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Toronto’s Obuxum creates her own sonic past and future

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If you’ve never heard the work of Toronto-based OBUXUM before, the Somali-Canadian producer herself would describe it as a narrative journey that requires active listening.

Part industrial synths and part smoothed-out electro R&B, her genre-defying music is as diverse as it is richly political.

Her mostly-instrumental projects use vocal samples like Viola Davis’ acceptance speech at the 2015 Golden Globes and a woman reporting on gender-based violence in Somalia as its lyrical backbone atop fluttering production, giving her music its pulsing, ugent core. “There’s so much that I pack within a song: there’s a lot of details, texture, space, and colors,” she explained.

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