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Culture & FlavorDiggin' in the CratesOn this episode of Culture & Flavor, Zella talks with DJ Lynnee Denise about the legacy of Black music. Denise is a global practitioner of sound, language, and Black Atlantic thought, Lynnée Denise is an Amsterdam-based writer and interdisciplinary artist from Los Angeles, California. Shaped by her parent’s record collection and the 1980's.
Denise’s work traces and foregrounds the intimacies of underground nightclub movements, music migration, and bass culture in the African Diaspora. She coined the term DJ Scholarship in 2013, which explores how knowledge is gathered, interpreted, and produced through a conceptual and theoretical framework, shifting the role of th...2025-04-131h 02
Première Pluie radioLynnée Denise : « Quand il y a un vide dans les archives, il y a un vide dans la mémoire » — InterviewInterview avec Lynnée Denise, DJ, écrivaine, chercheuse et artiste pluridisciplinaire originaire de Los Angeles.Propos recueillis avant sa conférence au FRAC Lorraine et son DJ set aux Trinitaires de Metz, le 06 février 2025. Lisez notre site : premierepluie.comSuivez-nous sur Instagram : @premierepluieHébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.2025-02-1811 min
Doing MusicTeaching Blacktronika with King BrittHow do you go about teaching a history of electronic music which fairly credits Black innovators? In this episode of Doing Music, King Britt talks to Craig Schuftan and Christa Belle about his groundbreaking Blacktronika course at University of California San Diego. In the process of educating students about seminal music movements pioneered by Black communities—from funk and disco through Chicago house and Detroit techno on to drum & bass and beyond—the acclaimed US producer reveals the positive impact being an educator and instigator has had on his own music making. Learn about the importance of nurturing community and...2024-09-051h 28
KPFA - Hard Knock RadioFund Drive Special: Why Willie Mae Thornton MattersDavey D speaks with DJ Lynnée Denise about the book, Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters. Born in Alabama in 1926, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, buried in an indigent’s grave—Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton’s life events epitomize the blues. Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters “samples” elements of Thornton’s art—and, occasionally, the author’s own story—to create “a biography in essays” that explores the life of its subject as a DJ might dig through a crate of records. Denise connects Thornton’s vaudevillesque performances in Sammy Green’s Hot Harlem Revue to the vocal improvisations that...2024-05-1059 min
FDU EdCast50 Years of Hip Hop: A Talk with DJs on Media, Technology, & Writing in the 21st CenturySeason 1, Episode 5: 50 Years of Hip Hop: A Talk with DJS on Media, Technology, & Writing in the 21st Century Live from the Metro Campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, recorded in November 2023 Featuring Dr. Todd Craig, Associate Professor of English, CUNY Graduate Center. Hosted by Dr. Brian Mooney, Assistant Professor of Education, FDU. Executive Produced by Allen Debren, Director of Instructional Technology Development. Listen to the Podcast: Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fdu-edcast/id1524223300 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/4EhdUd1xcmrIWRobmO29UJ 2024-03-141h 02
KPFA - Law & Disorder w/ Cat BrooksAppropriating Rock n Roll from Legendary Artist Willie ‘Big Mama’ Mae Thornton w/ Lynnée DeniseOn today’s episode we explore the racialized, gendered, sexualized, and overarchingly monetized, tension of that music, and its relationship to normative socials and economics of whiteness – all through the lens of one of the legendary creators and original influencers of music that became known as rock and roll. That’s someone who is popularly, although not popularly enough, known as Big Mama Thornton – not famous enough for penning songs that white artists made a killing from, like Elvis’ version of Hound Dog and Janis Joplin’s version of Ball n Chain. We spend the hour discussing a biography that begins...2024-01-021h 02
Drapetomaniax: Unshackled HistorySister Rosetta Tharpe: The Woman Who Invented Rock & Roll (featuring Lynnée Denise and Reagan Gomez)Who really invented rock n roll? The facts are clear—it was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the Black queer gospel-influenced rock and roll Beyoncé of the 1930s and ‘40s. Music legends like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash stole her musical style without proper acknowledgement or credit. In a renaissance of sound, celebrity and high drama we salute the legend Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
Drapetomaniax is created by Michael Harriot in collaboration between OtherTone, Sony Music Entertainment and Queer Media.
