With a background in classical piano and composition, Emika brings a fresh new voice to the ever-evolving world of electronic music. Mixing dark textures with articulate vocals, her recent releases on Ninja Tune have been causing a real stir.
She describes herself as “making pop, but with a hard edge, playing different sounds and intensities against each other. I try to stay on the fence, leaving from for the listener to create a sense of what its about. It’s all about tension for me.”
Having lived through the formative years of the recent global explosion in bass music coming out of Bristol, she now lives in Berlin where she works as a sound designer for Native Instruments.
“I am focused on the world of sound and the power of the human voice, the instant connections it makes with listeners, in music. In general I feel there is a lack of vocabulary in the field of electronic music.”
