Suzi Analogue spoke with Kadallah Burrowes about using her label Never Normal to champion innovative Black creators.  

Suzi Analogue is a loudspeaker for innovative Black creators. In this week's RA Exchange, the producer, singer, songwriter and founder of Never Normal Records speaks with trans-disciplinary artist, musician, creative technologist Kadallah Burrowes about championing art from across the African diaspora. This is the first of two Exchanges hosted by Burrowes, who, next week, will be exploring the term "Afrofuturism" in an audio documentary that forms part of our celebration of Black History Month in the US. 

Suzi Analogue first experienced club and electronic music in her hometown of Baltimore. Starting out in her teens as a songwriter and producer, her engagement with creative platforms online led to her involvement in events and community radio while studying in Philadelphia.  

It was when she moved to The Bronx in New York that Analogue first started to feel there wasn't space for young and innovative Black electronic artists to showcase their work. As she played shows abroad and across Europe, she felt encouraged to start a platform of her own, a space to build her own archive and celebrate fellow artists. In 2014, she launched her label Never Normal, a commitment to bolstering Black femme-identifying people to advocate for music, whether through running labels, parties or just shouting about the new music you love. Since its launch, the label has featured work from artists in Atlanta, Oakland, Chicago, Brooklyn, Miami and more. "They're originators in their cities," she explained. "Never Normal is a journey that's building over time." 

In conversation with Burrowes, Analogue discussed the politics of Black futurism, travelling to Uganda as a US state department cultural diplomat and the importance of capturing and echoing ancestral messages through art and sound. 

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EX.597 Suzi Analogue

Kadallah Burrowes explores the term "Afrofuturism" with the help of Suzi Analogue, Neema Githere, Mia Imani Harrison and Jackie Queens.

This past Juneteenth, Burrowes held a digital event called A Moment In Between (after which this podcast is named) at COMMON, a digital club that forms part of Currents.FM. It was, in their words, "a digital pan-African celebration of Black liberation." The interviewees in this week's Exchange all helped make A Moment In Between possible: artists Jackie Queens and Suzi Analogue, plus cultural critics Neema Githere and Mia Imani Harrison. 

In this documentary-style podcast, which forms part of our celebration of Black Futures Month in the US, Burrowes et al. discuss the term "Afrofuturism. They discuss its imperfect, controversial nature (it was coined by a white academic), how it intersects with electronic music and its relationship to the legacy of the writer Octavia Butler. 

Last week's Exchange saw Burrowes in conversation with Analogue, the producer, singer, songwriter and founder of Never Normal Records. This week, Analogue delves deeper into her connection to the concept of Afrofuturism. "Afrofuturism to me is just being Black," she said. "It's a bunch of things. Self-determination, self-preservation and self-expression." 

Born in Nairobi and now based in Brooklyn, Neema Githere is a guerrilla theorist who works within the digital diaspora. In 2017, Githere coined the term "Afropresentism," which presents the idea that the Afrofuturism being theorised in the '90s and early '00s exists here and now. "Afrofuturism is concerned with space," Githere said. "Afropresentism is concerned with earth." 

Mia Imani Harrison is an interdisciplinary artist and conceptual creator working within dream technology. Her part in A Moment In Between saw COMMON, which had primarily been a space for music, become a place for Black people to come and talk about their dreams. Harrison's understanding of Afrofuturism began with "intergalactic Black folks" in music—Sun Ra, Grace Jones, Parliament-Funkadelic—and has grown into an interest in artists that build worlds and galaxies in their work. "I've always been interested in expanding our concept of the realities we exist within," she said. "Especially as Black people, because we're already told what we can and cannot do, and the perimeters of the spaces that we exist in." 

The final speaker is Jackie Queens, singer, songwriter, label and agency founder, and community member of Currents.FM and electronic music network female:pressure. Queens' thoughts about Afrofuturism tie in with Githere's Afropresentism. "People say Africa is the future," Queens said. "But I don't like to look at it that way. I always feel like we're the present."

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Ahead of her forthcoming 'INFINITE ZONEZ' compilation on @d_i_s_c_i_p_l_e_s, New York's @uziklip drops club heater 'SHINE NN 2DEEP' alongside @nappynappa and @junglepussy.

"These audio-visual mood boards are a preservational matrix assembled within a dazed world, where the axis of systemic oppressions routinely mutes young, not-rich Black femme voices," says Suzi Analogue on her latest project.

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Premiere: Suzi Analogue 'SHINE NN 2DEEP' (Infinite Zonez Edit 3)

Ducky & Suzi have entered the void, and brought out this Motivation Mini Mix of heat for PRESS PLAY 003. 25 minutes of Ducky masterfully mixing juke + club beats pairing Suzi's marathon soulful vocals mashing up everything from Aretha Franklin to Fetty Wap with an effortless flow. 
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PRESS PLAY 003 - Ducky x Suzi Analogue 'Motivation Mini Mix' • A Never Normal Mix

Suzi Analogue isn't just her name; it's a way of life. Inspired by RZA's audio alter ego, Bobby Digital, Suzi took on her moniker as an emblem to be as free and honest as possible in her art. Suzi has boldly forged a singular path through the male-dominated beat scene in her numerous capacities as a beatmaker, songwriter, vocalist (and much more!). From her Virginian suburban roots to the borough of Brooklyn, Suzi is a consummate tastemaker. With her music label (Never Normal Records), eclectic style and positive energy, Suzi gives us all the permission to be our uncompromising, vivid selves. Never not creating, Suzi's prepping the third volume of her ZONEZ music series for a 2017 release. [This episode features "Gurl Sweatshirt" from ZONEZ V.2 in its entirety.]

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