“Electronic music has long engaged with the concept of the future, and Crampton’s depiction of it is highly politicised, repudiating both the whitewashed, Eurocentric version of America’s history and the sanitised, exclusionary notion of the future that springs forth from it. “We should be careful to consider exactly what future we are defaulting to, and what ways we have been taught to engage this default-future,” she says. “As someone who is brown, someone who is queer—struggling to exist as both—my relationship with the future has been precious because it’s where my positivity can take flight, where the narratives I embody / live / create, jettison out and into being, full of hope and energy.”

Breaking through: Elysia Crampton by Maya Kalev, Resident Advisor.