Taking inspiration from DJs playing back-to-back, bringing their individual styles into conversation to improvise something new in response to the audience, back2back is an inclusive programme that celebrates east London’s creative community.
Upcoming events
Up Ya Archives x Rendezvous Projects
Taking the Amen break as a connective thread, Up Ya Archives reimagines the archive as something living, collective and in motion. Co-curated with Rendezvous Projects, the programme explores how music travels across time and geography, and how histories are constructed, circulated and contested.
Through DJ sets, talks, workshops and screenings, this back2back will trace the past, present and future of jungle, foregrounding the hyper-local infrastructures of East London that have sustained the genre and its wider ecosystems, from pirate radio and record shops to visual culture and community-led archiving.
Developed in dialogue with The Music is Black: A British Story exhibition, this takeover moves through a constellation of sonic encounters beyond display, honouring originators while amplifying the voices shaping what comes next.
