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PREMIERE: Beaner - Got Blues? [La Mission]

655 views · Published 17 April 2016 · 7:45 · Indexed 6 November 2026

Channel: Ransom Note · 2016 · Music

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Co-opted & Exoticized is Beaner's first solo outing on Berlin's La Mission, and an important one at that. The whole release is an exploration of "im/migration, the brown experience, and stripped identity" - along with the vinyl, the meticulously arranged package comes with a magazine and other extras, including an immigration card. Dance music has certainly never been immune from an unhealthy does of cultural appropriation, and here the La Mission crew - self-described "brown folks with stripped and fragmented identities" - seek to bring that to light.

Beaner's 'Got Blues?' grapples with the idea of using a forgotten artist for one's gain. The bizarro, disorienting rhythm is sourced from the work of a blind 1930s blues bongo player - not something we can ever claim to have come across in a press release before! Coarsing through the groovy track, choppy hurricane synths and deep, serpentine bass pave the way for fleeting piano explorations. A banger alright, with or without the accompanying framework. Get caught up in this one.

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