London’s Bala Club are ripping up the rulebook
Metal, reggaeton, trap and emo are some of the elements that could briefly describe Bala Club, the young outsider collective who are changing the rules in the London’s underground electronic music scene.
Founded by Uli K and Kamixlo, Bala Club emerged around 2016 as a necessity for these two young brothers, and for the electronic scene itself to escape from its conventions and to create something new. Since then Bala Club have been recruiting many other new members such as Endgame, Mechatok, Yayoyanoh and Organ Tapes. Some already well known artists are affiliated with them too, such as Yung Lean, Bladee and Ecco2k. Furthermore, Bala have attracted the attention of legendary producers such as Aphex Twin (who remixed Kamixlo’s ‘Paleta’ live at Primavera Sound) and several European underground festivals and events where they have been invited to play.
Bala Club has a wide range of sounds: from industrial metallic electroshocks to angelical hyper-cheesy autotuned acapellas. The amount of possibilities between those two poles is really huge. However, Bala’s products have two common denominators: fusion and blending. Their members have redefined music genres by mixing them with apparently opposite ones such as reggaeton and industrial or dembow and ambient, reshaping them into something new.
Apart from digital releases, Bala Club deals with fashion and unusually defined imagery. They constantly throw parties in basements (and currently play around Europe) where the main aesthetic elements by its members (mostly the two brothers) are wrestling masks, bold makeup, goth complements, angel wings and colourful hairstyles. Nevertheless, they always claim their parties are inclusive events where everyone must feel comfortable and have a good time independently from his/her style, so their audience is as varied as their music styles.
Here we have prepared for you some Bala Club’s fruits:
Uli K is the angel of Bala Club. He sings the most melodic songs, with soft and calm vocals. His are slow rapped tracks, sometimes in Spanish and sometimes in English, about depression, love and raw feelings.
Kamixlo explores the most risky and experimental sounds. Industrial dembow, trash reggaeton, call it whatever you want. Noisy raw beats with drilling sounds and iterative vocal samples.
Yayoyanoh plays with dembow rhythmic patterns overlapping with experimental R&B vocals and candy tunes. A dark melancholic atmosphere surrounds most of his songs.
Endgame’s music has no frontiers. He can throw hard progressive noise and then change into a slow broken tempo with confusing drums and a wide range of electronic sounds.
Words: Blai Subirats
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Yayoyanoh - Self-Titled (2018)
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RnB, Electronic
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No Time (Prod. Woesum & Bumjin) by YAYOYANOH
Artwork by @blu174
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Yayoyanoh Ft Organ Tapes 'Off Road'
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