Safire & QQQ Akane
Safire & QQQ Akane are bound by creativity and community. They act as the collaborative glue – connecting people, experience and art – leveraging their craft of audio and visual design to stew a melting pot of releases, record labels, technical masterclasses, raves and inclusive artistic spaces that place emphasis on community.
Safire & QQQ Akane are bound by creativity and community. They act as the collaborative glue – connecting people, experience and art – leveraging their craft of audio and visual design to stew a melting pot of releases, record labels, technical masterclasses, raves and inclusive artistic spaces that place emphasis on community.
As artists independently, they have hit their respective heights. Ben Safire has toured extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the South Pacific, representing Australian Drum and Bass on a global scale. As a musician and event curator, he has built the foundations of bass music in Melbourne, working locally with grassroots artists and internationally with the likes of Alix Perez, Dub Phizix, Noisia, Zed Bias and DLR, to name but a few. To limit QQQ Akane as a visual artist would be an injustice. While she is well known for her creative collaboration with Metalheadz boss Goldie and visual art with record label Plasma Audio, QQQ Akane is an enigma of creativity that flows from fashion and dance to vocalism and music production.
Slowly Rushing, the debut LP from the seasoned duo, broods warmth, taking notes from jazz, dub, hip hop and bass music to hypnotically wrap around your consciousness like a snake to a snake charmer. QQQ Akane calls on her indigenous Amami roots of storytelling and musical styling that simultaneously feel grounded, while taking you further down the rabbit hole.
Safire & QQQAkane
- Slowly Rushing
Slowly Rushing is out now digitally and on limited edition vinyl via Heavy Machinery Records.
