Juneteenth lineup round-up and Black Techno Matters scorchers

Juneteenth is about emancipation, and it’s expressed in musical joy across the USA today. Here are our friends from Black Techno Matters with their community calendar of events today — one might be near you — plus two recent releases you should hear wherever you are.

Listen: Falyakon, between Berlin and Ramallah, with an urgent music mix

Palestinian multi-instrumentalist and experimental DJ Falyakon has long been an inspiration to anyone who’s met her – for her energy, her vision, and the depth of feeling and activism threaded into her music mixes. We were fortunate to have her in the Refuge Worldwide studio over the weekend, in a mix that says what no opinion piece or social media post can.

Peter Kirn - February 29, 2024

Mixing, FX, recording, USB in a module: 1010music bluebox goes Eurorack

Hot on the heels of Noise Engineering’s Eurorack mixer dream, we get a different approach. 1010music announces today at Knobcon that they’re bringing their bluebox mixer to Eurorack format, with quite a few extras. That means if this was closer to what you wanted in modular mixing, now you have a Eurorack-native device. CDM has both to test – but first, here’s a look at Bluebox.

Peter Kirn - September 9, 2023

Techno meets graphic novel: Alan Oldham’s Johnny Gambit is back to the future

Peter Kirn - September 5, 2022

Trace the Black roots of disco, house, and techno in videos and reading – summer school is in

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2022

303 Day celebrates DJ Pierre’s acid house revolution – back to the Phuture

Peter Kirn - March 3, 2022

From Detroit and Berlin, a free set of sounds and a blazing compilation

Peter Kirn - January 6, 2022

Looking for a future for techno? Jlin’s “Embryo” is pure fire

Peter Kirn - October 22, 2021

Mourning the loss of Elbee Bad and Rodney Bakerr, House music innovators

Peter Kirn - June 4, 2021