Playlist:
- Tiff Massey - Detroit Is Black
- Ngoni Egan - Kalahari to Fingal
- TYGAPAW - Get Free Intro.
- TAAHLIAH - Transdimensional
- Angel D’lite - Relaxerciser
- BAE BAE - love don’t live here
- Lotic - Fractures
- Masters at Work - The Ha Dance
- Lotic - Heterocetera
- Souskay - Paré you lové
- Mbongwana Star - Malukayi
We wanted to include some sources for this episode. Some were discussed in the episode, and others are related to the conversation on futures in electronic music. Though varying widely in subjects, for us they represent much needed conversations and reflections on the past, present, and futures in electronic (underground) music.
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Techno Materialism - An online and open-access curator of articles that delve into Marxist and Neo-Marxist analyses of the dance music industry.
https://technoma
‘Raving’ by Mckenzie Wark - a revelatory work that dives into the complexities of the ‘rave’ from the perspective of the trans underground techno scene in NY.
https://www.duk
Interview with Kelela for MixMag on her album ‘Raven’ - on Black and queer contributions in dance music and her refusal to ‘translate'.
dj lynnée denise - to think about the future means to reshape narratives of the past. We included DJ Lynnee Denise’s website since there are a multitude of publications, blogs, and musical essays that touch on the formative years of house and techno in the context of the political climate of the 80’s.
dweller, started in 2019, is an electronic music festival platforming black electronic artists and this is the derivative blog, started in 2020, centering black perspectives.
'Glitter Up the Dark' takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary. Why is music so inherently queer? For Sasha Geffen, the answers lie, in part, in music's intrinsic quality of subliminal expression, which, through paradox and contradiction, allows rigid gender roles to fall away in a sensual and ambiguous exchange between performer and listener.
In 'Afro Futurism' accessible primer to the music, literature, and art of Afrofuturism, author Ytasha Womack introduces readers to the burgeoning community of artists creating Afrofuturist works, the innovators from the past, and the wide range of subjects they explore.