Photo credit: Cristian Di Stefano
In celebration of Black History Month.
Carl Craig, in partnership with Beatport and Quincy Jones’ Qwest TV, has unveiled ‘All Black Digital’, a series of virtual conversations and performances in support of Bridges For Music.
During each week of February, Craig will host electronic music’s most revered thought leaders to the table for a series of discussions, as they touch on Afrofuturism with Professor, DJ, and composer King Britt and dig into the African-American origins of electronic music and subsequent white-washing of the genre with Make Techno Black Again’s DeForrest Brown Jr. Craig will also be celebrating the 30th-year anniversary of Planet E alongside DJ Minx and DJ Holographic.
The last installment of ‘All Black Digital’ will be recorded at South Africa’s living museum, Constitution Hill. This ‘Africa Special’ will explore how the rhythms of Africa permeated into Black Music in the Americas, specifically Techno and House music.
‘It’s a great honor to return to South Africa and to perform in the motherland of my ancestors. The music I have been making, producing, and performing for the past 30 years is an homage and continuation of what was born in Africa and runs through my blood here in Detroit.
I’m so happy to be a part of this event at Constitution Hill and to team up with Qwest TV and Beatport to broadcast. I’ve been a fan of Quincy Jones ever since I could read liner notes, and to bring attention to my brothers and sisters from SA and the good work Bridges For Music does is the icing on the cake’, says Craig about the journey behind ‘All Black Digital’.
The series will culminate with a livestream from Constitution Hill, the former prison and military fort that acted as the incarceration site for world-renowned men and women like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Joe Slovo, Albertina Sisulu, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and Fatima Meer. The performance will stream live across all Beatport platforms, in addition to Qwest TV, live and as video on-demand.
You can watch conversations and the final livestream on Beatport’s Twitch channel, here.
