Delicate and dense, the late-night apparatus that is Blood Of Aza has a sense of being always on the edge of collapse. Emerging from the online underground, her shadowed ambient textures and distorted pop edits move fluidly between the intimate and the monumental, fragile melodies submerged beneath dense, shape-shifting rhythms that pulse with a distinctly digital melancholy. Textures ooze between ghost-ambient drone and ruptured power electronics, songs drifting in a limbo at once hypnotic and disorienting. DJ sets flow from glitched-out lullabies and vaporous synth textures to distorted breaks and devotional crescendos.

Situated within London’s ever-shifting music scene and part of a new wave of producers redefining the emotional language of electronic music, she channels themes of alienation and transformation through intricate sound design and intuitive pacing. From her 2022 debut on Soul Feeder to new productions for herself and other sonic oddballs (peep her new release with Sissy Misfit for a taste) distinctions between the internet-born and the spiritual dissolve into transmissions from another emotional frequency, every track a fragment of a larger, haunted continuum.

• SHANK (CLUB EDITS), by Blood of Aza

• SHANK (CLUB EDITS), by Blood of Aza