Perera Elsewhere, the Berlin-based, UK-raised electronic artist, DJ, lyricist, producer, composer, sound artist and trumpeter, who has been become a cult figure with her mercurial blend of beats, experimental pop, spoken word and tech-electro, makes a return to release potent double single ‘F*ck Le System’ / ‘Time Will Tell’, with both bangers featuring Côte d’Ivoire’s sickest rapper Andy S. The ice cold double single is out now on Friends Of Friends. Listen HERE. Watch the visualiser HERE.
Perera Elsewhere, aka Sasha Perera, also announces her fourth album ‘Just Wanna Live Some’, with 12 tracks that take her sound and experimental creativity to a new level, that will be released on 24th October 2025.
‘F*ck Le System’ is an urgent feast of electro-rap meets tech-dancehall, propelled by syncopated typewriter clicks and arpeggiated trumpet stabs played by Perera. Its message is of potent feminine strength, it is keyed-up activism with timely lyrics delivered by Andy S’s defiant bars ‘Long story short bro fuck le système’. ‘Time Will Tell’ is underscored by dark bass, glitchy beats and ethereal vocals over which Andy S lays down a sick flow, trash talking any pretenders in true hip hop tradition, with a chorus that translates as ‘These guys talk about me, but I’m not the same person I used to be’.
Studio mastermind, Perera Elsewhere has produced both tracks, platforming Andy S’ fiery French rap vocals, with Perera’s own minimal vocals combining to great effect. Perera and Andy S recording together is the fruition of a friendship that began after Perera played an Andy S tune during her now legendary DJ set at Boiler Room Festival in Berlin last year, which saw Andy S go on to have a breakthrough moment in Berlin, returning to play gigs with Cassette Head Sessions and Fusion Festival. A visualiser for ‘F*ck Le System’ also drops of both artists performing the track together, a sick collaboration.
Perera Elsewhere has received numerous awards and media acclaim from Dazed, Pitchfork, Crack, Dazed, KCRW, Vogue and FADER for her use of technology to experiment with her voice, lyrics, beats, deep bass frequencies and sound design to explore the human experience. It was Perere Elsewhere’s music that first coined the term ‘Doom Folk’, seeing her release music from day one with LA label Friends of Friends, releasing three widely-acclaimed albums, debut ‘Everlast’ (2013), ‘All Of This’ (2017) and ‘Home’ (2022).
Over a decade after her debut, Perera Elsewhere, expresses herself emphatically, with fiery missives, thoughtful deviations and philosophical abstractions. With ‘Just Wanna Live Some’ the album title is a statement of intent, packed with Perera’s influences and obsessions, with a DJ’s brain, from her time mastering the trumpet as a teenager, circling the club scene in London, fronting bass-pop band Jahcoozi and working as one of the first promoters to bring grime and dubstep to Berlin. “If life is a map where’s the X and that” she asks on ‘Dream Like That’ over a dubwise backdrop with pointed, poetic contemplations reflecting on addiction and the torment of capitalism. Her long-time obsession with grime emerges on ‘Angelic One’, with kaleidoscopic vocals across square wave bass prangs, jittery kicks that judder around fanfare-like horns. The achingly beautiful ‘Fountain’ features the vocals of Congolese-Angolan musician Batila and Senegalese singer Yaadikone, with Perera’s trumpet alongside Oren Gerlitz’s guitar. ‘Post Everything’ is haunting, searing white noise spiriting through Perera’s evocative brass meditations, while the title track ‘Just Wanna Live Some’ sounds like a variant Chicago footwork jam.
Perera Elsewhere said “I guess I sound fatter and faster sound-wise than ever before, with less introspection and more driving tunage and instrumental music on this album. There have always been songs and instrumentals on my albums. They have evolved in texture and balance but have strong elements of continuity nonetheless. I still manipulate my voice and use it an instrument or as percussive passages. Sound design / aesthetics are very important to me, as is musicality. A strong element of Bass and sub bass, from Bristol to Berlin, via London haha.
This new music is influenced by the grimey off-kilter club music I’ve been dancing to or playing for years. Recording with my trumpet has been special for me. On the album there’s tracks which sound like they are a soundtrack for some epic blockbuster sci fi movie, and songs which make you wanna cry and then get up for a dance and fight a war on all injustice out there. Like for anyone on any day, there are moods and mood-swings!
It’s been a huge pleasure to work with Andy S, she is super focused in the studio. When she came to Berlin last summer for her Goethe Institute residency, we recorded ‘Time Will Tell’. It was an instrumental that I had already finished and Andy was totally into it. She wrote and recorded ‘F*ck Le System’ to a raw beat I had sent her. Later I built the rest of the track around her. It’s amazing to see how Berlin literally loves her! The UK will get to know her next.”
Perera’s autodidactic technique is highlighted by a long list of collaborations, most recently Aho Ssan, Maral, 3Phaz, KMRU and German icon Nina Hagen. Elsewhere, but always rooted. No matter where Perera has found herself musically – she is a true multi-hyphenate.
Single artwork, album artwork, images, biog & song lyrics here
‘Just Wanna Live Some’ Tracklisting:
