Born to Nigerian parents and based in Virginia, USA, Chino Amobi – alongside his counterparts – forms NON: a collective of African artists, and of the diaspora, using sound as their primary media, to articulate the visible and invisible structures that create binaries in society, and in turn distribute power.

Key releases such as Airport Music for Black Folk and his Izlämic Europe collaboration with Rabit wove music and politics in a way other artists of his generation didn't and don't dare, exemplifying his strengths in providing unified themes and subversive insight to the wider consciousness.

It's no push to see and hear echoes at this level of grassroots, autonomous agency and concerted organisation in early 90's UR or in the way grime made its first, viral moves in the mid 00's.
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