This episode features:
Lynnée Lynnée Denise
Honey ...2023-10-1739 min
Real Ballers Read76. Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters with Lynnée DeniseLynnée Denise filled the silence of her pandemic with the rich sounds and legacy of Willie Mae Thorton. The outcome of that deep listening, reading, and viewing practice is Lynnée's amazing new book, Why Willie Mae Thornton Matters.
In this interview, she talks about her interdisciplinary and interdependent approach to writing her book, how she came to love reading, and where she sees the legacy of Willie Mae Thornton today.
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In this interview, she talks about her interdisciplinary and interdependent approach to writing her book, how she came to love reading, and where she sees the legacy of Willie Mae Thornton today.
Buy Willie Mae Thornton Matters Here
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The Documentary PodcastBeats, rhymes and life: Hip-hop at 50DJ and writer Lynnée Denise marks hip-hop’s 50th year by speaking to leading names about the music, the art and the creativity of this global cultural movement. Legendary hip-hop producer Pete Rock reminisces over the last five decades, celebrating the artform, exploring its social impact and ask what lies ahead in hip-hop’s story. Artist and rapper Chali 2na from Jurassic 5 tells us how the social realism of Grand Master Flash and the Furious 5 inspired him to write rhymes.2023-08-0626 min
The Prince MixtapeBeyond The LaceHow did Prince engage with the world? Prince was a quiet activist and some say a feminist. We talk to Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza about Prince’s activism. And professor Lynnée Denise helps us makes sense of Prince’s complicated relationship with women. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy2023-05-2441 min
The Prince MixtapeLove Symbol No. 2What inspired Prince to scrawl the word “slave” on his face and change his name to an unpronounceable symbol? Prince’s first manager, Owen Husney, scholar Lynnée Denise, and writer Anil Dash unpack Prince’s battle with his label to own his masters. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy2023-05-1037 min
The Prince MixtapeShe’s Doing What with a Magazine?!How did Prince’s music end up being debated in the halls of Congress? Susan Rogers, the recording engineer on Prince’s Purple Rain album, shares what it was like making songs like “Darling Nikki” in Prince’s basement home studio. And scholar Lynnée Denise shares a personal story of how “Darling Nikki” impacted her life. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy2023-04-2639 min
If You Don't KnowThe story of house music’s black rootsWith Beyoncé and Drake’s new house tracks dominating the dance charts, we check out the origins of the genre and how it started in the black LGBTQ community. Lynnée Denise, a DJ and dance music expert, tells De-Graft about the history of house, and BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra presenter DJ Jeremiah Asiamah explains why it’s not just “oontz” music.We also talk to Katouche and Hannah, who are both disabled, about their experience at Wireless Festival – they say access was “terrible”.And following the racist abuse of Lewis Hamilton, we hear from Corey Alleyne, a...2022-07-0834 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)The Black Atlantic/Black Fantastic @1BTN FMI am happy to announce the relaunching of my radio show and its new title, The Black Atlantic/Black Fantastic, on 1BTN every second Sunday from 4-6 pm (UK) and 11-1 (EST). Starts today!Shout out to Paul Gilroy’s text The Black Atlantic and the late Caribbean Canadian Richard Iton, whose epic work, In Search of the Black Fantastic, shaped much of my approach to the diaspora. For those of you who I’ve rolled with for years, you know his book has been cited like the bible. It has been since 2013.And speaking of t...2022-04-112h 00
Gender Troublesbell hooksThis week: a celebration of the life and work of bell hooks, who died last week at the age of 69. bell was an unparalleled writer, poet, and theorist, and was incredibly influential in the feminist movement. In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss some of their favourite pieces by bell.
