Aristophanes

In late 2015, Grimes released her fourth album, Art Angels. On the third track, her voice gave way to a hyper-speed rap torrent -- in Mandarin. Enter Taiwanese femcee Aristophanes. For an introduction to a Western audience, this was a fortuitous start. Overnight, she was a desired commodity with curious fans scrambling to learn more. Unfortunately, most of the information on the Internet was in Chinese, making her online song postings the only taste new fans could get. Born Pan Wei-Ju in Taiwan, the artist also known as Li Mou (which translates to "civet") initially wanted to ...