News — Nabihah Iqbal

Nabihah Iqbal has always been a dab hand at defying expectations. Before her current role as one of London’s most consistently surprising producers and radio hosts, she’s thrived as an ethnomusicologist, a human rights lawyer and even a karate instructor. As Throwing Shade, her earlier releases on labels such as No Pain in Pop, Happy Skull and Omnimira veered from weirdo techno to deconstructed, glossy RnB. Suitably, she was also revealed as the vocalist on SOPHIE’s divisive PC-music head-turner, ‘Lemonade’. A fortnightly resident on NTS, a typical Iqbal show could be partly or solely dedicated to ambient, disco, funk, broken...