just vibe.

madlib
knx
ohbliv
kvze
mogillah
kev brown
noah b

summa mix uno

1. Sean Price Likes NO Female Rappers 
2. "Electronic Get Down" - Suzi Analogue 
3. "Baby Girl" - Boog Brown (prod. by Georgia Anne Muldrow) 
4. "Page 2 (instrumental)"- Georgia Anne Muldrow 
5. "Don't Rush Me" - Jean Grae 
6. "Master Plan" - Boog Brown 
7. "Pad Control" - Georgia Anne Muldrow 
8.  "We Cannot Hide" - Suzi Analogue 
9. "Dope Girl Intro" - Boog Brown 
10. "Moving Forward " - TOKIMONSTA 
11. "U&Me&EveryoneWeKnow"- Jean Grae

go ladies mix

love sleeves

now who (feminist god)

law-abiding (junejordanliveson)

Looping Sonic Collage (1 hour and 6 mins total): 

Side A: Memory, Grief & Deep Forgettings (31:14 mins) 

Side B: Your Body Remembers, Searching for Space (35:52 mins) 

Samples and music selected by Jen Everett & Blair Ebony Smith (lovenloops) 
Mixed and mastered by lovenloops


This tape is produced on the occasion of Jen Everett’s exhibition, Could You Dim The Lights? at the Krannert Art Museum, Feb. 1st-Oct 5th 2024 co-curated by Amy L. Powell, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Curator of Arts Research. It is a joy what comes to light in conversation about memory, girlhood, and how the body remembers. Jen Everett and artist-co-curator, Blair Ebony Smith (lovenloops), extend and share the conversation about themes in the exhibition with each other beyond the museum gallery space in ways true to us. In the show, Everett revisits childhood photographs to ruminate on popular and queer media portrayals of lesbians from the 1980s to the present, seeking moments and venues – the club, the streets, the dancefloor – where freedom and love are possible, if precarious. As a sonic collage and mix of music**, samples**, and conversation with Jen Everett and sound artist and curator Blair Ebony Smith, we touch on deep forgettings, our Black girlhood experiences as queer, and what space and making space looks like for us. We’d like to thank the museum staff, team, local artists, scholars, and students who have visited and shared the show. 


The artists do not own the music and samples. We see this as a DJ mix to share and extend the conversation. The samples include Tisha Campbell performing live on Good Day LA (2016), Robin D.G. Kelley, Audre Lorde (To be young Black and Lesbian in the 50s), Queen Latifah On Set of Set If Off (1996), Pariah (film) (2011), Eve’s Bayou (1997), Detroit Mix The New Dance Show (1992), Shakedown (2018), a few of Jen Everett’s tiktok favorites and more. 

Music artists featured in the collage include Liv.e, Brian Harden, Caz Ear, THEESatisfaction, Dj Assault, Queen Latifah, Ohbliv, DJ Hiedi, Theo Parrish, lovenloops and more.

Side B: Your Body Remembers, Searching for Space

Side A: Memory, Grief & Deep Forgettings

panning shitty but fuck it #doingdigitalwrong

s/o to thebelovedlover aka  queen jessica aka boochie, my lover, creator in crime, handmade shit, for this dope as vinyl gangsta boo record

shotgunlove

s/o to @peyotecoyote for blessing me with the vibes and rhythms ("*women*" beat) to sample with black feminist thug shit. 

give.movefree{peyotecoyotesanchezblend]

On this day last year, March 6th , 2014, my mother flew away, levitated, we levitated with her. Earlier that year she made a new years resolution. She had never done this before. She had resolved to forgive her self for not being perfect. I mean mamma was got damn close. She was a brilliant mother. She read and work and daughtered, and sistered, mothered and loved her way to freedom, fiercely. Anyone that new “Mrs. Smith,” knew she loved her babies. She taught us the art of love and giving. She was the best black feminist librarian, black freedom lover, team mom, ptsa parent, health advocate, friend, shit talker, dancer, singer….on and on. She fought her way to freedom. Momma, fellow black girl genius, read Toni Morrison, J. California Cooper, Alice Walker, as growing black girl. She made sure sis and I knew love and blackness and womaness and ride or die fierce shit. 

