The London producer is navigating a predominantly white IDM scene with a stunning hybrid sound, and conquering anxiety after the pandemic knocked her career
The pandemic might have knocked her momentum, but with her new album Reflection, Loraine James is about to solidify her position as one of the UK’s most brilliant and boundary-pushing electronic producers, meshing IDM – the “intelligent dance music” of artists such as Aphex Twin – with R&B, jazz and drill influences.
Raised in a tower block in Enfield, north London, James has been inspired by electronic music since her mid-teens, allured by IDM greats like Squarepusher and Telefon Tel Aviv: “I was always intrigued by melodic IDM, and wanted to replicate it,” she says, sitting among the craft-beer-sippers in a bar in Hackney Wick, east London. But James has gone far further than mere replication.
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