Please read the following pieces of writing about bell, written by Black folks and people of colour.
Hua Hsu: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks
Arabelle Sicardi: https://arabellesicardi.substack.com/p/bell-hooks-will-live-forever
Maiysha Kai: https://www.theroot.com/bell-hooks-author-educator-and-feminist-icon-dead-at-1848220902
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Afropop WorldwideThe Kwaito GenerationProducer Brandi Howell speaks with DJ Lynneé Denise, an artist and scholar of underground cultural movements and the electronic music of the African diaspora. This podcast explores “DJ Scholarship” and the evolving music and cultural conversation of the Black Atlantic.2021-11-1627 min
Object Of SoundBiz Markie Was More Than “Just A Friend” (feat. Lynnée Denise and Dart Adams)“His fingerprints are all over the culture.” On this week’s episode, we pay tribute to the great Biz Markie, the legendary rapper, deejay, sampler, and emcee who passed away earlier this month. Hanif invites hip hop experts, Dart Adams and DJ Lynnée Denise onto the show, to celebrate the fullness of Markie’s legacy-- someone who masterfully used humor to create a persona that could always get a crowd roaring. We explore how Biz Markie was so much more than the clown prince or his hit song “Just A Friend,” but rather, a musician whose legacy continues to touch all...2021-07-3031 min
Chez Ru(2.3) "My Ancestors Taught Me" _ feat. My Scholarly HomiesS1E3: /// ... This week, I reflect on a conversation I curated at the African Diaspora Summit. I had an in-depth discussion with Dana Saxon (founder of Ancestors Unknown), Lynnee Denise (DJ + Scholar), Lamar "Black Ice" Manson (Spoken Word Pioneer), and Lysanne Charles (Writer + Activist) ... about black identity and their expat journeys. ///Support the show2021-05-1638 min
Triggered#MessyMyaThis week’s triggers:Messy Myahttps://www.courthousenews.com/beyonce-sued-for-sampling-late-rappers-songs/Tamar Braxton’s suicide attempthttps://www.billboard.com/amp/articles/news/television/9427618/tamar-braxton-opens-up-suicide-attempt Covid 39 podcasthttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/covid39/id1506823267Mask wars in GAhttps://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/16/politics/georgia-kemp-mask-mandate/index.htmlP-Valleyhttps://g.co/kgs/vYgjq1The Message https://g.co/kgs/J2VKfkHidden by the Shade: The Invisibility of Black Queer Life...2021-03-0539 min
ICADJ Lynnée Denise: Misery Resistance and Sonic Relief: 07.09.19DJ Lynnée Denise: Misery Resistance and Sonic Relief: 07.09.19 by Institute of Contemporary Arts, London2020-11-043h 10![Culture Radio Archive [2017/2022]](https://s3.castbox.fm/d0/14/1b/5d187844abaffb88237cb58fdd.jpg)
Culture Radio Archive [2017/2022]CRE147 Powertalk w/ Lynée Denise - 11th September 2020 Lynnée Denise speaks on power dynamics and systems of oppression in the music industry. Lynnée Denise is an artist, writer, and scholar and she uses DJ culture to create forums & exploring the music of the African diaspora. She examines and teaches the migration of Black culture, people, and ideas through an interdisciplinary approach: workshops, lectures, and presentations. 2020-09-1538 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)The Afro-Digital Migration: Global Blackness and Amapiano in Post Apartheid South AfricaSouth Africa is one of my musical mothers. I discovered this nearly twenty years ago when I stepped on the continent for the first time and landed near the Indian Ocean in the city of Durban. By the time I pulled up to Durban, I had already spent that entire year listening to a Zulu musician, also from Durban, by the name of Busi Mhlongo. And while her name never really circulated in the States like a Miriam Makeba or a Letta M’bulu, I knew that her voice, her music, and her movement was an invitation to reacquaint my...2020-09-101h 00
Matri-Archi(tecture)Moving Through Places, Space and TimeThis MA episode is written to feature the work of two black queer womxn, as Djs they are interested in, and working on, using music as a political tool. This, while rooting the experience of the music in the feel and language that reveals itself when music is given space to breath by respecting its cultural and social setting.
