Isaac Muk

3 days ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

This Q+A was first featured in Huck’s culture newsletter. Sign up to the mailing list here for more exclusive interviews, cultural dispatches and monthly recommendations. It’s mid-afternoon, and James Massiah is out of breath. The rapper, DJ, producer, London underground scene staple, and founder of alt-poetry night Adult Entertainment, has just cycled from Dalston, in east London, all the way to his familial home in south London.

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

Two Gazan amputee para-cyclists, Alaa al-Dali and Mohamed Asfour, have qualified for the Para-Cycling World Championships. The feat came as they secured Palestine’s first-ever top 20 finish at the Para-Cycling World Cup, which took place in Belgium at the weekend. The 2025 Para-Cycling Road World Championships will take place between August 28-31 in Ronse, Belgium. Both cyclists have been evacuated from Gaza in the wake of the ongoing humanitarian disaster in the Strip.

1 week ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

A new documentary, Free Party: A Folk History, which dives into the rise and fall of free parties and the UK’s rave culture, will be released to the public at the end of the month (May 30). Directed by Aaron Trinder, the film will feature first-hand recounting of the scene’s birth by some of its most important crews and artists, including DiY Soundsystem, Spiral Tribe, Bedlam, Circus Warp, Colin Dale and Charlie Hall.

2 weeks ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

On the docks of a small fishing village on São Miguel’s north coast, the largest island of the Portuguese Azores archipelago, around 50 musicians take to the stage. They’re all wearing hooded capes, with each responsible for a different part – a drum, synthesiser, microphone or stringed instrument. Standing in front of them, Ricardo Baptista begins to wave his arms frantically, and the music begins.

2 weeks ago | huckmag.com | Isaac Muk

object blue usually feels nervous before taking to the stage. Knowing that there will only be the single, present moment to perform, the London-based DJ and producer can often get “existential”. But on pressing play – and in particular, on a track with triplets – those jitters quickly disappear, and the moment shrinks to pure focus between herself, the music, and the crowd, as she finds herself in the much-treasured ‘flow state’.