Inter-Zone: NON vs NAAFI - Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York

Global labels NON and N.A.A.F.I meet, featuring Angel-Ho, Chino Amobi, Dedekind Cut, Elysia Crampton, Gaika, LAO, Mexican Jihad, Nkisi, Rabit, Scraaatch, Total Freedom May 20 Tropical 128 128 Elizabeth St, Manhattan $10 // Tickets at Door 10PM 21+ #RBMANYC Set times: Upstairs 10pm - 4am NON (Chino Amobi, Angel-Ho, Nkisi) vs. N.A.A.F.I (Lao, Mexican Jihad) Downstairs 10pm Dedekind Cut 11pm Scraaatch 12am Total Freedom 1am Gaika (live) 2am Rabit 3am Elysia Crampton Hot on the heels of their revolutionary NON vs. N.A.A.F.I mixtape, Red Bull Music Academy teams up with this pair of genre-defying global labels for a night of radical statements in sound. Following NON’s Legacy Systems event at Manhattan’s New Museum, crew representatives Chino Amobi, Nkisi and Angel-Ho venture deeper downtown for a dance party that wraps the music of the modern African diaspora, the Latin world and the near cyberfuture into its fold. NON is joined by Bolivian-American sonic collagist Elysia Crampton, Texas’ technoir futurist Rabit, London art rap wizard Gaika and Philly duo Scraaatch, alongside Academy alumnus LAO and Mexican Jihad from Mexico City’s bass-fuelled crew-of-the-moment N.A.A.F.I – as well as confrontational club music experts Dedekind Cut and Total Freedom.