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Four Artists, One Room: Kollideoscope Listening Party

We hosted a private listening for Kollideoscope — the first official release from Jukebox Collective’s Music Academy.

Four artists, one room, and a 10-track mixtape. The event was a chance to hear the project front to back, in the same kind of shared space it was created in.

The Music Academy is designed to open things up — access to studio space, equipment, and support from people who understand how the process actually works. Kollideoscope comes directly out of that. It captures a period of development: artists figuring out their sound, trying ideas, and building something collectively.

The mixtape moves across grime, neo-soul, alternative rap and club-influenced production. Each track leans into a different direction, but there’s a consistency in how it’s been made — collaborative, hands-on, and evolving as it goes.

Each of the four artists brought something distinct into the room.

The listening party marked the moment, playing the project as a whole, and sharing it with friends and family.

Kollideoscope is a starting point. It shows what can happen when artists are given the time, space and backing to develop — setting the tone for what’s next.

The first music project from Jukebox Music Academy. Ten tracks from Eddie, One84k, Momen and CH.

“Four mirrors, four artists. The unique story of four people’s lives brought into one.”

The Music Academy runs year-round at Butetown Pavilion in Cardiff. Weekly sessions across songwriting, production, recording and performance. The room, the equipment, the hours, and mentors in the building when the students are.

Kollideoscope was shaped by the artists and the mentors, who worked alongside them. Kairese Hawkings and Cas coached across production, vocals and engineering through months of weekly sessions, guiding the work without running it. Conceptualising and producing the project from beginning right through to release.

Eddie travelled from Guinea-Bissau through Portugal before Cardiff became home. He came to the Academy to make beats. By the end of the project he was the one in the booth. His track Strange captures the shift, a song he recorded in a register he hadn’t used before, coached through the take by his mentor.



One84k has been making music since he was four, with a background in classical training. Inside the programme he learned to engineer and mix, a professional skillset he hadn’t imagined for himself. On Kollideoscope he pulled his own vocal track and replaced it with an instrumental.



Momen is a Sudanese Welsh artist who came to Jukebox making music alone on GarageBand. He arrived on the fifth of May 2020 and hasn’t missed a session since. Outcast, his solo track, is closer to a self-portrait than a story.

CH came up producing drum and bass before he ever rapped. He named the project, breaking ‘Kollideoscope’ down as four mirrors, four artists, and produced vocals for the other three across the months. On his own tracks he raps like a producer, writing to the beat.


Across ten tracks, Kollideoscope moves between grime, neo-soul, alternative rap and club- influenced production, shaped by each artist’s individual story and the months they spent inside the programme. Four sounds, not one sound split four ways. You hear it in the distance between tracks.

These artists belong to the Welsh underground, a scene putting out new music across Cardiff, Newport and Swansea. In partnership with BUILDHOLLYWOOD, the release is backed by a billboard campaign across Cardiff. Eddie, One84k, Momen and CH are up on walls across the city they came up in.

Kollideoscope is a starting point. More to come from the Academy’s music programme, which runs year-round for young people building a career in music. If you’re in Cardiff and ready to work, find out how to join us.

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Of Us — Film & Performance Went International

2025 was a major year for our short film Of Us (directed by Liara Barussi), continuing its journey beyond its British Library debut. We premiered the film in Wales with a screening and Q&A at Chapter Arts Centre, featuring conversations with the creative team and cast. Jukebox Collective

Internationally, Of Us featured as part of the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Marrakech — its first global screening, spotlighting the film within a wider programme celebrating contemporary African creativity. Jukebox Collective

In Brussels, Jukebox Collective presented a live performance and screening of Of Us at Bozar, blending movement, sound and film within a multidisciplinary event focused on Black joy and storytelling. Jukebox Collective

Back in Europe, Of Us was exhibited at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam as part of the Not My Soul exhibition, placing our work in a dialogue with global histories of resilience and creative expression.

