Techno was created and developed far away from the mainstream. The underground sound got its deserved popularity in the past few years but there is a lot of movement in sound with sub-genres and a lot of talent you may not hear about.
We believe underground producers and labels deserve special recognition, so we will be dedicating our new feature series to this cause.
This week we will have a look into a true underground icon, Discwoman co-founder Umfang.
As Umfang, Emma Burgess-Olson produces raw, unique techno on analog hardware, recording everything in a single take with a negligible sum of post-production.
Propelled by early Detroit techno and corrosive house, the self-taught musician’s visceral, openly streaming tracks are scanty and lo-fi but motor and listener-friendly. Burgess-Olson was born within the Bronx but developed up in Kansas, and in the long run moved to Brooklyn in 2010.
In 2013, she started a month to month residency at Brooklyn’s Bossa Nova Civic Club called Technofeminism, and she co-founded the Discwoman collective the taking after year.
Serving as a stage and booking office centering on female-identifying DJs and electronic artists, Discwoman has curated occasions in over a dozen cities since its arrangement, and has earned wide recognition from the move music press. Umfang’s to begin with discharge, a cassette titled Alright, showed up on Canadian label in 2015.
She enjoys playing with people’s expectations of how a techno set can be defined. Her amorphous polyrhythmic productions have been most recently released on Ninja Tune. In December 2020 she released her album ‘Camber’.
