7pm–3am
Decompress Fest Dec 7-10, 2023
MUSIC IS A BLACK TECHNOLOGY Music Thursday, December 7 7pm–1am D4BL HQ
JSPORT
NIKS
Kerry Burnett
Free Palestine Show
Music
Friday, December 8
10pm–4am
D4BL HQ
MOMAPS5
BIG MURK
MEDUSSAR
FAKE
GOLD PANDA
GUERRE MALADIE FAMINE
CLIMATE COLLAPSE
SGABE
SAM CLARKE
D4BL X NEVER NORML
Music
Saturday, December 9
3pm–3am
D4BL HQ
JODY SIMMS (PU$$YRAP)
LE POODLE
RUTH BUROTTE TV
AA RASHAD
KESSWA
MYSTIX
PURP
Khxos
COMMUNITY SHOW Music Sunday, December 10 3pm–9pm D4BL HQ
PHILIP
ANDES CONNECTION
D4BL X MASISI
Music
Sunday, December 10
10pm–2am
D4BL HQ
Racci
Tama Gucci
Jarrin McDowell
Opal Am Rah
Masisi Sirens
Dualitè
Crystallmess
Jordior
INTERNET FRIENDS Music Sunday, December 10 11pm–3am D4BL HQ
TT
RYKER
WINTER WRONG
Say it with us: The only good system is a sound system!
From Thursday, December 7 to Sunday, December 10, in Little Haiti, Miami, FL, Data for Black Lives will convene over 40 artists and the public for four days of art, performances, panels, and movement building as part of our first Decompress Fest.
Our Founder & CEO launched Decompress one year ago as an emergency response to the absence of spaces or places for people to find refuge from violence, both physical and psychological, happening on and offline. By celebrating the history and future of electronic music as Black protest music, we have reopened a universal portal for collective freedom.
Right now, two wars are happening - the apartheid state of Israel advancing genocide on the Palestinian people in historic proportions and the global ideological battle to finally unseat the settler colonial mindset that has become the algorithm for the systematic humiliation and dehumanization of downpressed people worldwide.
Our movement was designed for such a time as this, and in addition to shifting power through data & policy change, we are fostering spaces of genuine solidarity. Institutions, governments, and systems come and go. Still, relationships, especially those grounded in a shared vision for the future, are the foundation for the new world we know is possible.
Joy is our resistance. Our weapons are not physical but sonic, computational, epistemological, and spiritual. And our demands are simple: No more war! End the Occupation! End all downpressive systems and conditions! We stand with the Palestinian people and any Israeli civilians who refuse to be collateral damage in demanding a total ceasefire and an end to the occupation as a whole.
As activists, organizers, scientists, artists, and musicians, we are also people who know war intimately. Join us as we come together to chant down Babylon, a symbol in Rastafari of the contemporary exploitative economic and cultural system that recalls the historical regime under which the Jewish people were held captive.
This Miami Art Week, we unshackle art & culture from its current commodification to liberate each other and ourselves. This event is open to the public. Visit d4bl.org/decompress for tickets and the festival program.
DECOMPRESS presents Vanguards
DECOMPRESS presents Vanguards
We launched Decompress on Juneteenth with trailblazing voices in electronic music, such as Kenny Larkin, house music legend DJ Heather, Greg "Stryke" Chin, Godfather of the Miami electronic music scene, and Paperwater, pioneers of a new sound that has reached the globe and put Miami back on the m...
D4BL X NEVER NORML Performance
D4BL X NEVER NORML Performance
1M Realities is a interactive exhibition curated by global music producer Suzi Analogue, bringing an immersive experience into futurism and audio for Miami Art Week. The event celebrates a decade of creative exploration at Never Normal Records, offering guests interactive mixtape creation sessio...
DECOMPRESS Presents Vanguards
DECOMPRESS Presents Vanguards
Decompress Presents Vanguards: A lineup of Black Femme DJs, producers, and multi-disciplinary artists that reflect the vanguard of techno, house, ghetto tech, and bass, while also fusing emerging genres like drill and hyperpop. Tune in to this discussion between DJ Cutterfly, Le Camille, low i...
DECOMPRESS III
DECOMPRESS III
Get into this discussion on sampling, reparations, and fighting for recognition. Our Third Decompress event brought together performers Ezili Jean, Speaker Music (Defforest Brown), Suzi Analogue, and idealblackgirl (Amanda Williams) in a discussion moderated by Data for Black Lives Founder & CEO,...
LIBER8 MIA Decompress x Black Techno Matters
LIBER8 MIA Decompress x Black Techno Matters
We are excited to kick off our summer programming with our second annual Juneteenth celebration. This time we are teaming up with Black Techno Matters, bringing you a stellar lineup of performers. Special guests UNIIQU3, Devoye, Racci, Rubby Valentin, and BLVKSITE will bless our speakers. Join...
DECOMPRESS III
DECOMPRESS III
It is with great joy that we invite you to the third Decompress Miami event this Saturday, November 4, 2023. We are thrilled to feature artists and performers Ezili Jean, Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown), Suzi Analogue, and idealblackgirl (Amanda Williams). Doors open at 7 PM, panel conversation at 8 PM, and performances start at 10 PM. This event will be recorded. Register at the link below.
D4BL X NEVER NORML Interactive Mixtape
D4BL X NEVER NORML Interactive Mixtape
1M Realities is a interactive exhibition curated by global music producer Suzi Analogue, bringing an immersive experience into futurism and audio for Miami Art Week. The event celebrates a decade of creative exploration at Never Normal Records, offering guests interactive mixtape creation sessio...
DECOMPRESS Project Launch
DECOMPRESS Project Launch
After a year of building, we are excited to announce Decompress, a multi-disciplinary series and movement laboratory based out of our new, temporary HQ in Little Haiti, Miami, FL.
Music is a Black Technology II
Music is a Black Technology II
INTERNET FRIENDS
INTERNET FRIENDS
D4BL X MASISI
D4BL X MASISI
D4BL X NEVER NORML
D4BL X NEVER NORML
Free Palestine Show
Free Palestine Show
MUSIC IS A BLACK TECHNOLOGY
MUSIC IS A BLACK TECHNOLOGY
COMMUNITY SHOW
COMMUNITY SHOW
Music is a Black Technology Panel II
Music is a Black Technology Panel II
Free Palestine Show
Free Palestine Show
FREE PALESTINE
Music Is a Black Technology
Music Is a Black Technology
To commemorate Juneteenth and the launch of Decompress, we convened a powerful panel discussion featuring electronic music pioneers DJ Heather, Daygee Kwia, Eddy Andre Samy of Paperwater, and Greg Stryke Chin about the role of electronic music as a tool for social change. Moderated by Founder & C...
Yeshimabeit Milner | Data Activism at The Malcom X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial + Education Center
Yeshimabeit Milner | Data Activism at The Malcom X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial + Education Center
This keynote was delivered by our founder and CEO, Yeshimabeit Milner on Data Activism at The Malcom X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial + Education Center on February 23, 2024 at 5 PM. The event was hosted in partnership with the Barnard Department of Computer Science and Barnard Library. London-...
Data Activism + Decompress
Data Activism + Decompress
This keynote was delivered by our founder and CEO, Yeshimabeit Milner on Data Activism at The Malcom X and Dr Betty Shabazz Memorial + Education Center on February 23, 2024 at 5 PM. The event was hosted in partnership with the Barnard Department of Computer Science and Barnard Library. London-...