Sicaria Sound were an electronic music duo composed of Lou Nour and Sancha Ndeko.
History
Lou Nour (FKA Imbratura) was born and raised in London with full Moroccan heritage. Sancha Ndeko is South-Sudanese and English and was born in Sheffield, grew up in Ghana and Nigeria before moving back to the UK to live in Bournemouth prior to settling in London.
Having met at the back of a lecture hall at university where they were both studying Geography, they bonded over
Fabric nightclub as well as their joint love for bass heavy music, particularly
dubstep. They began attending nights together, which they have stated as being seminal in creating the foundations for Sicaria Sound.
Whilst living together, they started to learn how to mix. After university they both worked in radio production.
They are the first resident DJs for the
Deep Medi Musik
Deep Medi Musik is a British dubstep label founded in 2006 by artist Mala.
The label describes the common theme between releases as “music that you can feel”. As a tradition, every time an artist new to the label gets signed, their first re ...
label, and have played events such as
Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival (formally Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and known colloquially as Glasto) is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place in Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemp ...
,
Boomtown Festival,
Outlook Festival
Outlook Festival is a musical event, started as a subsidiary of Leeds event SubDub, hosting all kinds of bass music. Previously, the festival was held just outside the city of Pula, Croatia. However, the coming of a new era for the festival has app ...
and
Atlas Electronic
Atlas Electronic is a Moroccan-Dutch organization that organizes an annual music festival in Marrakesh. Its members operate from Morocco and the Netherlands, aiming to support various organizations and their projects in Morocco; according to ''T ...
. Since 2018 they have held a monthly residency on
Rinse FM where they focus on playing new material from underground artists. In 2020 they launched their Cutcross imprint to “champion the melting pot of bass-centric sounds teetering around 140 BPM…whilst spotlighting underground artists" with the label's first release being a four track multi-artist EP. In March 2021 they made their production debut with their first EP 'Binate'.
At the end of 2021 the duo announced that they would no longer be performing together due 'health and well-being reasons'. The split was amicable. Sancha Ndeko continues to DJ and release music under the name Mia Koden, as does Nour under the name Sicaria.
References
Electronic music duos
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