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Artist
Poté
12+ albums
Saint Luciaelectronicdanceindieelectronica
about
Poté builds worlds that are raw and expansive. His music treads between the rhythmic sound of his heritage and his interest in exploratory, emotive songwriting; it’s an interplay that continues to evolve through each of the songs he writes. The network he’s built along the way speaks to the variety of his influences: with connections from Lisbon’s kuduro-fused Enchufada label, to Benji B and Damon Albarn, his approach is open and many-sided. Born in St Lucia and later moving to the UK, his family moved to London when he was 12 to look for more opportunities. Spending his teenage years in the UK capital, it was there that he made his first steps into music. His earliest releases were for Scratch Perverts imprint Black Gold: they were up-tempo, club-focused productions – bedded in tight, sturdy drums – but with shades of emotion at the edges. “At that stage, I was entering a rediscovery of my culture, and my background,” he says. “I wanted to draw on that percussion of the Caribbean, and try to unite that with the reason I started writing music: as a valve for my emotions.” Sending tracks out to DJs and radio hosts, he quickly struck a chord with the tastemakers he looked up to. Garnering support from the likes of Annie Mac, MistaJam, Phil Taggart and Nina Las Vegas, he also struck a connection with Branko, one fifth of Buraka Som Sistema, who signed Poté to release his 2015 debut EP, “Voyeurism”, for his Lisbon-based label Enchufada. Around that time Poté made new connecti
