Dance OK Please 116: Madboy, Synths Back, L.Y.D @ Khar Social, Mumbai

Dance OK Please 116: Madboy, Synths Back, L.Y.D @ Khar Social, Mumbai Thursday, March 17th 2022 @ Khar Social 8 pm onwards Free Entry ___________ Madboy: MADBOY1, the Electronic solo project of Imaad Shah, is based out of Mumbai, India. His sound is influenced by Disco, House and Electro-Funk with lush soundscapes, classic drum machine sounds, live guitar, and synthesizers2. Madboy is one half of popular Electro-Funk duo Madboy/Mink3. The solo Madboy project is his playground as a producer, with touches of Acid, Lo-Fi House, Synthwave, Electro Soul, Sample heavy cuts and his trademark songwriting4. He has released two well-received EPs5, 'Boy'6 and 'Dream Delite7' as well as a handful of singles and reworks including a release on Nowadays Records, Paris. He is played to audiences across the country at almost every live music venue in Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata, and other cities as well as a bunch of festivals. He has also played at Red Light Radio, Amsterdam; Sorte Firkante, Copenhagen, and played with Asha Puthli at Le Guess Who? Festival in the Netherlands. He has one music video out for the song Naked Soul and has a few singles, a full-length album, and a new music video in the works for this year. Synths Back: An Ode to the Synthesiser, This DJ/Producer is bringing Back the ‘80s Sounds Abhishek Chanda, popularly known as Synths Back gets his alias from his obsession with the synthesizer. For a boy who grew up on the islands of Andaman and Nicobar, his exploration for jazz, funk, and soul brought him to the mainland. After it dawned on him that his sounds would be a unification of retro synth and futuristic house and afro grooves, he then went on to create his single ‘Luna’ in 2018. He has released music that includes the remix of Fake Tattoos’ single ‘Arambol’ and a club version of Monolink’s ‘Sirens’ which has Abhishek’s spin with percussion and synth. His 2021 downtempo EP ‘Kioku’ released on Krunk Kulture gained attention from Mixmag, Rolling Stone & Official Humans of Music. L.Y.D: L.Y.D. aka Lydia Hendrikje Hornung is a singer, composer, DJ and vocal instructor from Germany. As a singer, she is versatile: inspired by many different music styles and influenced by sounds from Brazil to India. She’s been involved in a number of different jazz, world music and popular music projects and collaborations. As a DJ, she serves the crowd fresh Hip Hop, Funk, Neo-RnB and Afrobeat selections. Her background as a composer and singer shows in the ways her DJ sets flow: genres are melting into each other smoothly, playing with fat beats, lush vocals and mesmerizing harmony; Hip Hop and Funk at its core, but heavily decorated with percussive and vocal textures from all over the world.