A conversation featuring bell hooks and Cornel West introduced opened the door to Lynnée Denise, a Dj scholar interested in creating sensory experiences rooted in cultural histories of marginalized people. That then opened the next door to a music mix, S...2019-04-2100 min
Heat RocksWomen Behaving Boldly #6: Evelyn McDonnell on Janelle Monae's "Dirty Computer" (2018)The Album: Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer (2018) To close out our Women Behaving Boldly mini-series, we brought things all the way up to the present by tackling a 2018 album. Our guest, music writer and journalism professor Evelyn McDonnell wanted to talk about Atlanta's Janelle Monae and her recent LP, Dirty Computer. Between her various alter egos and concept-driven albums, Monae's been a critic's darling since she first broke out ten years ago and the intervening decade hasn't dimmed her creative appeal a bit. Dirty Computer, and its accompany mini-movie of music videos, touches on many of Monae...2018-11-0856 min
Heat RocksWomen Behaving Boldly #2: Aretha Franklin Retrospective feat. Lynnée DeniseThe Albums: Aretha Franklin: Young, Gifted, and Black (1974) Aretha Franklin: Jazz to Soul (1994) Aretha Franklin: Rare & Unreleased Recordings from the Golden Reign of the Queen of Soul (2007) Heat Rocks had always planned to sit down with DJ Lynnée Denise, an LA-based DJ and music scholar, but when Aretha Franklin passed on August 16th, we invited her to come talk with us about the Queen's life and legacy as part two of our series Women Behaving Boldly. What a fantastic decision! Admittedly, Queen Aretha's discography is too vast and too fire to be d...2018-10-1157 min
TheSpin1theCONSENTconvo L Denise & I Uzuri Oct 13 2016THE SPIN: my weekly all WOC media panel
#theCONSENTconvo: public conversation campaign on consent
PART I: Black Queer & Bi Women Talk Consent:
PART II: Sexual Assault Survivors Legislation:
Host: Esther Armah
Contributors: Lynnee Denise and Imani Uzuri2016-10-1300 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)The Children of Baldwin (Live and Direct from Paris)I woke up in Paris this morning reflective and excited about how I found my way here. I’m in Paris because I’m a DJ and because I fell in love with house music enough to ask questions about its roots. In that asking I studied liner notes, read books, watched documentaries, and travelled globally to learn of house in the African Diaspora. I made my way across dance floors to get a sense of the network of underground club culture that’s existed in the name of house for multiple decades. My work as a DJ led to the...2016-05-3055 min
TheSpin1The Spin May 5 2016THE SPIN; my weekly WOC podcast, on air US, Ghana, Nigeria
Lil Kim: the cancer of colorism - individual, institutional, global
Congressional Caucus on Black Girls & Women: a first
The 'Good' Black Man/The 'Feminist' Black Man: a public convo
Host: Esther Armah
Guests: Dr Yaba Blay, Joan Morgan, Lynnee Denise2016-05-0600 min
TheSpin1The Spin April 29 2016THE SPIN: my weekly all WOC media podcast on air in US, Ghana, Nigeria
BEYONCE: Lemonade
HARRIET TUBMAN: $20 bill
PRINCE: death and musical life
Host: Esther Armah
Contributors: Professor Blair Kelley, DJ Scholar Lynnee Denise2016-04-2900 min
TheSpin1The Spin February 11 2016THE SPIN:
Prof Imani Perry: Stopped. Body Searched. Arrested. Cuffed To A Table
Beyoncé Formation: Creole Sideye, Black South Motherland, Black Queer Expression
Host: Esther Armah
Prof Imani Perry & Monifa Bandele. Dr Yaba Blay & Lynnee Denise2016-02-1100 min
Artists Without DayJobsEP 14: Funding your Art through Grants and ‘Entertainment with a Thesis’ with Lynnée Denise For the past decade, Lynnée has worked as an artist who incorporates self-directed project based research into interactive workshops, music events and public lectures that offer participants the opportunity to develop an intimate relationship with under-explored topics related to the cultural history of marginalized communities. She creates multi-dimensional and multi-sensory experiences that require audiences to apply critical thinking to how the arts can hold viable solutions to social inequality.
