Novelist
By Kit Macdonald
If it feels like Kojo Kankam, aka Novelist, has been around for a long time for someone still a couple of years away from his 30th birthday, it's because that's very much the case. Kankam, born in Lewisham, South London in 1997, began making music in his teens and broke through way back in 2014 with the track “Take Time”, produced alongside Mumdance. It was the perfect showcase for a stripped-down, bare-bones production style that celebrated grime’s early classics while pushing it forward with a bold, experimental edge.
Since then he has collaborated with the great and the good (Skepta, Stormzy, Jamie XX) and been nominated for the Mercury Prize while maintaining a notable independent streak, self-releasing music and retaining total creative control of his output. Lowprofile, a bass music DJ from Barcelona, will play an opening DJ set from 8.30pm and Novelist is onstage at 9.30pm. There are, somewhat surprisingly, some still tickets available on Dice.