DeForrest Brown, Jr. & Katia Mullova
<p>A TECHNO Conversation between DeForrest Brown, Jr. & Katia Mullova</p> <p>DeForrest Brown, Jr. is a producer, media theorist, and curator. Brown has released music both under his own name and with the Speaker Music moniker and he’s a representative of the Make Techno Black Again campaign. For this episode, he discussed with DJ and radio host Katia Mulluova some of the themes of Assembling a Black Counter Culture, to be released in 2021 by Primary Information Press. The book traces techno roots with a focus on Black experiences in industrialized labor, revisiting thinking and techniques behind key early players and placing them in conversation with the African-American working class in the historically emblematic city of Detroit.</p> <p>Opening and closing track courtesy of DJ Disrespect, released on 12″ vinyl by Scum Collective.</p>
Editors: Francesco Tenaglia
Contributors: DeForrest Brown, Jr., Katia Mullova
Music: DJ Disrespect
Part of: TECHNO Conversations