Description
On a tiny dancefloor in a falafel restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts called ZuZu, a crew of queer artists called KUNQ began to take shape. As a word that signifies the irreverent musical and cultural ideas that they share – queer, punk, cunt, crunk – KUNQ is a banner under which Micah Domingo, Rizzla, Battyjack, False Witness, SHYBOI, Kilbourne, Stud1nt and FXWRK operate as DJs, producers, video artists and vocalists. Now based in New York City and inspired by parties such as Venus X’s GHE20GOTH1K, the KUNQ sound is an intensely hybrid one. Drawing on R&B, pop and rap vocals, black and Latin diasporic genres such as dancehall and dembow, and forward-thinking electronic club sounds, it's all brought together with an intense mesh of samples, rapid-fire mixing styles and a playfully antagonistic attitude to DJ and production conventions.
