BTM0008 - STUKES - Closing EP
Artist: Stukes
Release: Closing EP
Date: November 11, 2022
Tracks: 4
Tracklisting
01 Closing
02 34
03 Closing (Marshall Willis Remix)
04 Closing (Video Edit)
Black Techno Matters releases their eighth digital EP, Closing by techno powerhouse Stukes, DC’s next rising star. The title track is an artistic ode to the tri-state area known as the DMV (DC, Maryland, and Virginia), and features a sample of the “doors closing” warning, recorded on the Metro’s Yellow Line. Its high energy percussion and ethereal vocal pads gives the mundane commute a new life through sound and experience. “34” takes us deep into a dark tunnel of strange metallic screeches mixed with reverberating melodic swells. Rounding out the EP is a mysterious and mangled drone remix by Marshall Willis, Stukes’s ambient alter ego, and finally a video edit of “Closing” which hints at visuals to soon to come.
BLACK TECHNO MATTERS
Black Techno Matters is a collective whose mission is to reclaim techno as a manifestation of Black expression in a society that has oppressed it by creating spaces, both virtual and IRL, that celebrate the black roots of techno. An assertion and a reminder that Techno IS Black. It was started in October 2019 when its founder, Bernard Farley, did a google search for “Black techno artists” and was disappointed with the lack resources highlighting black techno artists, especially considering that techno is a genre invented by three black teenagers in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan (The Belleville Three). Since then Black Techno Matters has highlighted hundreds of black electronic music artists through its robust Instagram Take Over series (where black artists highlight other black artists on a daily basis), spotify playlists, radio mix series, livestreams, outdoor events such as the Techno in the Park series, and most recently Liber8 US, a historic Juneteenth event spanning 7 cities and involving over 40 artists from across the country.