In São Paulo’s contested centro, the underGRANDE scene transformed nightlife into a form of cultural guerrilla. Through parties like Mamba Negra, abandoned factories and occupied buildings became spaces of queer autonomy, collective survival and political confrontation. Tracing fifteen years of independent electronic culture, Laura Diaz maps a movement where celebration operates as resistance, memory and refusal against gentrification, repression and neoliberal capture.

Drone music stretches from medieval cathedrals and folk instruments to contemporary experimental sound, carrying a lineage of ritual, dissonance and altered perception. Moving through bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies and modular synthesis, Hannah Pezzack traces drone as both sacred resonance and sonic disruption: a communal form that dissolves authorship, bends time and turns listening into embodied experience.

Before Polish hip-hop had a name, Ursynów was already producing the frequencies that would transform Warsaw’s concrete outskirts into an incubator for a distinctly local urban imagination. In the grey, hollow metropolis of late socialism, post-punk experiments, children’s futurism and proto-rap broadcasts collided inside the tower blocks. Through three critical snapshots, Filip Kalinowski uncovers the underground circuitry that turned urban alienation into the foundations of a new cultural language.