Inkswel

Inkswel generates plentiful supplies of funk, hip-hop, and house that drive bodies into motion. The Adelaide, Australia native, active since 2009, has consistently applied both studious and instinctive retro sensibilities across every dance-music style he has tackled. His sizable catalog contains numerous 12" singles and full-length projects on respected labels such as BBE, Sonar Kollektiv, Compost, and Tokyo Dawn. Eager to collaborate, he has completed albums alongside the Australian production team the Jungle Sessions, London singer Colonel Red, and Bronx MC People Without Shoes. Talib Kweli, Steve Spacek, and Georgia Anne Muldrow represent only a single-digit percentage of the vocalists appearing on his recordings. Inkswel released the fourth volume of his Superfoods series in 2023.

A one-time B-boy born Jules Habib, he regards himself principally as a DJ, an outlook that partly accounts for the sheer scope of his output. From 2009 through 2015 he built his name via well over a dozen 7" and 12" singles on Dopeness Galore, Lumberjacks in Hell, and sublabels of Rush Hour and Firecracker, among other outlets. Further short-form material continued to appear even as longer projects brought equal recognition. Those efforts commenced with Superfoods, Vol. 1 in 2015 and extended through the decade’s end with the second and third Superfoods installments, Unity 4 Utopia, Secret River (a joint effort with the Jungle Sessions), and The Sound. In 2020 alone he joined forces separately with Pugs Atomz (aka Pugslee Atomz), People Without Shoes, and Colonel Red for The Moon, Plasma Platter, and Benjamin's Ghost, Vol. 1. The following year he issued Astral Love, spotlighting vocal contributions from Dwight Trible and Andrew Ashong, and inaugurated another series with the largely instrumental Mind Beats, Vol. 1. His 2022 releases encompassed Holders of the Sun, Vol. 1, yet another Colonel Red partnership, plus Follow the Stars, which included the U.K. jazz group the Nimbus Sextet and modern funkster Moniquea among its featured artists. Inkswel assembled Superfoods, Vol. 4 in 2023.