MidnightRoba is the solo project of vocalist, songwriter and producer Roba El-Essawy. The voice of Attica Blues (Mo Wax 1997, Sony 2000), MidnightRoba released her second solo album, Raise A Symphony, on her independent label Sonder Records at the end of 2025, receiving airplay and features with Benji B (BBC Radio 1), Gilles Peterson (Worldwide FM), Dom Servini’s Jazztronics (Jazz FM), Kate Hutchinson (Soho Radio), Kate Magic (Soho Radio), NTS (Marshmello), Kevin Beadle (Totally Wired), Jazz Re:Freshed, True Thoughts, and more, whilst MidnightRoba’s single ‘Axis’, featuring actor/poet/film maker/activist Saul Williams was featured in The Guardian as one of “The Best Songs of 2025… You May Not Have Heard”. Whilst the first album ‘Golden Seams’ was very much rooted in jazz and was a personal expression, ‘Raise A Symphony’ is an electronic offering and marks this challenging time, globally, for us all.
‘Joy’ is the first release from MidnightRoba’s forthcoming EP ‘Raise A Symphony (remixes)’, remixed by long-time friend and collaborator King Britt.
Philadelphia-born King Britt is a producer, composer, performer, and Full Teaching Professor of Computer Music at the University of California San Diego.

As a composer and producer, he has collaborated with De La Soul, Madlib, Kathy Sledge, and directors Michael Mann and Khalil Joseph, with remix commissions for Miles Davis, James Brown, Solange, and Calvin Harris and Dua Lipa. He has released several studio projects, including the Moksha Black series, the legendary Sylk 130 project and most recently a project with MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winner Tyshawn Sorey. A globally active performer, he has appeared at AfroPunk, Berghain, MoogFest, and Le Guess Who, and was the original DJ for the Grammy-winning Digable Planets. King Britt is the creator of Blacktronika: Afrofuturism in Electronic Music, a course and festival that centres innovators of colour often omitted from electronic music histories, with guests including Herbie Hancock, Questlove, and Patrice Rushen, while extending the groundwork of UK's Charlie Dark's (Attica Blues) original Blacktronika events from '99 - 2005.