In their piece, "Do You Remember When We Just Lived?," McKenzie challenged the idea of techno as a conduit for fantasy and the club as a sanctuary where grim realities abate and dissolve. Throughout their two-decade career, the electronic music producer and artist has broadcasted the urgency of a deteriorating political climate for Black people, the LGBTQ community and immigrants in the U.S. Their seductive, breakneck techno bursts at the seams with intensity and emotion, a heaviness derived from jazz and nu-metal influences. A compelling theme intercepts these formative genres: rage alchemy. Through these different strains of resistance music, the anger, frustration and internal chaos of oppressed peoples become profoundly moving art.
In this live performance, the Jamaica-born and New York-based artist asks, what if, instead of fleeing from the vitriol witnessed in our everyday lives, we sought to develop new languages to understand it through rage music? This bespoke performance for National Sawdust features new work entwined with alternate versions of highlights from the TYGAPAW catalog, with a particular focus on breakthrough records Get Free and Handle With Care. In the second half of the evening, the musician will join Resident Advisor music critic Kiana Mickles for a conversation centering the evolution of their practice and the white cooptation of rage technologies in dance music and beyond.
/// Schedule
6:30pm: Doors open for talk
7:00pm: Talk starts
7:30pm: Intermission; Doors open for the performance.
8:30pm: Performance Starts
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