Today Jo-Ná Williams interviews Lynnée and you won't want to miss a minute of this interview!2016-01-0657 min
HOMOGROUND - queer music radio (LGBTQ)[#105] DJ Lynnee Deniseparty with pride!
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DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Sounds of a Global Black Analysis: The Berlin Sessions IIIn 1985 Loose Ends performed on Soul Train and just like all other performers who graced the stage, Don Cornelius strolled up with a mic and a series of music journalistic questions. When guitarist Carl McIntosh opened his mouth to discuss how the band met, I experienced my first ever encounter with Black Britain. With a precious amount of naiveté my nine-year old mind asked, “So Black people exist outside of America and outside of Africa?” As far as I knew we were between those two places and those two places only.
Prior to discovering their British voices my family had L...2015-06-041h 03
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Dark Black Girls II (The Emotionally Rigorous Ones)...An unreleased mix recorded in Berlin in 2015. In a sentence I would describe it as Diasporic Quiet Storm music. A lover once called me emotionally rigorous and when we broke up, these songs came to me, an archive of sonic heart reflections.2015-04-0500 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Bjork Rare Gems and Future ClassicsThis mix is for Black women who love Björk Guðmundsdóttir. For some of us Björk is one of the guiding forces in the most secret parts of our emotional lives. And there is something to be said about the fact that my deepest, most intimate romantic relationships have been with Black women who speak Björk. She is one of the most brilliant artists of our time, with relevance far beyond the boringly sensational Academy Award swan dress debacle, which on the low, I believe was a challenge to American popular cultural values. Like on some...2015-02-2055 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)OurBodyA mix celebrating the last year in my 30s, please accept the answers to the deepest of questions.
Track List:
Nobody Else But You But You Dance
Be Enough (feat. Shea Soul) Opolopo
I Want U (Yoruba Soul Mix)
Set Me Free (Native Roots Remix) Mr Funk Daddy, DJ Sue
Into Your Story (Kai Alce Remix) Sandman, Riverside, Jeremy Ellis, Ayro
I Cling (Yoruba Soul Mix) Deetron & Ovasoul7
My Desire (Jullian Gomes Remix) Copyright, Donae'o
Walk A Mile (Ultra Tone Remix) Cuebur feat. Nathan X
Hero (Hang Session Candi Mix) Vincemo Ft MOT
Good Inside (Cuebur Remix) Ckenz Voucal...2014-11-2759 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)African Rhythm FictionSun Ra would have been 100 years old today and I'm in London preparing to present the soundtrack of my own brand of AfroFuturism. Please enjoy the second and final installment of the "Hibernation Series." Detroit's winter cracked my creative spirit wide open. This mix features the electronic music from Africa and space themed Black American jazz. Fix your mind for this.
