PANDEMIC #002: Of Desire & Ghosts (feat. Speaker Music, NYC)
Speaker Music, the freeform improvised electronic project of New York-based theorist, journalist, and curator Deforrest Brown Jr., was inspired by the great work of Henri Lefebvre and jazz musicians such as Les McCann and James Stinton. Brown’s music is centered around a kind of controlled chaos, using many layers of free percussion and both original and field recordings. Brown is also a modern day activist in addition to artist, responsible for the “Make Techno Black Again” campaign. For this episode, Brown supplied a bananas mix of de-capitalized and weaponized homegrown techno entitled “Rhythmatic Music for Speakers.”
Photography is by Richard Ross.
We also pour over new stuff from ANZ, Angel Ho and Laurel Halo, while sprinkling new and old favorites like L’Rain, City & i/o, and Billy Woods.
Listener discretion is advised.
Playlist
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Freddie Gibbs & Madlib, “Freestyle Shit”
from Bandana
Madlib Invazion/ESGN/Keep Cool/RCA Records - 2019
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Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, “Astral Traveling”
from Astral Traveling
Ace Records - 2014
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Billy Woods, “A Day in a Week in a Year (feat. MOTHERMARY)”
from Hiding Places
Backwoodz Studioz - 2019
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Sour Spirit, “ifihadtodescribethewayisurviveitslikevicesqueezinthereasonimblacknstillbreathin”
from Cataclysm, OK?
self-released - 2018
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DeForrest Brown Jr., “Tender Is the Touch of White Liberal Complicity”
from The Wages of Being Black Is Death
PTP - 2018
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DeForrest Brown Jr., “Sophisticated Genocide: American Industrialized Culture Is Designed to Flush out Non - Performing / Non - Conforming Black Male Bodies”
from The Wages of Being Black Is Death
PTP - 2018
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