Cartel Madras

About Cartel Madras
Following the release of Cartel Madras’s 2021 project The Serpent & The Tiger, sisters Eboshi and Contra spent the years that followed dismantling and rebuilding the project’s foundations entirely. Refining their sound and visual universe behind the scenes, the duo emerged for select moments: appearing on Clipping’s “Mirrorshades Pt. 2” from Dead Channel Sky, opening for M.I.A. during her debut performance in India in 2023, and landing music within the EA Sports FC universe.

In 2026, Cartel Madras returns with a new single, “EVIDENT 2 ME,” a drum and bass collaboration with Toronto Producer Jide, that finds Eboshi and Contra with vengeance on their minds and adventure laid out before them.

Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, and raised in Alberta, Cartel Madras crafts a cultural syncretism of house, trap, punk, industrial electronics, and razor-sharp rap. Known for explosive live performances that channel the energy of underground queer and punk scenes, the duo has built a reputation for music that is confrontational, playful, cinematic, and impossible to pin down. In 2018, they signed to Sub Pop Records, releasing three acclaimed EPs alongside a growing body of striking visual work directed and produced through their own multidisciplinary practice.

Cartel Madras has shared stages with artists including JPEGMAFIA, Jack Harlow, Wu-Tang Clan, clipping., Mac DeMarco, and supported Sudan Archives. Alongside their music career, Eboshi and Contra have expanded their artistic universe into film, installation, and visual storytelling through their production house FOREIGNERZ, creating immersive worlds that blur the boundaries between music, cinema, fashion, and contemporary art.