🔊🔊🔊 I am excited to present "Fugitive Erotics - A girly*** Mix" — an hourlong work by
@jsbxse , 2024
@bads_lab fellow Jared Brown (a.k.a. girly***).
Emerging from dialogues, research, and experiments conducted during BADS_lab 2024 and subsequent Futurhythmachines workshops, my latest book, Fugitive Erotics: Black Rites of Breakage & Repair, explores erotic desire as a dynamic, world-making force that resists containment and (re-)creates sensuality and intimacy in the break.
The book also considers how Black electronic dance musics — house, techno, jungle, and more — inherit and extend Afro-diasporic spiritual practices whose subliminal and sublime forces persist within, and insist upon, the sonic. Formed within urban and digital landscapes, these musics diffract ancestral African rhythms, producing new patterns of pulse and participatory antiphony (call-and-response).
The hourlong mix by 2024 BADS_lab fellow Jared Brown (a.k.a. girly***) interrogates and extends the book’s meditations on Black electronic dance musics. The full mix is available on the Fugitive Erotics project page on the BADS_lab website.
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girly*** is a DJ and performance alias born and currently based in Chicago. Bass, vocal samples, synths, vinyl, and community allow girly*** to bend time and bridge gaps between genres bred in the Midwest, Baltimore, the UK, the Tri-State area, and cyberspace. Listeners should expect the unexpected from a girly*** set. Every blend may not be perfect, but every blend will be poetic. SmartBar, Hidden Ideas, Smoke & Mirrors, Podlasie Club, and Miyagi Records are a few places girly*** has been witnessed.
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Fugitive Erotics and the mix aboe features art by 2024 BADS_lab fellow Letaru Dralega,
@letaru.dralega .
Dust, 2021 — Oil, spray paint & 24ct gold leaf on canvas