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diff --git a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md index a2f89f5..2888c43 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md @@ -1,18 +1,17 @@ --- title: "Tastes over activism" -slug: tastes-over-activism pubDate: 2022-03-01T17:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:39:51.000Z draft: false excerpt: "SLIST books DJs for one reason: their taste. Not their follower count. Not their gender. Not their politics. Not the flag they wave or the cause they post about. Their … Read more" categories: - - { name: Values, slug: values } + - Values tags: - - { name: curation, slug: curation } - - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } - - { name: identity, slug: identity } - - { name: politics, slug: politics } - - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } + - curation + - format-opinion + - identity + - politics + - tone-confrontational featured: src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/tastes-over-activism/cover.png alt: "Close-up of DJ mixer controls in dramatic dark lighting representing pure musical curation"content: rewrite image URLs from slist.net/wp-content to cdn.slist.net/posts/<slug>/
diff --git a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md index 457ab19..a2f89f5 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags: - { name: politics, slug: politics } - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } featured: - src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d26821a22ce7.84004015.png + src: https://cdn.slist.net/posts/tastes-over-activism/cover.png alt: "Close-up of DJ mixer controls in dramatic dark lighting representing pure musical curation" legacy_wp_id: 15893 ---fix(web): point upload URLs at slist.net (cdn.slist.net not wired up yet)
diff --git a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md index 1e3436c..457ab19 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags: - { name: politics, slug: politics } - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } featured: - src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d26821a22ce7.84004015.png + src: https://slist.net/wp-content/uploads/ai_69d26821a22ce7.84004015.png alt: "Close-up of DJ mixer controls in dramatic dark lighting representing pure musical curation" legacy_wp_id: 15893 ---feat(web): visually mirror slist.net blog (index + single post)
diff --git a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md index 2ef0828..1e3436c 100644 --- a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md @@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ slug: tastes-over-activism pubDate: 2022-03-01T17:00:00.000Z updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:39:51.000Z draft: false +excerpt: "SLIST books DJs for one reason: their taste. Not their follower count. Not their gender. Not their politics. Not the flag they wave or the cause they post about. Their … Read more" +categories: + - { name: Values, slug: values } +tags: + - { name: curation, slug: curation } + - { name: format-opinion, slug: format-opinion } + - { name: identity, slug: identity } + - { name: politics, slug: politics } + - { name: tone-confrontational, slug: tone-confrontational } +featured: + src: https://cdn.slist.net/ai_69d26821a22ce7.84004015.png + alt: "Close-up of DJ mixer controls in dramatic dark lighting representing pure musical curation" legacy_wp_id: 15893 --- SLIST books DJs for one reason: their taste. Not their follower count. Not their gender. Not their politics. Not the flag they wave or the cause they post about. Their taste. The sounds they select when nobody is watching, the sets they build when the crowd can handle it, the music they would play if every social consequence was removed from the equation.feat(web): full posts+pages sync, browseable UI, curated pages allowlist
diff --git a/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ef0828 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/2022/tastes-over-activism/index.md @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +--- +title: "Tastes over activism" +slug: tastes-over-activism +pubDate: 2022-03-01T17:00:00.000Z +updatedDate: 2026-04-05T14:39:51.000Z +draft: false +legacy_wp_id: 15893 +--- +SLIST books DJs for one reason: their taste. Not their follower count. Not their gender. Not their politics. Not the flag they wave or the cause they post about. Their taste. The sounds they select when nobody is watching, the sets they build when the crowd can handle it, the music they would play if every social consequence was removed from the equation. + +This is the founding curation mandate, stated as plainly as it will ever be stated: extract the darkest shit from people that they normally do not play elsewhere. That is what SLIST books for. Everything else is secondary. + +* * * + +The pressure to book based on external factors is constant. There is always someone in the DMs asking why the lineup does not represent a particular identity group. There is always a post suggesting that a responsible collective would prioritize visibility over sound. The implication is that booking purely on musical merit is itself a political act — and not a good one. + +We reject that framing entirely. You cannot claim to care only about the music and then give preference to anything other than the music. Those two positions are mutually exclusive. The moment you add a filter that is not sonic, you have admitted that the music is not actually the priority. And if the music is not the priority at a music event, what exactly are we doing here. + +The lineups speak for themselves. SLIST has booked artists across every gender, nationality, and background — not because we track those metrics, but because dark music does not care who is playing it. The curation is mood, not identity. Dark vibes, sad emotions, stuff that causes contemplation or catharsis. Everything from ambient to industrial hardcore trance. If you bring that energy, you are on the list. If you do not, all the activist credentials in the world will not get you a slot. + +* * * + +There is a specific booking decision that illustrates this. An all-female lineup came together organically once — every artist selected on sound alone, and it happened that they were all women. The position was clear: if it happens naturally, it happens. But it would never be advertised as an all-female lineup. That is too commercial. Borderline marketing tokenism dressed up as progress. The artists deserve to be booked because they are sonically devastating, not because their gender makes a good Instagram caption. +Diff truncated (40 lines total). View full commit on GitHub →
