NON Records' Chino Amobi and ANGEL-HO Deliver Blood-Curdling New Beyoncé Edit

Two of NON Records' founders, Cape Town-based artist ANGEL-HO and Richmond's Chino Amobi, have shared a new edit of Beyoncé's single "Ring The Alarm," off her 2006 album B'Day. Amobi and Antonio Valerio's offering follows Beyoncé's world-stopping, surprise release on Saturday of her highly politicized video "Formation," as well as her performance of it at the Super Bowl 50 halftime show the next day.

Considering that much of NON's work deals both with direct samples and sonic evocations of living in a police state, it's not surprising to see that Amobi and Valerio were drawn to the track with its prominent alarm sample. Their reimagining of the track, entitled "RING THE AMBIENCE," is as unforgiving as anything else in the NON catalogue, layering on distortion, dissonance, and claustrophobic intensity to give the formidable original an even more aggressive pathos.

The artists' work here recalls the collective's statement of intent: "NON is a collective of African artists, and of the diaspora, using sound as their primary media to articulate the visible and invisible structures that create binaries in society, and in turn distribute power."

Revisit THUMP's recent profile on Amobi, where he delves into he and NON's artistic ethos and ambitions at length.

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