Introspekt is the protagonist of soundsystem music’s femme-forward future – Features

Through experimentations with the UK garage sound, Introspekt recontextualizes it in a way that reprioritizes Black, queer, and femme perspectives in dance music. “One of the biggest meta narrative themes of the album is the idea that sometimes the form which something inhabits is not really reflective of its essence,” she explains. “I definitely think that the spirit, the soul, of the tracks is very different from what’s kind of being captured in modern UK garage.”

Introspekt is still defining the contrasting yet connected concepts of form and essence, and how these ideas relate to her craft. For instance, while ‘Moving The Center’ utilises garage’s foundational two-step rhythms throughout its entirety, it can’t rightly be categorised as a garage album, with further sonic and thematic exploration that makes it much more. 

“In my thinking—informed by my maternal cultural background, training in Qigong, and experience of gender and embodied sex transition—there’s a complex relationship between form and essence,” Introspekt explains. “The relationship is marked, partially, by difference, but also by a dynamic unity structured via a shared point of origin.”

“In other words, that which is nameable, visually observable, or superficially apparent, only constitutes one side of things,” she continues. “The more enigmatic, essential side of things — while not to be confused as the singularly important aspect — is another side that I feel must be given consideration.”

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