Errol & Alex Rita

Touching Bass began, quite simply, as two people wanting to hear better music played with more intention. Founded by Errol and Alex Rita in South London, what started as a club night has grown into a wider musical movement — spanning a long-running NTS Radio residency, a record label home to artists like Demae and cktrl, a concert series, and a curatorial studio that has worked with institutions from Tate to the Venice Biennale. At its core is a commitment to soulful, genre-fluid sound and to platforming Black and diasporic artists, built not around a fixed aesthetic but around community — the friends, dancers and listeners who Errol and Alex describe as "our peopledem." Ten years on, Touching Bass remains rooted in that same instinct: that music, at its best, is something you gather around.

Semaine What’s important to you right now?

A + E Raising a playfully curious, critically awake child in a world constantly trying to stunt freedom of thought and action.

Semaine If you were an object what would you be?

A One of sentimental value.

E A mood lamp.

Semaine Describe your taste in one word?

E Groove.

A Organic.

Semaine Where would you like to be right now?

E Belly 80% full and barefoot by the Swift River in Portland, Jamaica. Surrounded by my closest ones and nature's soundtrack.

A In a future home, on the ground floor. Surrounded by nature and open skies.