🎧🎙#ArtIsAWeapon 👑 @djminxwomenonwax & @ash_lauryn_ @undergroundandblack @resident_advisor 💜 Reposted from @ash_lauryn_ I recently had a lovely chat with Detroit’s @djminxwomenonwax for the U&B x RA Exchange! A true trailblazer for women in the DJ industry. We talked everything from her early days on the decks to starting her collective and label Women On Wax. I have so much respect for this woman and it was a pleasure to learn more of her story. Link in bio for an hour of history, laughs, and straight talk! 🌹 #DJMinx #WomenOnWax #WomenDJs #BlackWomenDJs #DJs #DetroitLegend #TechnoIsBlackMusic #DetroitTechno #AshLauryn #TraScapades #MusicIsLife #BlackAugust https://www.instagram.com/p/CD7PQpagnzw/?igshid=2hj4ox5ehp8e

🖤🎶👏🏿#ArtIsAWeapon #DJ/#Writer/#Creative @ash_lauryn_ > "House and techno music were birthed in the Black community, and have always been political. Let us not forget or steer away from those roots, especially when Black people are actively being killed and brutalized by law enforcement at an alarming rate. Let’s also not make this out to be just an America problem, when systemic racism affects minorities and Black people just about all over the world. It’s apparent that things are far from perfect in the US, but there is work to be done everywhere — no one is exempt. The first step to solving these ugly issues? Be willing to acknowledge them and to be accountable if necessary. Study up, research, read, talk to your Black friends; do you have any Black friends? As uncomfortable and unexciting discussions about race may be, it’s been the elephant in the room for far too long, and the time is now. The revolution is now. We are living in a modern-day civil rights movement, and I don’t know about you, but I feel a calling and sense of duty to be a part of it." Read in full: www.beatportal.com/features/a-letter-from-the-editor-ash-lauryn/ _______________________ Reposted from @ash_lauryn_ Honored and excited to hold the position of Guest Editor for #Beatportal this month! This position put me in charge of commissioning black writers, selecting the cover story artist, the label of the month, introducing artist, and more. We’ll also be featuring an investigative piece, a joint interview, and my “Letter from the Editor” piece that was published today. Although this role is only during August, it’s important to me to continue pushing the culture forward and celebrating what I’m most passionate about. It is my hope that the amplification of black artists in electronic music continues once my role is completed. Love and many thanks to @beatport for this opportunity- can’t wait to share more with you all! Link in bio to read my thoughts on this role and what it means to be a black creative living amid a modern-day civil rights movement. #undergroundandblack ❤️🖤💚 photo: @africanlurker #AshLauryn #HouseMusic #Techno #TraScapades #MusicIsLife #BlackMusic https://www.instagram.com/p/CDgu9oGAVoR/?igshid=17tvqvv0wdztu