Washington, D.C.-based label Black Techno Matters has announced that it will kick off 2024 with a limited-edition 64GB USB drive for its second compilation album, "F_X_M_X_L_Y v2."
While the set contains over 17 hours of music and 130 songs from 16 artists, USB will also include archive pop-ups and footage from past Black Techno Matters concerts, two DJ mixes and three sample packs. The label also hinted at "other surprises" on the record via Bandcamp.
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Contributors include Adam 2, Blvksite, B_X_R_N_X_R_D, FUTURE DRUM CIRCLE, Jamal Dixon, Kotic Couture, MerlinBerlin, Outputmessage, Smoke & Tea and Trovarsi.
Each artist is given complete freedom to choose what they want to add to their USB folders, including modular live sets, sample packs and full EPs, as well as an avalanche of unreleased material and files.
Just 100 USB copies of Black Techno Matters' "F_X_M_X_L_Y v2" album, which will be an "instant addition to any DJ's collection", will be available for pre-order and will go on sale from January 12, 2024. The composition will also be available for pre-order. order . order. was released digitally on Bandcamp on the same day.
Black Techno Matters , founded by Bernard Farley in 2019 B_X_R_N_X_R_D, is a collective whose mission is to "reclaim techno as a Black expression in a society that has suppressed it, by creating spaces, both virtual and real, that "address to the black roots of black.” techno." '.
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The team also includes Marshall Stukes, the organization's technical director who oversees Black Techno Matters Radio , and Justin Barini-Rivers, aka Blvksite, the "Ableton ninja" who helps run the label as a song master for new collections and training. Children in music production.
Pre-order Black Techno Matters F_X_M_X_L_Y v2 USB here
Tibor Hesketh is Mixmag's digital intern, follow him on Twitter.
