Ela Minus

Describing her work as "bright music for dark times," Ela Minus makes delicate but defiant electro-pop. She composes and performs all of her material on a self-built hardware rig, rebelling against the dominance of computer-based production in electronic music, and allowing her stripped-down but vibrant work to retain an improvisatory element. On 2020's full-length debut acts of rebellion, her blend of punk-inspired resistance, techno-informed textures, and intimate songwriting combined the personal and political in galvanizing ways. With 2022's DJ Python collaboration Corazon, Ela Minus let more warmth and sensuality into her music.