20g is the fourth annual compilation from ONNO — a sonic map of India’s outer-edge electronic and experimental music scenes. Featuring 20 acts from across the country, this 90-minute release is both a document and a departure: a collective assertion of presence from voices pushing boundaries in India’s electronic and experimental landscape.

An introduction to a thriving, underexplored ecosystem of sound, 20g is shaped by artists working beyond genre and convention.

Featuring contributions from: Nithin Shams, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Krishna Jhaveri, ORIENTAL SYSTEMS, Digging In India, Disco Puppet, Sawhorse, Pardafash, Somnium Monkey, Taka Dao, breaking, Catatacat, Priyaji, philterSoup, Khuss, flux vortex, Sourya Sen, ExSHA, kidsinthejungle, and Ayush Sayalkar.

Catatacat - Noisy Neighbour

ExSHA - اشعر بالنسيم (Feeling The Breeze)

Disco Puppet - Fuck Your God

breaking - message to an angel

Pardafash - Ember

philterSoup - SHUNNO

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay - Terra Libera - Alaap

Digging In India - R00SHI

Somnium Monkey - The Mad King

Khuss - Echo

Krishna Jhaveri - Listening is a gateway drug

Nithin Shams - bbai bbai

kidisinthejungle - remembering ishrat meenai

ORIENTAL SYSTEMS - Ritual II

Sawhorse - The Peaceless Coexistence of Multiple Truths

Taka Dao - Gaytown

Priyaji - Breath In Witness

flux vortex - prune

Sourya Sen - _dustlight

Ayush Sayalkar - miss you so

On her debut release for ONNO, Goa-based composer, producer, and visual artist Skulk (the moniker of Katyayini Gargi) presents Skin — a twelve-track, forty-minute album that marks her sophomore emergence with renewed confidence and clarity. Primarily synth-driven, the record places her voice at the centre, bold and brimming with her quirky, raw energy, and woven into inventive sound design.

Structured in two six-track halves, Skin is divided between the inside and the outside; the personal and the political. The A side turns inward, with songs that are more literal and instructional; concerned with — how not to drown — in the everyday; the churning sea that is life. The B side bears witness to the world beyond the self, transforming that same question — how not to drown — into a metaphor for navigating the socio-political and collective, which still feels deeply intimate. The political is personal, too. Together, the two halves mirror a continuous oscillation between reflection and response, self and society. The album culminates with “Free”, a cathartic, tongue-in-cheek, cloud-busting anthem for moments when it all becomes too much to bear.

Skin stands as Skulk’s most assured work yet — a self-portrait in motion, where she grows more comfortable in her own skin while refining her craft as lyricist, producer, and sound sculptor.

Tingles in the heart

Scratch my back

Something divine

Alarm

Aa/ja

Summertime

Creeper

Quagmire

Free

Skin

Censor (9 to life)

Running

Goa-based composer, producer, and visual artist Skulk introduces Skin — a new single from her upcoming album of the same name, released via ONNO.

Skin starts off with social voyeurism — only seeing the hyped-up, good slivers of what someone presents on digital platforms. Upon this superficial enquiry, though, the woman in the song looks within; well under her veneered skin suit, and finds anchors to her ship, strings to her kite.

Skulk (the moniker of Katyayini Gargi) is a Goa-based composer, producer, and visual artist. Active since 2017, her work merges synth-driven experimentation with a distinctly visual approach to sound — building eccentric yet intimate worlds.

Skulk - Skin [Single]

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