The EMOM movement didn’t wait for permission. It rose out of pubs, basements and backroom venues across the UK—no managers, no VIP lists, no industry parasites sniffing around for a cut. Just people who love electronic music dragging their synths, drum machines and laptops out of the bedroom and onto tiny stages that hum with dodgy cables and raw energy. 

EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic) nights are proof that electronic music is alive, human and gloriously imperfect. You can hear techno next to ambient next to glitch-pop next to something nobody has a name for yet. It isn’t corporate. It isn’t curated. It’s independent, messy and full of heart—community in stereo. If you want authenticity, this is where it lives.

🎧 EMOM (Electronic Music Open Mic)

This is the sound of brains that don’t run in straight lines. Songs built in bedrooms at 3AM. Glitchy hearts. Noisy beauty. Sharp edges and strange feelings stitched together with wires, tape and stubborn hope. Indie for people who don’t quite fit the algorithm and never wanted to anyway.

🎧 Indie Neurodivergent Voices

Kick Lizard - Everything is Fuzzy (Rashamon Romp Mix)

The world's about to end but don't you worry, don't you stress. Just keep on scrolling... 

This is the second single from ‘Every Shadow Has A Name’ the debut album of electronic artist Kick Lizard - a solo songwriter/producer/performer based in Brighton, UK.

The song is a vocal frustration about Climate Change denial in the face of the possible collapse of civilisation forecast to happen between 20 and 50 years from now.

The album arrived as an unexpected journey into the autistic/ADHD experience. Anger and resentment manifest themselves unexpectedly in upbeat melodic tones, driving beats and dirty guitar.

It leans towards a blend of electronic pop and a more industrial tone—all with solid backbeats and a hefty dose of ‘wibberly synths’ and trancey vibes.

The overarching theme of ‘Every Shadow Has A Name’ is about survival/masking in an unfriendly, sometimes confusing, sometimes hostile world and is dedicated to all the other shadows and 'misfits' out there…

Outtasight (The Rate of Change)

Just Unusual (Rage+Fear+Love) is a celebration of the outsiders, the ones who never quite slot into the neat categories the world keeps trying to impose on us. It's one for all the neurodivergentz, and for anyone who’s ever felt out of step with the rhythm around them.

The track is shimmering synths, punchy beats. It’s upbeat on the surface, but the lyrics cut darker. Rage, fear, and love collide in a single breath: the messy cocktail of emotions that define what it means to live differently, and to live honestly.

This isn’t about pity or platitudes. It’s about defiance. About finding power in being 'just unusual', in embracing the label instead of shrinking from it. The song turns alienation into an anthem, reworking frustration and longing into something you can shout, sing, and dance to.

It’s a reminder that the things that set us apart are the same things that make us vital. BPM: 120

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Just Unusual (Rage + Fear + Love)

Those rare moments when life briefly makes sense (or just the quiet dream of finally being accepted), like you have slipped into the version of yourself you were meant to be. They never last, but maybe that is why they matter.

Floating somewhere between nostalgia and hope, On A Soft Cloud (Time Slips Away) drifts through that strange place that we sometimes visit, where everything just works. Where we work. But he moment is fleeting. There is always the sense that they won't last, that we've read things wrong, that we will be brought down to Earth with a crashing bump.

Built for late-night headphones and souls held together with tape and stubbornness. Close your eyes. Let it pull you forward. Time slips either way.

On A Soft Cloud (Time Slips Away)

Crush

Italian DJ/producer Qubiko has recently been turning heads with his signature bouncing basslines and feel-good sound, remixing the likes of Sonny Fodera, Dennis Cruz and Joeski as well as releasing an impressive discography of his own material. Now, following on from the ‘These Days EP’ he released on Defected, Qubiko makes a stellar debut on DFTD, the label that brings you all things club inclined. Comprised of two tracks, ‘U R’ is an upfront delivery of house heat, with both cuts ready to set dancefloors alight this summer.

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Qubiko 'U R'

Flood Network

Only to Trip and Fall Down Again

Overthink

Formed in 2002 with a deliberate misspelling of the Kurosawa film, Rashamon favours skewed melodic, glitched pop with hip hop and post rock leanings.  Has been an on/off act at Spirit of Gravity in Brighton, once got played on Radio 1, had a nice review in the wire and has some proper releases on all manner of streaming services.  Latest stuff to be found at Bandcamp - see links below.