The Trouble with "Tribal"

The globalization of dance music is bringing all sorts of new sounds and rhythms into the culture, but properly contextualizing that evolution will be impossible without an updated vocabulary.

Before last weekend, I honestly didn’t know too much about LEVL. The trio—which consists of DB1, Felix K and Forest Drive West—released a pair of EPs back in 2019, and in the years since then, the group has only made sporadic appearances behind the decks. That seeming elusiveness, however, didn’t stop Barcelona’s Mostra festival from adding LEVL to this…