SG Lewis remembers the first time he ever set foot in a nightclub. He was a fresher at university and his friends had taken him to East Village in Liverpool where industrial techno DJ Ben Klock was playing: “I remember feeling a kick in the chest each time the beat dropped, and I realised this was something I wanted to be a part of.”
Lewis’ own music departs starkly from the German techno that first gave him the buzz. He’s part of a new wave of nostalgic nu-disco artists who’ve made synthpop the coolest style around (Dua Lipa, with whom he has worked, and Harry Styles also come to mind).
