Turf Blog

We are more familiar with, ‘who influences you’, that phrasing cordons your thinking from the thinking of others temporarily, but the ‘thinking in you’ implies a liveness and active presence.

We enter a mangrove thicket. Sticky humid air. Their upward roots are snorkels breathing oxygen into their submerged body.

This was a time of social unrest and the emergence of a counterculture, with anarchist roots in the emerging punk scene.

Artist-run culture balances on the knife edge of precarity and vitality. This has always been the tradeoff for resisting institutionalisation - these projects burn bright but quick.

How people make home in places not designed to be lived in reveals a specific kind of magic.

Is it one or the other? Permanent is permanent, a concrete word. It is not permanent-ish, surely?

Nammy Wams is a British Vietnamese-Chinese London-based music producer and DJ specialising in Grime, UK Drill, and the related-sounds. This is his set at Turf.