BTM0010 - Outputmessage & Blinkhorn - Selected Remixes (2019-2022)
Artist: Outputmessage & Blinkhorn
Release: Selected Remixes (2019-2022)
Date: December 9, 2022
Tracks: 3
Tracklisting
01 Welcome to the Future (Blinkhorn Remix)
02 Feel the Love (Blinkhorn Remix)
03 Conversations in the Radical Library (Blinkhorn Remix)
Selected Remixes (2019-2022) by Outputmessage & Blinkhorn, the 10th release on the Black Techno Matters music label, serves as a companion piece to Conversations in the Radical Library by Outputmessage. It features three remixes of Outputmessage tracks: “Welcome to the Future” from the experimental album series, Weapons of Mass Distraction, “Feel the Love” from the 8 hour album Love & War, and finally a 54 min remix of Conversations in the Radical Library. It’s a labor of love by Patrick Blinkhorn, a good friend and bandmate to Outputmessage aka Bernard Farley, founder of Black Techno Matters. Bernard and Patrick have been collaborating since 2017 as the ambient band Smoke & Tea, recording music on Sunday afternoons over tea in Bernard’s attic leading to multiple albums and immersive live performances from the duo. Blinkhorn’s expertise on the Moog One synthesizer as well as his compositional attention to detail and textures shines on Selected Remixes. “The original tracks really resonated with me. My process included listening to the originals many times. For ‘Feel the Love’, I tried to play with imagery in the lyrics. And for “Conversations' I did my signature synth improvisation in single take recordings, working with the mood in the original track. It also helps that I was making the remixes for a very dear friend of mine.”
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.