Munasib is your favourite artist’s favourite DJ, keeping company with burgeoning local talent and sharing stages with international superstars. The Australian born, Bengali DJ/radio host and curator marks a sea change in Australian dance culture, reflecting the new wave of Australian art and South Asian excellence with sets that as easily include Bengali beats as Vince Staples’ ‘Norf Norf’. Her sounds have made their way across the seas and seen her performing internationally in Bali as well as underground gigs in Dhaka, Bangladesh & Delhi, India.
Based in Eora/Sydney, Munasib surrounds herself with good art and good curators as previous member of tastemakers Astral People and current member of emerging South Asian creative collective Kerfew. ‘FOOTWERK’, national radio station CADA’s club show, was hosted monthly by Munasib and has featured guests from across the dance spectrum, such as Jyoty, Suchi and Soulection’s J.Robb and she was also the host of House Party on Triple J over the summer and the May Mixup resident. One of Australia’s finest curators, Munasib is the brains behind Spice Trail, which debuted earlier this year the Sydney Opera House with a star studded lineup featuring Sid Sriram, Raf Saperra & Priya Ragu.
Combining baile funk with local hip-hop, alte cruise with amapiano, and traditional Bengali music with experimental trap, Munasib has taken the stage at Splendour in the Grass and Sydney Opera House, as well as at Australian Fashion Week and Nike activations for the recent FIFA Women’s World Cup. Opening the stage for disparate performers like Mos Def aka Yasiin Bey, Madlib, Liv.e, Smino, Knucks, Jyoty, Skrillex, Yung Singh, Ahadadream, Nabihah Iqbal, Raf Sappera, Sid Sriram, Priya Ragu, Genesis Owusu, and moktar, her taste-making has the ability to adapt to just about everything. Each smoothly unpredictable transition is a journey through the cultural abundance that makes up Munasib.
A sound selector and curator at heat, this year she conceptualised and curated an unforgettable night at the Sydney Opera House with her series Spice Trail, which was the first of its kind and a debut performance for all the international artists on the bill.
Engaging a new side of her creative brain, last year saw Munasib foray into the world of television joining ABC & Screen Australia’s Fresh Blood program to develop the project Westerners, a surrealist comedy-drama on ABC tv. Additionally she has started to find new ways to engage her Bengali community by interviewing Bengali-Australians for SBS Bangla audio channels in a mix of Bangla & English or Banglish as she calls it.