Apex Anomaly: Early Career Promoter Fund
Concise Description: Black trans-led electronic music experience blending immersive social space and underground club energy, centring Black-rooted dance music, community access, and emerging artist development.
Bio: Apex Anomaly’s sxyblkppl might be the project in this scene that most aggressively refuses containment. A techno, ballroom, juke, jersey club and amapiano Afro house rave, it draws from traditions that are all rooted in Black and queer communities using music and movement as modes of survival, self-invention and communal belonging.
Sxyblkppl brings these lineages into the same room and asks: what happens when Black people who have been doubly and triply marginalised by race, by queerness, by gender nonconformity, are centred? The answer is one of the most genuinely underground things happening in British club culture right now. Non-conforming, expansive, explicitly committed to representing Blackness in its full range and sxyblkppl is proof that the underground has always had more room in it than the gatekeepers suggested sxyblkppl will use the funding to celebrate a 1st year anniversary , bringing activities and music into the same space. Contiuning on to multiple parties across the year in pursuit of a venue to remain home.