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Umbrella of sound and resistance
Septober Energy is hard to categorise. Formed in 2023 in the wake of loss, the Johannesburg–Cape Town–spanning collective has quickly established itself as a fluid, multigenerational space where DJs, archivists, scholars and experimental musicians converge. Less a fixed crew than a living ecosystem, Septober Energy operates as what co-founder Naledi Chai describes as “an umbrella…