Chino Amobi

Virginia-based producer Chino Amobi is among the co-founders of NON World-wide, a collective of experimental artists from the African diaspora. Amobi’s function is an extreme, politically billed collision of styles including grime, dark ambient, commercial, and spoken phrase, laced with gunshots, sonic booms, and various other unsettling sounds. Amobi was created in Alabama to Nigerian parents, and started producing experimental hip-hop along with his sibling as a teenager. He attended artwork college at Virginia Commonwealth College or university, and began to develop his deconstructionist audio collage style. Primarily recording beneath the moniker Gemstone Dark Hearted Boy, he released many digital albums, paths, and DJ mixes, and a few limited physical produces on labels such as for example Disaro and Steak Au Zoo. Amobi retired Gemstone Dark Hearted Boy in 2014 and started issuing recordings under his very own name. THE FANTASTIC Game: Independence from Mental Poisoning (The Purification from the Furies), a cooperation with Rabit, made an appearance in past due 2015, as do Amobi’s Anya’s Backyard EP. The entire year 2016 brought further collaborations with Rabit, aswell as Dedekind Cut and Johnny Utterback, and NON released Amobi’s mini-album Airport terminal Music for Dark Folk, documented during an musician residency in Berlin. The acclaimed discharge was released on CD the next season by Japanese label P-Vine Information. Also in 2017, The Vinyl fabric Factory released Amobi’s soundtrack to Ligia Lewis’ efficiency piece Small Matter. NON and UNO NYC co-released Paradiso, a 21-monitor dystopian epic offering guest performances from Haleek Maul, Dutch E Germ, Elysia Crampton, and many more.