Wide Awake: Black Vinyl LP BF20 and Southern Swag as elemental

and Southern Swag as elemental

Matt Colton

he retraces this remarkable and unlikely journey

and love was intense and beautiful for me

Wide Awake: Black Vinyl LP BF20 and Southern Swag as elementalAnyone familiar with electronic music will know Mechatok, aka Emir Timur Tokdemir. He made his name touring globally and releasing a series of records and collaborations with some of the most forward thinking artists of the past decade, from Drain Gang (Bladee, Ecco2k, Whitearmor, Thaiboy Digital) to Charli XCX to Lorenzo Senni. Often subtle in delivery, these works circulated widely across underground and adjacent mainstream scenes, subtly shaping