Wu-Lu

Brixton-based artist Wu-Lu is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and vocalist, as well as an engineer and producer, whose uncommonly dynamic work as a collaborator and solo artist traverses jazz, R&B, hip-hop, punk, metal, and virtually every underground club sound birthed in his native South London. While Wu-Lu has often been classified as part of London's jazz scene -- due in some part to his work on recordings by Nubya Garcia and Zara McFarlane -- his solo output is undeniably vast in scope. It ranges from the atmospheric Ginga (2015), a primarily instrumental beat tape, to the bristling Loggerhead (2022), his Warp label debut, a zeitgeist-capturing collision of punk and hip-hop further distinguished by elements of drum'n'bass, dub, and folk.