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Speaker Music Techxodus

Planet Mu | Item No: 1041195
Vinyl 2LP | 2023 / UK – Original | New
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Item Description
DeForrest Brown Jr., the writer and producer behind Speaker Music, describes Techxodus as "abstracting Blackness through information overload". On the album he explores the intersection of tech, Blackness and resistance via music taken from his archived live shows, which are then edited, ordered and reassembled in the studio. The main line of inquiry that feeds into Techxodus is Drexciya, whose myths have informed much recent afrofuturist creativity. DeForrest researches and reimagines the artifacts and stories of Drexciya with new maps, ideas and music, particularly reflecting on the 'Seven Storms', seven albums that came out in quick succession around the death of Drexciya member James Stinson, which seemed to herald Drexciyans in the attack mode. The artwork by Abu Qadim Haqq, who also created artwork for Drexciya, links the work too, with Deforrest re-orienting charts and timelines familiar from Drexciyan mythology, working up clues to all possible environments where Drexciyans could survive, from the depths of the Atlantic, to oceanic islands or even outer space. Like Sun-Ra, another touchstone of Afrofuturist music, it might be that the Drexciyans wanted to leave the planet they hated. With these elements, DeForrest creates a soundtrack for an alternate history, a sort of sci-fi sonic fiction which threads together the sonic warfare and mythos of the Drexciyan records with ideas and references to Ishmael Reed's 'Mumbo Jumbo', which tracks the story of 'Jes Grew', an audio virus, back to the coastal black cities of Alabama and the American South. Musically the album is as intense as its inspirations. DeForrest skilfully hand-plays rhythms which amalgamate trap and jazz drumming, but feel at times like orca-song as they pulse through the thick waves of digital sound. Equally the music evokes the ocean, with deep cold drones, or as if it's floating through time like in 'Holosonic Rebellion' which mixes in recordings of African Warriors. Sometimes there is an energetic turbulence as on 'Jes Grew', where punched-in passages of jazz brass bounce against DeForrest's drums to create a weird disassembled jazz. Towards the end the album begins to feel like a spaceship taking off, the rushes of ascending noise and distortion, distant Southern Gospel Vocals feel like music that's leaving earth. Listen to it without the references or feed your imagination; this is a powerful and immersive original work from one of electronic music's most unique creators
Item Details
Item No: 1041195
Artist: Speaker Music
Title: Techxodus
Label: Planet Mu
Catalog No: ZIQ457
Format: Vinyl 2LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: UK – Original
Release Date: 2023
Genre: Electronic & Dance
Style: Electro
Available since: 2023-10-05
Condition: New
Price: 26,99 €
Weight: 500g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 Dtawo (Deprogramming The Atonist World Order)
A2 Techno-Vernacular Phreak
B1 Futurhythmic Bop
B2 Holosonic Rebellion
B3 Dr Rock's Powernomics Vision
C1 Jes' Grew
C2 Our Starship To Ociya Syndor
D1 Feenin'
D2 Astro-Black Consciousness
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