Tracks

From the South London underground to commercial ‘brostep’ the club genre has been adored and reviled in equal measure

How can we communicate without internet and 5G? Tracks meets fans of off grid communication in London, Barcelona, and Bologna.

From London to Amsterdam, the Eastern Margins collective is raising the temperature in the Asian alternative scene.

The Argentinian duo talk about their lives: their musical influences, their friendship, their touring, and how Sting helped them to meditate.

Coupé-Décalé got the world dancing in the early 2000s. Today, its little brother, biama, is going through the roof.

Gothic aliens on platform heels, demonic mermaids and giant insects... Could the monstrous become the new beauty standard?

With ecstatic dancing and rare soul records, the Northern Soul subculture is experiencing a resurgence.

Some artists are rejecting the loss of physical contact with art in the digital world: Join us as we go analogue.

From queer cake sitting to sex positive tasting evenings, Tracks finds out about food and sexuality.

American rock band Turnstile share their influences with Thin Lizzy and My Chemical Romance among their favourites.

In Ireland a new generation of musicians and artists are reinventing folk traditions. 

 Artists Satch Hoyt and Juan Covelli challenge colonial narratives and spark debate about the restitution of cultural artefacts.

Afour-day festival out in the desert next to the dried-up Aral Sea, attracts locals and foreigners alike to this party in the desert.

Unreal, hypersexualised, mutant bodies... In VRChat, desire is embodied in 3D, sex becomes a performance and fantasy a (virtual) reality. 

As a child of the early internet, Matt Stephenson created Machine Girl as a mirror of another era: 90s video games, B-movies, obscure YouTube videos and absurd humour. 

Drag, pain and glitter meet political activism in the wrestling shows of the American Choke Hole crew. 

Tracks visits the DIY scene in Berlin and Leipzig and meets people who are building spaces, labels and workshops with no money but a lot of passion.

Geolier, Italy’s most streamed rapper, doesn’t perform in Italian but in Neapolitan. And he’s not alone.

Tracks meets the pioneers of upcycling in London and Paris who create unique items and wearable works of art.

The story of a wealthy man saving a ‘fallen’ woman has become a cliché (Pretty Woman, Anora), far from the reality of prostitution. But what if sex workers told their own stories through art?