[content warning: the following essay includes references to racism and sexual violence]
New Essay on Vatican Shadow disturbing link with the Far-right
With
@drmathys_
we tried a first attempt at a history of the white washing of dance music, which does not erase the history of Black European dance music, and which puts an emphasis on internal dynamics within the African diaspora.
I don't get what's funny about the new generation discovering "drum n' bass" via PinkPantheress, all the events that are getting thrown right now are generic techno. How are they supposed to find out about the genres ? Blogging and music journalism is literally dead
Ok it's way deeper than that if you forget about where the money is from in the first place they litteraly had someone who wrote a book about how he killed palestinian kid in the board so wake me up when y'all want to adress that
The likes of Hör and Boiler Room have never had anything to do with underground dance music culture. They are merely chancers… auctioneers, looking for profit. They do not plant or nurture any seeds. Stop propping up these fraudsters, do your homework. Nurture the roots.
I'm so glad I was able to do this piece for
@dwellerforever
Operaismo never been so relevant than now, as you said studying movements that concern collective interests versus solely individual ones can guide us a lot !
I don't know what they teach in class these days, but definitely not critical thinking, we holding citizen accountable for their government action now ? Brb sending my white Belgian friend my paypal in DMs for the reparation for Congo
I'm honored to have
@TianaHRR
writing on my substack this week! "Dance Music Bigot Mediocre White Men privilege" is a piece about how artists can shield themselves behind their white privilege to avoid any accountability
Statement from EB, Addendums were added to every piece on TEB’s site that previously covered and supported Dominick Fernow’s work and they commit to providing more background checks while covering an artist. Why is it so hard for
@pitchfork
or
@residentadvisor
?
@DrRJChapman
Is that the same thing some people on tiktok are talking about when they mention "autistic accent"? This way of easily taking on accent you come across on TV
..etc?
For transparency: I will not be working on an addendum with
@brandonstosuy
as
@pitchfork
doesn't want to address the fact that they let an article containing "shout out" to violent far-right militants. (image description and Alt text)
A piece on Dominick Fernow and his links to artists with right wing ideologies was published Friday. I spent the weekend thinking of my laziness and complacency re: these connections and wanted to post the below. It's from a letter I wrote to the piece's author,
@amazinggaijin
And I also want to mention that I'm working on an update of my essay where I will share what has been happening since the publication and this also will address the refusal to act by other platforms such as
@residentadvisor
watch this space. Continue to speak up!
Would be nice if some of you, talk about what's happening in Poland right now. I would think the destruction of a forest to build a giant wall to contain refugee would be of interest but we just gonna let the Berlin wall part II get build quietly I guess.
Abolish DJ Idolatry is about focusing club activism on club workers instead of the DJS. I’m proud to have co-edited this piece on the necessity of decentering the figure of the DJ from political discourse within night-life. Written by
@drmathys_
Proud to present to you the first issue of Bellona Magazine. Our first on 'Autonomy' includes long reads on plug-in capitalism, the pop song form, jazz and operaismo, the history of Korean communism!
Around 20 US booking agency been working around the clock like there is no global pandemic and there is a clear correlation between all those shows in Mexico and the fact that the country can't handle the pandemic, you have here a good example of how colonialism works
Really excited to announce that Thursday, march 18 I will be talking Tech, Commodification, And The Future Of Music with
@dfnbrown1
for
@RyersonU
moderated by
@sofiesonja
(you can email for a free link if you don't have the financial means)
⛓Very excited to announce my next release on
@all_centre
out next month! Available digitally alongside a very limited run of dubplates.💿✨
The first track, a collaboration with
@lighghtmusic
is available to stream
I was expecting that
@brandonstosuy
would address this fact since he says in his statement that we working on the addendum together and was my contact with Pitchfork, which means he knows more than I do. But he refused to address this publicly
How you finding out Belgium is a racist country? You want me to set up a Zoom with my dad who grew up in Leopoldville named after the King of Belgium who was cutting people hand if they didn't harvest enough Rubber? He always have time to talk about it.
Thanks for the opportunity , it was really enjoyable I got to develop my take on technomaterialism, club culture as both an Afro-diasporic innovation and an anti-capitalist movement, what I think about eco-facism, the shit-show that is music journalism <3
I love how people are dancing around the pandemic grasping to crumbs of normalicy ready to restore the old order when "things going to calm down". What would be the triggee who will make them understand that nothing are never going to be the same lol?
France is banning every demonstration of support to the Palestinian. Shamefull. The NYT correspondant in Paris industrial complex will not talk about it of course.
i've been working on for a bit with Hansi (pronouns: they/them) on how the german capital club lobby participates in landlordism, couldn't imagine better timing
"Creating derivative software to help brands better understand their customers seemed like a poor use of my limited time on this burning planet" Wendy Liu
German news right now, is just a mix of anti-deutsch agit-prop and typical french racism. Talking about " teenagers with an immigrant background need to be taught about antisemitism and israel's right to exist"
Let me google election score in Saxony real quick.
The capitalist class in Berlin is accelerating the gentrification process using the pandemic to accelerate eviction. For example that homeless shelter getting evicted to build an aquarium
I’m proud to have co-edited this piece on the necessity of decentering the figure of the DJ from the political discourse within night-life written by
@drmathys_
People in the dance music realm seems to refuse to take that info into account when they talk about strategy to curve emissions. Which is an interesting concept.
#grift
New domain name announcement for my portfolio // compilation of my recent piece thread.
So you can find a selection of my writing, podcast guesting here now
@KindaHagi
I pitched articles about it, I got rejected on like 5 medias. You giving non muslim white people too much credit. It's been a full on festival since last summer, nobody cares and then they pretend to care about the Uyghur.
The Mall of America hires mercenaries to walk around with rifles.
MOA rent-a-cops say it’s against the Malls policy for people to film or photograph the MOA mercenaries that are strapped with AR’s.
Does a mercenary openly carrying an AR and a side arm make you feel safer?
Palestine resistance showed us the way, we will not be liberated by the post-left Bell Hooks neo-liberal decolonize the Barbican crowd. Free Palestine🇵🇸 it's only the beginning of a new era of struggle.
Lol @ People pretending they knew only now about the link with Boiler Room and the IDF. Or you must have every single person who are really about that life on mute/ block I dunno.
Virtue signaling ain't it anymore.
"Under its shroud of novelty and complexity, Web3 sets out to hard-code the Internet with free-market economics, which has proven time and time again to exacerbate social and ecological injustices. "
Black women been on strike against the racial and sexist discrimination and the abusive temp contract for some people who been working at Ibis hotel for decade. for 20 f*cking months, second time in court. Who's writing about this?
Les femmes de chambres de l'Ibis Batignolles du groupe sont en grève depuis 20 mois contre l'exploitation de la sous-traitance et c/ les violences sexuelles et les discriminations raciales, l'affaire est aujourd'hui de nvx devant les prud'hommes. Force à elles.
I'm looking for a afrodeutsche writer who work / is interested around/ in colonialism, from Berlin/ or based in Berlin. With a materialist analysis lens, for a paid commission for my substack please RT