e-flux.com/journal/132/508435/mix-black-techno-queer-rave/

When organizing my mixes, I spend a lot of time developing a visual language to accompany my selections. Keeping in mind the visuality of these spaces, in the mix above I felt that it was important to include tracks that carry these theoretical/cultural components effortlessly. From sampling Jenn Nkiru’s short film Rebirth Is Necessary, to Fred Moten’s book Black and Blur, and my own and my contemporaries’ poetic interventions, this mix not only explores the ability to bend time, but also to recontextualize music. While staying committed to a climactic narrative, the mix elaborates on the fluidity between legacy, gender, and race. Throughout my practice as an artist as well as a DJ, I often think about remedy, and how the work I am a part of can be utilized in that sense. In Black to Techno, written and directed by Jenn Nkiru, Elijah Maja voices on Arthur Jafa’s theory of the dropout:

The dropout within techno and all other forms of Black musical composition speaks to the idea of the missing … On a deeper, deeper psychoanalytical level, what you’re essentially hearing is Black people creating a universe within which that rupture, that loss that we are missing is fixed. Forcing an awareness upon us of what has been removed then taken from us. The missing, that thing we’ll never find, never get back, never recover, it's speaking to that. The dropout is essentially a pulling away, an acknowledgment of a presence, an energy that has been removed from itself.

I argue that this gestural practice and intersection of Blackness, queerness, and transness works in tandem with what Eshun mentions: the conscientious notion of filling a rapture.

Ultimately, staying true to the elements that have established MORENXXX, I wanted to meddle in the harder side of techno (and trance), and centralize artists who are Black, queer, and/or trans—for example BEARCAT, TYGAPAW, Him Hun, Quest?nmarc, and DJ Hyperdrive—and blend them with legends like Robert Hood and Claude Young. All the while I’m incorporating tracks from WTCHCRFT, Xiorro, Estoc, and Ariel Zetina, who have been carrying on these legacies with enigmatic force.

E-Flux: Black Techno| Queer Rave MORENXXX

Dinamarca’s outing for Lost Music Festival 2023 fully delivered the hypnotic and dreamy atmosphere we know and love him for; blending his own melodic, trance-infused productions with cumbia, dembow and reggaeton. Pure dancefloor bliss to get lost in.

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These sets were part of a pair of events presented by Seraphim Bookings to highlight Juliana Huxtable on her tour through Texas. The events were on April 4th and 5th, 2025 in Austin (10pm-2am) and San Antonio (10:00pm - 5:30am) respectively

They featured performances from AK-4YA, Amarji King, Sicc Puppy, Rosei City, Lucía Beyond, and Juliana Huxtable.

Please enjoy these archived recordings

San Antonio sets were recorded on 4x CDJ 2000 Nexus 2s and a DJM 900nxs2

Austin Sets recorded on 4CDJ3000s, 2 Technics 1200 MK5gs, and a Pioneer V10.

Rosei City - Seraphim Presents Juliana Huxtable - San Antonio TX - 20250409

Don Eduardo Presents: Action at a Distance - 04202024

Henry R. Live DJ set with Ledef and Breezy MCing

Henry R. Live at Touching Infinite

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