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LP
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DE 399LP
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$25.00
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 9/18/2026
"Wet is the fifth full length album by Black Meteoric Star and the tenth release. Black Meteoric Star is a project Rayna started in 2006 when she was living in Berlin that brought together her life-long love of dance music culture with spiritual themes, drag, and her formative experiences of S/M culture. Black Meteoric Star has always had an avenger quality in Rayna's life and creative work, and this iteration plays that role in response to the current political landscape. Wet celebrates the long-standing shared history of electronic music and queer leather/SM culture and imagines a future where these two cultural expressions are re-connected. Electronic music and leather/SM are both ways that queer people have historically built community, created and shared knowledge, and kept each other safe. The current administration demonizes and villainizes queer people on the basis of a false moral framework of respectability, and it's a trick. Revitalizing the connection between electronic music and queer leather/SM is a way to affirm the cultural power of both during a time when it has never been clearer that people keep each other safe. Rayna, a transgender woman with a deep commitment to all of these cultural forms, has a strong message to deliver with this album. She has been a DJ and producer of electronic music for over thirty years and has been producing community cultural events for as long. She has also been involved in kink and BDSM for decades and is a well-known and respected DJ in the New York leatherdyke scene. Rayna made international headlines in 2017 when she came out as transgender while touring with LCD Soundsystem. In 2018 she left the Grammy-winning band to pursue projects that were more connected with her queer experience, including founding Voluminous Arts, a cultural organization that supports trans artists. Black Meteoric Star is a continuation of a thread in Rayna's work that runs through her Paper Eyes project and her role in Black Leotard Front. This thread has a comic book or X-rated graphic novel component based around her experiences of being a sad lonely lesbian trans girl who was bullied a lot and found escape and the possibility of being avenged through X-Men comics and Dungeons and Dragons books."
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MODERN 011EP
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No More White Presidents is an experimental film directed and soundtracked by Gavin Russom (LCD Soundsystem, DFA). This 12" contains three choice excerpts. At the start of 2017, Russom came out as a trans-woman and her transition is one of the themes explored in NMWP, as well as broader topics such as capitalism and death. "Stealth Technology" features jarring oscillating synths, angular beats, and waves of acid. "Three Trains" is a short track where tape hiss drifts over a tough rhythmic section. "Coffin Maker" finishes the release with punishing beats, oscillating acidic synth lines, and a growling bass.
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