Experimental music is often seen as the domain of urban centers — the creative hubs where underground scenes, clubs, and galleries define the cutting edge. But sound artist and Discrepant founder Gonçalo F. Cardoso has always taken a different route. His label’s catalogue draws from off-grid zones and borderlands, reworking local traditions, field recordings, and soundscapes into warped, cinematic dispatches from imaginary worlds. Now based in Tenerife, Cardoso and his group Lagoss use the island’s relative isolation not as a limitation but as a catalyst to construct strange, fantastic sonic ecosystems. Island Slang continues that vision, in collaboration with Ugandan group Abagwagwa (aka Nihiloxica of Nyege Nyege fame). Together they conjure seven tracks of clattering polyrhythms, trance-inducing low-end, and cracked electronics, veering from dubby hallucinations to rhythmic onslaughts (though never as hectic as Nihiloxica can be). It’s dense, hypnotic, heavy with imagined folklore, and proof that the global experimental vanguard isn’t confined to the city, and can thrive anywhere from an island in the Atlantic to Uganda’s vibrant underground.