Edgelands 2026: Nkisi + Bada Duüm + Lee Ashcroft + Nukleopatra

She is the co-founder of the now-legendary NON Worldwide. She leads research through her project The Anomaly Index, which explores sonic phenomena, myth-science, rhythm, and vibration as counter-epistemologies.Her live sets are known for their intensity, bridging the dance floor and the ritual site, while her compositions often draw on esoteric knowledge systems, Kongo cosmology, and non-Western conceptions of time.

Through both scholarly and sonic means, Nkisi investigates how sound acts as a carrier of ancestral memory, psychic disturbance, and hidden knowledge. Her recent work explores paracoustics and sonic phenomena that resist categorisation, such as haunted frequencies, anomalous recordings, and the limits of human perception. 

BADA DUÜM
Bada Duüm (pronounced bah-dah-doom) is a one-woman live AV act from Essex. Heavy on the beats + the bass it's doomy but joyful - experimental mashups of psychedelic techno, futuristic beats, baile funk, & industrial that you can dance to.

Spring 2025 saw debut ‘duumtape vol 1’ released via Bandcamp which was followed by a UK Summer tour with Snapped Ankles. August 2026 saw the release of duümtape vol 2, an EP that upped the tempo and expanded the bada duüm sound more into club territory.

'Chopped rhythms like stampeding stallions across the tundra.. electronic howling to summon the Gods’ - Contrails Zine
‘bass heavy beats and bleeps and it moves around enough to keep it interesting.. gets higher pitched and then drops into dub madness’ - Fighting Boredom

https://badaduum.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/badaduummusic/
https://www.youtube.com/@badaduumtv

LEE ASHCROFT 
“Moody beats for a post-lockdown hellscape. Contains theremin.”
“Mournful bass, synth washes and lethargic rhythms, born from anguish, leading to hope.”

NUKLEOPATRA
Poignant lyrics take aim at tech corporations, the fossil fuel industry, and social media, crafting a soundtrack for the impending apocalypse inspired by industrial, hyperpop, and hiphop. Colchester's own doomsday prepper princess combines sampling and songwriting for a set of tightly produced techno-pessimist bangers.

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