.”
Tracklist:
Mowgan – Sanou-Noa
(feat. Solo)
Shabaka and The Ancestors – Go My Heart, Go To Heaven
Somni – Moonlight
(feat. Shrimpnose)
M1L1T4RY G3N1U5 – Born Blind
John Carroll Kirby – Blueberry Beads
Alfa Mist – Withered
Tall Black Guy – I Will Never Know (14KT’s iamabeenie RMX)
(feat. Moonchild)
Cindy Lee – Speaking From Above
Carol Rich – Computered Love
Yogtze – Coocoo
Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – Illusion Of Time
Brainwaltzera – Nessova (Remix by 96 Back)
Elkka – 2000 and F****
Elkka – Avant Garde
Citizen Bravo And Raymond MacDonald – A Real Man
(feat. James Yorkston)
Luzmila Carpio – Killpa
Majid Bekkas – Hassania
New York Dolls – Personality Crisis
Roxy Music – Virginia Plain
África Negra – Mino bô bé quacueda
Jeff Parker – After the Rain
Mura Masa – Today
(feat. Tirzah)
X & Yde – Dares Soar
Kahn & Neek – Random Lab
Magic Drum Orchestra – Original Nuttah (DJ Madd Remix)
(feat. Bunty)
Pharoah Sanders – Love Is Everywhere
Ban – Varhat
Elkka – ???
Atlas4088 – Anunaku
Nathan Fake, Prurient – Degreelessness (Overmono Remix)
Elkka – Breathe
Truncate – Our Bodies
Blatant Water Cannon – Percussions
Luca Lozano – Calling All Dancers
Laurence Guy – This Isn’t My Best Light
Derailleur – Formula 14
Four Tet – Baby
Elles – WRTRGRER
Krotone – Natural Selection
Dance System – Get Freaky
(feat. DJ Deeon)