BTM0012 - Gladstone Deluxe - Purgatory 7 EP
Artist: Gladstone Deluxe
Release: Purgatory 7 EP
Date: May 5, 2023
Tracks: 5
Tracklisting
01 GXGXGX
02 Hot People Party
03 Purgatory 7
04 GXGXGX (Blvksite Remix)
05 Hot People Party (B_X_R_N_X_R_D R3M1X)
New York based artist @gladstonedeluxe provides intelligent & technologically enhanced sounds for the 12th release from Black Techno Matters titled Purgatory 7 EP. His work takes the form of recorded media using percussion, electronics, installations, and performance. While percussion is often only tied to the act of striking an object, Gladstone Deluxe sees percussion as an expressive manifestation of time architectures that bind humans, framed by the larger rhythmical walls of sun-rise and sun-set. On Purgatory 7 EP, musical rhythm becomes a unique tool for celebrating nonlinearity, asymmetry and difference in society. Accompanied by two fiery remixes by Black Techno Matters' very own @b_x_r_n_x_r_d & @blvksite, Purgatory 7 EP will be available on all streaming platforms and Bandcamp on May 5 2023.
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.