Ankur Malhotra, aka SpinCycle, is an avid musicologist who explores, engages, and connects with musical traditions from around the world. Founder of Madison Music Review and Aural Grooves, co-founder of Amarrass Records, music producer, recording engineer, and radio jockey, Ankur has spent over two decades crate-digging esoteric vinyl sounds from around the world. SpinCycle presents recontextualized field recordings, obscure sounds, and patterns, reimagined and reinterpreted for the dance floor. Featuring two turntables, a mixer, and a crate load of wax, he creates layers of dubby, clubby, psychedelic sounds.

A longtime DJ and radio host on WORT 89.9FM, his versatility across styles and genres is evidenced in the many shows he hosts, including the Pan Africa Radio Show, Friday Buzz, and other world music, dub, and freeform radio shows. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, where he has been DJing for the past 15 years, he has held residencies at local clubs, festivals, and launch parties. He has performed in the US, Europe, and India, opened for artists such as Huun-Huur-Tu, Samba Touré, BCUC, Msafiri Zawose, Bremer/McCoy, Les Frères Smith, and Charanjit Singh, and produced thematic sets for the Madison Children’s Museum and Odense Music Library. Special projects also include explorations that fuse turntable rhythms and bass with live contemporary folk from India with Barmer Boys.

• Pan Africa Sets - Cutting-edge sounds on vinyl infused with rare oddities from the African diaspora. Expect afro funk, dub, psychedelic sanza, and throbbing afro-techno-house sounds.
• Crate Digging in the Music Library - A special project commissioned by the Odense Music Library in Denmark. An exploration into the vast folk and world music collection, with sets created exclusively from the material found at the library. Recontextualizing traditional sounds and historic recordings for the modern dance floor, this sonic art exploration takes listeners on a journey into the past and into the future.
• Live Set with Barmer Boys - SpinCycle fuses his love for deep bass and acid sounds with a passion for folk music in a path-breaking Rajasthani folk-fusion set. Featuring four artists on stage: searing Sufi vocals, polyrhythmic percussion, folk rhythms, synthesizers, turntable, and banging beats.
• Specially Curated Sets - For example, “Mit Bier ein Bugs” at the Madison Children’s Museum: an intersection of Kraftwerk and German techno with sounds of the environment, ambient, and progressive electronic music.
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• 2022-23 Projects / Tours: Audio Podcast Series - In collaboration with Odense Music Library, Resonator Festival, and WORT 89.9FM, delivering deep dives into folk and world music collections through music and interviews exploring the nature of recorded music, from disappearing instruments and cultures to the evolution of modern music.