kollideoscope

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.