Manuka Honey

Sobre

Bringing chaos, sensuality and ecstatic motion to her productions and selections, Manuka Honey circles club music's most compelling fringes. In just a few short years, she's cultivated an idiosyncratic sound that's shuttled her from continent to continent, assembling a tight catalog of EPs, remixes and singles that harness the energy of Latin-American and Caribbean dance sounds, infusing it into radical new structures. A DJ, producer, multi-disciplinary artist and professional astrologer, Marissa Malik was born and raised in the US before she relocated to London, bringing her hot, humid aura to rainy England. She's animated by the complex alchemy of the dance floor, and as likely to reference experimental sounds as she is cumbia or dembow. Manuka Honey's dreamworld is brimming with psychedelic, serrated synths, bouncy bass and rattling percussion. Malik's skill as a DJ netted her a residency on the prestigious BBC Radio 1 this year, and she's already maintained a four-year residency on London's Rinse FM, inviting artists like Ana Luisa, Sarra Wild, Mun Sing and TEYKIRISI to dive headfirst into the unknown. But her spirited, passionate performances have to be experienced in person. Performing everywhere from the Netherlands' Rewire Festival to Panorama Bar in Berlin, she spritzes kinetic sounds from the diaspora - like Venezuelan Turreo and Shatta from Martinique - with stormy, industrial pressure.