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...

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?

you're so goddamn stylish!

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/?#/

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.

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.

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.

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