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Studio Monkey Shoulder awards Mainland House Music, a Lagos-based physics euphony collective, a £10,000 (₦20,000,000) assistance to bring their ambitious caller task “See The Sound” to life. The initiative, tally successful concern with renowned DJ Gilles Peterson and planetary euphony level Worldwide FM, supports community-driven projects that propulsion sonic boundaries and observe section euphony innovation.
The 2025 variation of Studio Monkey Shoulder drew thousands of applications worldwide, with 122,000 entries from Nigeria alone. Standout finalists from Nigeria include: Group Therapy NG, Mainland House Music, RAWA Funk, Kevwe & Cam, Rehash, House x House x House, and Honey Pot FM, with Mainland House Music emerging arsenic the winner.
Founded by a passionate group, the Mainland House Music is simply a Lagos-born euphony and rave bid focused connected Afrohouse and deeper physics sounds, with a ngo to make inclusive, alternate spaces beyond the city’s ascendant Afrobeats landscape. Their events diagnostic an energetic assemblage of dancers, artists, and nonmigratory DJs similar Etté, Fāëm, Earth Surfing, and Codename: KND. Having precocious celebrated its 2nd day successful March 2025, the corporate present enters a caller section with the enactment of the Studio Monkey Shoulder grant.
The winning project, “See The Sound”, was spotlighted successful designation of its innovative multi-sensory storytelling, which deepens assemblage engagement portion preserving Lagos’ underground physics scene. With DJs, immersive audio-visual installations, and originative talks, the task safeguards a captious taste question portion amplifying its visibility connected the planetary stage, positioning Lagos arsenic a cardinal root constituent for caller and applicable sounds. In enactment with the grant, Mainland House Lagos volition bring this task to beingness astatine the See The Sound Event taking spot connected September 27th, 2025, successful collaboration with Worldwide FM and Monkey Shoulder.
“They’re intelligibly gathering thing breathtaking connected the mainland successful Lagos,” Giles Peterson noted. “I emotion however they’re taking their chiseled dependable and assemblage and privation to physique an acquisition that showcases the DJs, their stories and the vigor of their scene. It’s a large accidental to cement Lagos’ spot connected the planetary physics country and make the unsocial Lagos location sound.”
As portion of the award, the task volition person planetary vulnerability done Worldwide FM’s vigor and movie broadcasts, connecting Lagos' country to caller planetary audiences. Each victor besides joins an planetary originative web curated by Worldwide FM, enabling semipermanent collaborations and visibility. Other winning projects for the 2025 variation include: Neighbourhood (UK), 90MIL (Germany), Sound of Women (India), Flavour Hualien (Taiwan).
The initiative’s absorption remains connected empowering grounds stores, DIY venues, online vigor platforms, and originative spaces—the heartbeat of grassroots euphony culture. As Mainland House Music takes the spotlight, it signals not lone a solemnisation of Lagos’ alternate nightlife but a increasing planetary designation of Nigeria’s divers and evolving sonic identity.
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