Satellites Are Spinning Sun Ra Space Is The Place
Amapheyile Amampondo
Fa Laay Fanaan (Ashley Beedle on Marz Mix)
Segunguwo Robert Machiri
“Take Me Out of It” Toni Morrison
Madan Salif Keita
Ancestry Boddhi Satva
Ubatuba (BSC AfroTech Mix...2014-05-2250 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Afro-Digital Migration: House Music in Post Apartheid South Africa Vol. III wrote this during layovers between Toronto and London, on my way to Amsterdam for the summer. Before I start my next voyage, I wanted to offer my musical reflections on South Africa. Three days ago (April 27, 2014), South Africa's democracy turned 20 years old. I spent much of December and January in South Africa, thanks to the support of my community of listeners, family and friends and a generous grant from The Astraea Foundation Global Arts Fund. This was my third time in South Africa; the first trip happened in 2001 and the second in 2011. The purpose of the trip was...2014-04-301h 14
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Soulful Critical Thought: bell hooks and the Making of a DJ Scholar“Your heart has to be ready to handle the weight of your calling,” is what she said casually over Korean BBQ, and for this reason and more I grew up reading bell hooks. ‘Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery’ was my first dance with her mind. In it she taught me how to identify the ways that patriarchy, white supremacy and global capitalism threatened humanity’s well-being. More specifically, she challenged me to examine the ways in which our own families replicate models of oppression, sometimes trumping the need, or the awareness of the need, for self-care. bell hooks...2014-04-201h 14
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Dark Black Girls (Not Complexion, Complexity)I started compiling music for “Dark Black Girls” in Atlanta, early 2012. I wasn’t quite sure of what direction the music would head in after deciding on the first song, “When I Grow Up” by Fever Ray, a song introduced to me by the hyper-talented Faatimah Stevens, who created the visuals for the sound. In the end I learned that each song was a different iteration of reggae music, more specifically, the one drop. The mix was completed in May 2012, days before I moved to Montreal, Quebec for a stint. I decided that I would release it during a different...2014-02-1440 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Funk, Faith, Praise (Fly Away Trayvon)I never intended to release this mix. I considered it to be unfinished, in need of a polishing. Today, I heard it and it allowed me the space to breathe, to remember, to let go, so in that sense, it is perfect and I’m offering it AS IS. AS US. For Trayvon.
Two years ago when Gil Scot Heron died I compiled and mixed music that spoke to the depth of joy and despair that filled his life, and ours as we witnessed his decline. Halfway through the mix I was confronted by the truth of Gil’s life...2013-07-1453 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)The Love Space DemandsThe Love Space Demands, is a choreopoem published in 1991, by Ntozake Shange. In it she returned to the blend of music, dance, poetry and drama that characterized For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide....Her work has been described as sexy, discomforting, energizing, revealing, occasionally smug, and fascinating.”
This is true.
Ntozake Shange forces the kind of reflection that creates discomfort...growth. The first time I heard the words "The Love Space Demands" I paused and dropped everything. That's it. The space, the time, the clarity, the beauty and the pain that holds the hand of growing.
The process of...2013-02-141h 07
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)School of Badu"The School of Badu" is a mix (compilation) inspired by one of the sexiest encounters I've had to date. Amazing what a deep soul connection with another human being can do to and for an artist. The heart is a beast. Take a ride through some of my favorite live performances and studio songs that, in my opinion, exemplify Erykah's work as the multi-dimensional, soul stirring and body moving performer that she is. Listen carefully, then pass it along. Dallas, stand up. embrace....2012-12-1243 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Southern Cosmology: Love Letter to AtlantaI moved to Atlanta from Brooklyn in March 2011 as a part of a Great (Re) verse Migration. Since being here I've been inspired by the calm of the breeze, the soul of the people and the movement on the dance floor. In circles we dance to house music, fed by rhythms that translate ancestral languages. Bass. With this mix I want to give back to ATL the love I've received, the creativity that's swinging from the history of these trees...and this dirt. Red Clay. My ancestors, my future. Take a musical journey with me as I mix some...2012-07-061h 13
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)The Afro Digital Migration: House Music in Post Apartheid South AfricaThe moment I finished this mix, I put my headphones on and danced...to the entire thing.
South Africa moves me.
There cannot be a separation between the music, the history and the people.
Layers.