She raised amazing Black daughters and raised so many others. Early last year, she told me in tears that she was making a decision to let the cancer take her life after a long, tumultuous battle. She fought for her daughters. She used to always say, “I’m tryna see my babies live. I want you to be happy. I am doing this for you.”

My brave sister and I looked our 51 year old mother and widow in the face last year, and told her, “it was okay to die. We love you.” I dedicate this “sonic black girl” vibe to my mother, father, and big sister. I dedicate this track to Dr. Ruth Nicole Brown, SOLHOT We Levitate, and the most dopest and humble person and poet, Nikky Finney, for blessing me with the vocals from Nikky Finney’s contributions to SOLHOT Presents: Black Girl Genius Week (BGGW) at the University of Illinois- Urbana Champaign (Nov. 3-8th, 2014). I dedicate this to SOLHOT homegirls, We Levitate (Dr. Beezy, (Queen) Jessica, Pretty Black)), BGGW, black girls and black people , elders, and ancestors everywhere. “Go on, Black Girl, levitate…”

blackgirllevitation

individual tracks recorded from cassettes then live mixed and recorded onto a cassette // sitting with my tape collection of black (femme-"as a method of accumulating meaning beyond the normative" - Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley) electronic artists // DIY // gritty // “The practice of doing digital wrongly is very much about the refusal of expertise, the embrace of who has your back, local sensibilities, spectacular interactions.” (Brown, Smith, Robinson, Garner, 2018). 


this mix is the product of ever-evolving ideas and making presented and played at the 2025 PopCon/ International Association for the Study of Popular Music. 

"Black [femme] artists have played crucial roles AS archives, as the innovators of performances and recordings that stood [stand] in for and as a memory of a people” (Daphne Brooks, 2021, p. 4).  

00:01-00:13/ Sweet Honey In the Rock- “I Be Your Water” (short clip), project: In This Land
00:15-01:12/ vhvl- “treee”, project: hem/sew
01:13-01: 1:54/ Gaiaearthpeace, project: No Perfect Forever
01:54-03:10/ lovenloops- “peaceisalife”, project: Don’t Ever Forget It
03:11-04:02/ Sha Shakusky, project: R.I.P. Ma and Pa’s
04:02-04:52/ Toni Cade Bambara Reading “The Organizer’s Wife” (short story)
04:51-05:47/ Mhysa, “Wish We Could Hang More”
05:51-06-17/ lovenloops-”R.I.P. Aretha & Nikki” 
06:17-06:52/ Could You Dim The Lights? Collage excerpt with Jen Everett
06:52-7:56/ Suzi Analogue- “We Cannot Hide”, project: NNXTAPE
8:01-9:29/ Melanie Charles’ “Midnight”, project: The Girl With The Green Shoes
9:30-10:36/ j words-“Brand New Wave”, project: Self-Connection 
10:36-11:14/ Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poem, “My Little Bout Town Gal”
11:15-12:35/ Illixie-“Birthload”, project: New Borns
12:35-13-25/ Xyla-“Narcisscus”, project: Ways 
13:26-14:21/ Heavee-“Closer”, project: TRAKPAK Vol. 1 & 2
14:22-15:21/ Suzi Analogue- “Ex Machina”, project: NNXTAPE
15:21-16:11/ twin jude- “bonus track”, project: MĒM
16:12-17:05 / Linafornia- “XTRCTIONS”, project: Yung

black femme tape frequencies mix

4thapeople

its been a while

lots cooking in my artist-scholar world

more to come...

"peace is a life...peace and justice...they are lifetime things that we must do...it won't happen in a year. you'll prolly have to go up go into peace, right?" - Sonia Sanchez 

peaceisalife

lovemenace (ineedmo)

love in loop form w/ some added soul from the brotha, @RomanLeeNorfleet! 



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