estoc(US)
Popularized by the Dark Souls video game, an estoc is a weapon used to pierce armor; the Philadelphia-based DJ and producer uses her thin blade to slice through our era's alienating fog of disinformation, suggesting new ways of living and offering hope to society's misunderstood dissidents. Commingling a diverse spectrum of confrontational sounds from ragged hard dance and reggaeton to extreme metal and noise, estoc's music is unabashedly political, and her manic, floor-filling edits (most recently queered versions of Ice Spice, La Chat and Azealia Banks) are nothing short of legendary.
