Get To Know: AAA

Now taking risks in his seamless mixes, AAA handpicks the best of every scene and genre. “Learning how to mix so seamlessly, where you take the crowd on a journey and they barely realise the music is changing, is something I picked up from going to house raves, where you hear a set that progresses in a barely noticeable way,” he explains.

His discovery of alternative music is something he credits to late producer and DJ SOPHIE. “I was going to all these alternative music events alone. I saw SOPHIE play at a museum, I think the Tate or Tate Modern in 2010, and I was so impressed and shocked at the skill being displayed.” That night would be fateful, encouraging a 15-year-old AAA to open his ears to the likes of Arca, Hudson Mohawke, Lunis and James Blake. “I started listening to Highlife, which is funny because even though I was raised in a Ghanaian household, it’s not something I listened to growing up, but something I rediscovered once I started to appreciate good music irrespective of genre.”

It’s this vast musical education and knowledge that has led him to prefer the term selector, rather than DJ, and his inability to be boxed in — both sonically and metaphorically — have launched his ambitions further than any festival or dancefloor. Equipped with experiences from organising block parties to playing Boiler Room sets, there’s seemingly no facet of Black British nightlife that AAA hasn’t been involved in; so what’s next? Pointing to the hybrid role of people like Benji B — who has worked extensively with fashion houses and designers, notably with the late Virgil Abloh and Off White — AAA envisions himself bringing his selection skills and creative expression to musical direction with art, fashion and moving images.