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Actress
Actress is an experimental artist from London formed in 2008. 36 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Experimental · London · Best experimental albums
- 36
- Releases
- 2008–2026
- Active years
- 2008
- Formed
Discography
14
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Hazyville
2008 · 11 tracks
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Singles & EPs
22
Live By You
Single · 2026
Overchord
EP · 2026
Skin
Single · 2025
Tranzkript 1
EP · 2025
Inside
Single · 2025
Dolphin Spray / Static
Single · 2024
Halo (Actress' Untitled Mix)
Single · 2024
THRASH
EP · 2024
Game Over ( e 1 )
Single · 2023
Its me ( g 8 ) / Oway ( f 7 )
Single · 2023
Push Power ( a 1 )
Single · 2023
Dummy Corporation
EP · 2022
Dream
Single · 2022
Walking Flames
Single · 2020
Loveless / Angels Pharmacy
Single · 2020
Audio Track 5
Single · 2017
Bird Matrix (Remixes)
EP · 2015
Grey Over Blue
Single · 2014
Silver Cloud
EP · 2013
Harrier Attk / Gershwin
Single · 2011
Rainy Dub
Single · 2011
Machine and Voice
Single · 2010
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Actress is the artist alias of London’s Darren Cunningham. If you’re looking for clues to his music, you’re better off starting with “Hazyville”, the title of his debut album. The record presents a landscape as blurry as its title, with house and hiphop beats dissolving into a spray of bits and tape hiss. When “Hazyville” came out in 2008, it sounded unlike anything else out there — you could hear echoes of the familiar (Moodymann, Jan Jelinek, ‘80s R&B, wonky), but it was spun into an uncanny kind of dreamstate. Cunningham also runs Werk Discs; the label had something of a hit in 2008 with Zomby’s “Where Were U in ‘92?”, and its roster runs from the street-bass sounds of Philadelphia’s Starkey to the brilliant instrumental hiphop of Lukid and Lone.
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Much of Actress’ music is deliberately lo-fi, suffused with the slippery grit of encoding errors and low-bitrate YouTube videos, to the point that the distortion and compression become strangely beautiful in their own right. It’s the modern-day equivalent of boom-bap hiphop’s preference for scratchy wax, which makes sense, since today’s crate-diggers are increasingly discovering the musical past not through thrift-store vinyl, but dubious VHS dubs uploaded to the web, grainy and flickering with errant pixels.
Actress in brief
- How many Actress releases are on Riffiter?
- 36 releases are catalogued, spanning 2008 to 2026.
- When was Actress formed?
- Actress formed in 2008, in London.
- What genre is Actress?
- Actress is catalogued under Experimental.
- What is the most recent Actress release on Riffiter?
- Live By You, released in 2026.