Collaborations & Campaigns

For St David’s Day 2025 we teamed up with BUILDHOLLYWOOD on an outdoor campaign that reimagined Welsh tradition through editorial imagery created with Jukebox Academy students. The large-scale billboard takeover across Cardiff and Swansea wove heritage and creative reinterpretation into the public sphere. Jukebox Collective

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Our Summer Schools Pop Up Tour brought music and dance workshops into primary schools across Cardiff, offering pop-up performances and creative experiences for young people in local communities.

At Jukebox Academy we celebrated the launch of the Kolleidoscope EP, marking a milestone for our music students as they shared their first collective release.

Our film Of Us, directed by Liara Barussi, is featuring in Not My Soul, an exhibition at the Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, presented in partnership with the National Slavery Museum.

Not My Soul explores stories of slavery, law and freedom, tracing connections between antiquity and Suriname. The exhibition shares insights into how Roman law influenced later systems of enslavement in Suriname, and on how enslaved people across both periods lived, resisted, and sought freedom.

Through archaeological artefacts and objects from the Surinamica collections, Not My Soul re-examines histories that have too often been told from the perspective of those in power from emperors, plantation owners to colonial rulers. Instead, this exhibition centres the humanity, creativity and resilience of those whose freedom was taken from them.

Contemporary artworks sit alongside ancient objects, offering new ways to see and feel this shared history. Our film Of Us stands among these works, a poetic reflection on identity, memory and collective experience alongside artists including Kathryn Smith & Pearl Mamathuba, Sarojini Lewis, and René Tavares.

René Tavares’s Making Memories in front of Memories (2023), from the Schulting Art Collection, depicts a Black family posing before a painting of a cotton plantation: the backdrop evokes the colonial past, but the family does not look back. The work invites reflection on how the past persists, and how new generations negotiate its legacy with strength and dignity.

Not My Soul invites visitors to look again at the past, to listen deeply, to question, and to see from another perspective. This exhibition places the stories of enslaved people at its heart: people whose freedom was taken from them, yet who, through their work, creativity, care, language, love and resistance, held on to their humanity. It calls us to re-examine history with empathy and awareness, and to find new meaning in voices too long unheard.

https://www.allardpierson.nl/en/calendar/not-my-soul

Of Us, originally commissioned by Dr Aleema Gray for the British Library.

Credits:

A Jukebox Collective Production

Director: Liara Barussi 

Movement Director:  Liara Barussi 

Producer: Lauren Patterson

DOP:  Nathan O’Kelly

Sound Design: An excerpt of ‘Omi’

Created by Felix Taylor and Melo-Zed in Collaboration with Touching Bass

Music supervision by Alex Rita and Tayo Rapoport

Stylist: Lauren Anne Groves

Creative Consultant: Leyman Lahcine

Starring: Jukebox Academy: Gui Pinto, Venice Williams, Monet Williams, Teaghan Scanlon, Karim Mohamed, Fatima Jarju, Ayoola Wonder, Elizabeth Oredola, Perez Rodriques, Rio Rodriques, Quincy Chambers, Akeylah Hinton, Blessing Oredola, Sheighley-Sky

Movement Assistants: Darnell Williams, Naomi Ferne, Patrik Gabco, Millie Campion 

Hair Stylist: Trent Jackson

Barber: Isaac Omoyibo

Editor: Pawel Achtelik
Colourist: Sharon Chung

Casting: Jukebox Collective

Stylist Assistants: Eliza Goldsmith, Maisie Edwards

1st AC: Tom Parry

2nd AC: Lewis Morgan
Camera Trainee: Connor O’Kelly

Catering: Lane Locations, Lara Smrtnik
Runners: Tarina Tajul, Samandal Sidig, Elina Lee, Genaya Parris, Angelina Rodriques

Fashion Brands: Miguel Brito, Ahluwalia, Jawara Alleyne, Nym Promprasert, Alexandra Armata, Rains, Danshan, Kiko Kostadinov, Renli Su, Maxine O’Sullivan, Azulmain, Tazmin Porter, Viola Gibellini, Anyi Tang

BTS Photographer: Joe Andrews

Post-House: Avenues 

Post-Producer: Amanda Jenkins

Graphic Design: Henny Valentino