Empty Club Mix - 𝔈ℭ𝔅 Music for an empty club. Lonely and heartbroken

The DJ, Jon Smeathers, has a performance style I can only describe as "wailing on the CDJs," manically flicking pitch faders and EQ knobs. Somewhere between Aya/LOFT, Kelman Duran, and Girl Talk. soundcloud.com/ecb-mixtapes...

Joy Squad, by Koreless from the album Agor

[hi i'm back]

Today's track is one I haven't listened to since it came out, but heard last month at a funny, surprising, chaotic DJ set in Taipei. koreless.bandcamp.com/track/joy-sq...

i can't believe i have to go back to this extremely basic tumblr feminism shit in 2 0 2 3

"guys who come up with gross painful names for tampons" go in the same category as "guys who think tampons are gross" since all y'all have lost your privileges to discuss tampons

...why not?

Bodegas Should Sell Loosie Tampons - Hell Gate The infrastructure is already in place—we just need to put it to a second use.

"Separating a little white cylindrical object from its pack and selling it for $1 under the table is universally accepted, even cherished." For Hell Gate, I argue: why not tampons, too? This was massively fun to write. hellgatenyc.com/bodegas-should-sell-loos...

i would do anything to read mark fisher on early 2020s therapy discourse :'(

like a macarthur grant, getting tabbed is a professional honor of the highest order that can only be bestowed, never sought. congratulations to @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

you're so goddamn stylish!

Love having a legitimate reason to ask my editor, who I have never met and know basically nothing about, whether or not she has ever taken drugs (my guess is no).

tbf the crystal guardian canisters are great for carrying drugs

a find by @davidgrossman.bsky.social that made me feel profoundly seen when he sent it to me, especially considering that he is not a raver!

I pair these histories because they are the ones I'm most informed about, having both shaped my life. But they are just two points in the infinite constellation that is Black American artistic genius. Trace the history of the art that shapes your life and it will always lead back to Black artists.

Some of the visionary cultural descendants of these artists, on Insta:

@tyedrichill
@tasha_b_va
@kaninikiiru

@setfiretoloraine
@ace.moma
@yu_who
@russellelbutler
@ageless_adab

And everyone on https://blackartistdatabase.co/?#/

Black Lindy Hoppers Fund

If you aren't Black and enjoyed these skeets, pls donate right now to the Black Lindy Hoppers Fund (blacklindyhoppersfund.org) and Underground Music Academy (www.undergroundmusicacademy...), which are dedicated respectively to supporting Black swing dancers and techno producers.

Why Drexciya took Detroit electro underwater | Resident Advisor We dive into the mythology behind Detroit electro's most influential duo.Check out the feature on RA: https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3326As Drexciy...

One early influential group, Drexciya, created a potent mythology for their music: a Black Atlantis, called Drexciya, founded by the unborn children of pregnant African women thrown overboard from slave ships. Of course, their music fucking *slaps* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgG-QiChiA8&t=147s

Techno emerged from Detroit in the mid-1980s, the creation of a group of young Black men under equal influence from Sun Ra, Kraftwerk, Motown and Alvin Toeffler's "Future Shock." They built an Afrofuturist sonic utopia from the desolation of post-industrial collapse.

Hellzapoppin' in full color | Colorized with DeOldify The Lindy Hop scene in Hellzapoppin' (1941).✒ Subscribe to our channel for more videos like this.↪ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqhUGGN-O_FC5Luf3wOmO1g?s...

This video is colorized but *it is not sped up.*

Of course, (white) Hollywood quickly stole their work. But it's Juneteenth; we'll talk about that another day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzc7vY9VTnk

Lindy hop emerged from Harlem in the late 1920s, the creation of Frankie Manning and his dance troupe Whitey's Lindy Hoppers. Most of them worked as domestic laborers; at night, at the Savoy Ballroom, they developed a dance vocabulary of pure, fearless Black joy.

Black Americans invented both swing dancing and techno, 55 years apart, as worldbuilding artistic practices where they embodied the freedom they were denied under enslavement, segregation and perpetual violent racism. Millions of people around the world now practice both.

When "they" "played" at the club where I used to work I met their stand-ins, a pair of 21-year-olds who looked terrified, not at all having a good time!

Some combo of PC Music + 100 gecs + aya but you can't fake that. Also they are overall shockingly bad at picking vocal samples.

Most avocados taste just ok

Two Shell are annoying twerps but their productions are quite nice.

Nadja: when we think about freedom, we have to ask ourselves if in exercising our freedom we are impinging on others'.

Zoë: I wish people didn't bring blinky shit onto the dance floor but I know we all experience freedom differently so unfortunately I have to live with the blinky shit.

Astra Taylor, Nadja Durbach, & D. Graham Burnett in conversation (May 25, 2023) In conjunction with the Spring 2023 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly, Freedom, Astra Taylor, Nadja Durbach, and D. Graham Burnett convene for a discussion of thei...

Abolition, anti-vaxxers, attention: a conversation with Astra Taylor, Nadja Durback and D. Graham Burnett, moderated by me, who took this as an opportunity to dunk on blinky light-up rave accessories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Rx_S-mvCzo

Just In Time For Pride, the FDA Is Fear-Mongering About Poppers The agency claimed the drug, popular in queer circles, “can prove fatal.”

Let the people pop!!! www.vice.com/en/article/bvjjna/fda-po...

@davidgrossman.bsky.social has she seen it tho

rly thought this was gonna be about Zola [2020]