This episode of Sonic Gnostic Research originally aired 4.2.23 on Moon Glow Radio
When Moor Mother declares “free jazz as a liberation technology”, she seems to be referring to music’s magical ability to be a sonic repository for ideas, feelings, histories, spells, energies, visions & potentialities. In the mainstream, these possibilities and information that challenge the narrative of neoliberalism are suppressed, so music, art, books and films become some of the only containers for this information to exist, until a time when these revolutionary energies are able to blossom in material dimensions. If art didn’t possess this power, Capital wouldn’t focus so much energy on controlling a narrative; fascist movements wouldn’t be motivated to burn or ban books or other revolutionary media.
As a means of further exploring this concept of music as a liberation technology, this brooding mix channels vital information & powerful energies found within the sonic codes of these records. The gritty electronics, de-constructed experimentation and post-industrial beats that lie within create an atmosphere that sonically reflects the dystopian realities of our times, while maintaining a powerful spirit of resistance instead of hopelessness or despair. Artist like Dälek, Moor Mother, The Knife, Joe Rainey, & Efrim Menuck draw from philosophies of de-colonialism, Marxism, Black Quantum Futurism, & anarchy to illuminate & confront oppressive systems as they really are, inspiring collective resistance, and illuminating new pathways forward.
Mix Profile:
Styles: Post-Industrial, Synth Pop, Trip-Hop, Post-Rock, Industrial Pow Wow, Experimental Hip-Hop, Glitch Folk, Avant-Rock, Progressive Electronic, Organic Beat Music
Moods: Gritty, Dystopian, Rebellious, Political, Futuristic, Triumphant, Brooding, Nocturnal, Heavy
Selections – Click album covers for further digging
| Artist Name | Song Title | Album Name | Label | Timestamp |
| The Knife | Forest families | Silent Shout | Mute | 0:00:00 |
| Moor Mother | Real Trill Hours | Jazz Codes | Anti- | 0:04:05 |
| Joe Rainey | No Chants | Niineta | 37d03d | 0:06:06 |
| Amon Tobin | Escape | Permutations | Ninja Tune | 0:08:32 |
| Dengue Dengue Dengue | Banyuwangi | Zenit & Nadir | Enchufada | 0:14:57 |
| Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U Ahn-Sahm-Buhl | Universe is a Simulation | We Are Not the First | RVNG Intl | 0:20:47 |
| ONO | Scab | Red Summer | American Dreams | 0:24:33 |
| Leslie Winer & Jay Glass Dubs | Woodshedded | When I Hit You–You’ll Feel It | Light in the Attic | 0:26:58 |
| Waajeed | “My Comrades” (33 1/3) | The Patty Hearst Beat Tape | n/a | 0:31:58 |
| African Head Charge | Hole in the Roof | My Life in a Hole in the Ground | On-U Sound | 0:34:27 |
| Fuck Buttons | Sentients | Slow Focus | ATP | 0:37:25 |
| Amani & King Vision Ultra | A Not So Fruitful Wealth | An Unknown Infinite | n/a | 0:43:46 |
| Dälek vs. FaUst | Dead Lies | Derbe Respect, Alder | Staubgold | 0:47:37 |
| Exhaust | A History of Guerilla Warfare | Exhaust | Consellation | 0:56:18 |
| Fairhorns | Worried Thrumm | Doki Doki Run | Invada | 1:01:25 |
| Aa | Trash Hits | ZebrAa | Fire Talks | 1:08:25 |
| Fly Pan Am | Bleeding Decay | C’est ça | Constellation | 1:13:26 |
| This Heat | The Fall of Saigon | Made Available: John Peel Sessions | 1:18:55 | |
| Portishead | Small | Third | Mercury | 1:24:50 |
| Jerusalem in My Heart | Qala Li Kafa Kafa Kafa Kafa Kafa Kafa | If He Dies, If If If If If If If | Constellation | 1:28:06 |
| Bark Psychosis | Miss Abuse | Codename: Dustsucker | Fire | 1:33:06 |
| Anguish | DEW | Anguish | RareNoise | 1:39:05 |
| Efrim Manuel Menuck | Pissing Stars | Pissing Stars | Constellation | 1:41:37 |
| Ahleuchatistas | Power With | Arrebato | International Anthem | 1:47:28 |
| Tim Berne | Unknown Disaster | Fulton Street Maul | Columbia Records | 1:52:03 |
