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How History, Wealth and Nepotism Determine Access in South Africa’s Segregated Dance Music Industry
By Mandy Alexander What started out as an investigation to find out how access to music equipment may hinder growth amongst marginalised DJs and music producers, resulted in me discovering how South Africa’s cities’ segregation plays a massive role in how different genres of music are heard. The past and current spatial planning undoubtedly influence… Read more
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Running Out of Space: Drexciya, Boards of Canada, and the Post 9/11 Digital Psychedelia You Haven’t Processed Yet
Part I: 20th Century Blur, Millennial Corruption We’re still grappling with the ways September 11th 2001 changed our lives. It was the end of the myth of America, even when that myth was only for a few. This day, if you had to pick one, ended our prior perceived notion of formality and decorum. Before,… Read more
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Love and Theft: How the Appropriation of Negro Spirituals Taught America How to Sanitize Black Music
Radical historian S. David, investigates the cruelty of what’s lost in the translation of black expression into white notation
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Fighting to Love Yourself in a World That Doesn’t Want You To
By Kuchenga Writer Kuchenga reflects on her personal challenges as a dark-skinned black woman to love herself in a world confronted with images and critics that make that challenge even harder I have been on a representation high recently. I subscribed to The Underbelly App and have been getting acquainted with my new yoga mat… Read more
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Southern Electronics Gallery
proportionality relating the progression of technology with Black Atlantic culture as praxis
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Techno is Black, Tekkno is German
A preview of Assembling a Black Counter Culture (Primary Information, 2021)
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A Conversation on the Bleaching of Techno: How Appropriation is Normalized and Preserved
This Conversation between Axmed Maxamed and Mathys Rennela took place in November 2019 As friends who have known each other for years and bonded through electronic music, We have had many conversations about our experiences with racism in Amsterdam’s dance music scene, and decided recently to write down some of our most regular grievances. The… Read more
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