With the support of a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study grant, I paid a visit to South Africa, determined to understand The Afro Digital Migration: House Music in Post Apartheid South Africa. I wanted to explore how house music took root in South Africa and shaped its national identity. The impetus for this research was my belief that electronic music in the African Diaspora...2012-03-091h 08
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Mighty Real: The Sound of TomorrowThe second scholar provides Haiku poetry inspired by Episode 2 "Mighty Real: The Sound of Tomorrow. This is none other than the author, poet, activist, lover, freedom fighter, professor, emcee, freestyler, vocalist, edutainer, tease, father, big brother, publisher, friend, papa bear, curator, scholar, raptivist, public intellectual, spiritualist, house-head: Mr. Tim’m West.
Jimmy B-boy blues
wide-eyed and full like his laugh
surrender to joy
We close our eyes
inheriting the praise dance
of sinner sermons
Sweet serenity
baby powder voudou dust
Eden where we dance2011-09-031h 04
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)High Holy Days: The Children of BaldwinWildSeed Music NYC is proud to present its first ever double mixed cd, High Holy Days: The History and Future of House Music.
Episode 1 ”“The Children of Baldwin,” explores several periods of classic house where I mix both Chicago and New York City underground gay club hits to highlight the infant stages of house music. This compilation focuses on the music of two popular clubs credited with initiating the globalization of house music: Dj Larry Levan’s Paradise Garage Club in New York City and DJ Ron Hardy’s Music Box in Chicago. Many dancers, djs and listeners from the early...2011-09-031h 01
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Paris Surrender...Liner notes for this mix are brought to you by my brother and friend Asadullah Saed Muhammad. His words speak truth to heart. Authenticity meets history for a future of honesty and peace.
I want to love
Love you like Mother
Father
god
Introduced me to her
As soon as I saw you
Touch you like
Black power
Touched me
Pick the cotton out your mind
And make a cloth of you
West africa and detroit
Your smile
Make your day
With your words
Write me a poem for me
And hand you my art
Coloring in chakras
I...2011-06-031h 14
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)The Lonely LondonersDrum and Bass is Black Music…
On the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton riots, a historic reaction to the hostility and xenophobic environment that informed the policing of African and Caribbean immigrants, I examined the ruthless desire to keep Britain White. I pulled from Sam Selvon’s 1956 novel “The Lonely Londoners,” which tells the story of the Caribbean community’s communal response to the English brand of white supremacy and their cultural preservation as a means for survival. Additionally, I sought the political, social, and musicological context of a sound that takes root in Sly and Robbie’s Reggae Music—Drum a...2011-05-0849 min
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)Emotional MigrationJourney with me on this "emotional migration" and expand in your freedom. This heartbreakingly sexy mix was inspired by my physical transformation and geographical relocation 2010-2011. "God is Change."
Intro Drop—malena perez
1. Wake With the Day —Koyla Feat Zaki Ibrahim (Boddhi Satva Afri Soul Mix)
2. Eternal Love—Claude Monnet Journey into Dub—Daugi Rodann & Timothee Milton
3. Messages from the Stars— The Rah Band (Atjazz remix)
4. Clap Your Hands—Zakes Bantwini feat Xolani Sithole
5. The Storm-Dan the Black Russian Anderson
6. Love Someone (Atjazz) Feat Robert Owens
7. At Midnight The DiscoCowboys (Steve Bugs always late mix)
8. Sleeper (Sleeper) Jimpster
9. So Astounded D...2011-04-141h 02
DJ Lynnée Denise (Amsterdam, Johannesburg, London, Saturn)PedagogyA collage of deep house rhythms and seamless blends! These house musical selections represent the full spectrum of sub genre interests that dj lynnee denise developed with her ear to the New York scene. Pedagogy is the first of a series of summer house mixes from an album called "Givin up Sleep for House."
1. Life Youssou N’Dour
2. Everything in it’s Right Place (Radiohead) Afefe Iku
3. Secret Recipe Fabio Genito
4. Afro Bionics –Djinji Brown
5. Casabancal Soul (Casamena remix)
6. I’ll Never Know (Touch Tuesday mix) Wil Milton featuring Lauren chaplain
7. Blue and Deep Jephte Guillame
8. Russelology—Flowriders
9. Black Man (deep...2009-05-0755 min