What plays in a home while you’re growing up tends to stay with you. For Rochelle Jordan, born in London and raised in Toronto by British-Jamaican parents, that soundtrack was already transatlantic. Northern Soul, Jamaican reggae and dancehall spun on her parents’ stereo, while from her brother’s bedroom seeped the pulse of funky UK house, drum and bass, garage and the gospel samples threaded through them. It was an early education in rhythm, identity and emotional precision. Those layered influences are unmistakable in Jordan’s music today. Her sound moves fluidly between ’90s R&B sensuality, UK garage swing, soul warmth and the dynamic lift of drum and bass, all wrapped in cutting-edge electronic production. There is both nostalgia and futurism at play — hooks steeped in memory, beats pushing forward with restless intent. On last year’s “Through The Walls,” she distilled that hybrid identity into her most assured work yet: intimate yet club-ready, emotionally exact yet rhythmically expansive. It’s a record shaped by the spaces between cultures, between rooms, between eras. This summer, Rochelle Jordan makes her mark at Way Out West.

Rochelle Jordan will perform in Slottsskogen on Friday August 14th.