Michael Diamond
Born in Kerala, India, producer and DJ Michael Diamond emigrated to Great Britain with his parents when he was young. “Although I've loved and soaked up the culture of the UK growing up, I am still viewed by many as a foreigner”, he says. “On the other hand, when I return to India I am seen and treated as a Westerner. Over time, this has left me feeling that, whilst I possess aspects of both cultures, I don't truly belong to either one.”
It's just these feelings of disconnection which have inspired the music that forms Diamond's debut LP, Third Culture. Channeling the trauma of fractured identity into dense, saturnine dance music, the record shrouds intricate, knotty drum patterns in moody synths and jazz-inflected atmospheres that recall classic Deep Medi dubstep as much as Floating Points’ vivid and cinematic electronica. We're definitely fans.
Collaborator Alex Wilson's evocative saxophone solos book-end the record, while Áine Kim Kennedy's words give context to the
