John Eni-ibukun is an African Gospel and Afrobeats curator at Audiomack, one of the continent’s foremost music streaming platforms, where he thinks about how music travels, gets discovered, and lands with audiences in a fragmented digital world. Before that, he ran a digital press platform for artists.
Under the alias “June Sometimes,” he channels that knowledge into something more personal. His debut project, “Memories with Nostalgic Flaws,” is an interactive web-based game built around the emotional texture of growing up in Lagos in the early-2000s; communal play, cultural rituals, highlife, and the particular noise of a generation that came of age before the Internet took over everything.
The project is equal parts music and product: listeners decode clues, unlock narratives, and move through a layered storytelling system that rewards participation. In a music industry still running largely on traditional rollout strategies, that is a deliberate provocation.
Explain your work to a five-year-old.
I put music in spaces they should be heard, performances at places they should be seen and I love to bring people together towards having memorable experiences.
