DJ Lynnée Denise (LA, Amsterdam, South Africa )

I am happy to announce the relaunching of my radio show and its new title, The Black Atlantic/Black Fantastic, on 1BTN every second Sunday from 4-6 pm (UK) and 11-1 (EST). Starts today! Shout ou...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2022-04-11T06_00_00-07_00

South Africa is one of my musical mothers. I discovered this nearly twenty years ago when I stepped on the continent for the first time and landed near the Indian Ocean in the city of Durban. By ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2020-09-10T06_23_01-07_00

I woke up in Paris this morning reflective and excited about how I found my way here. I’m in Paris because I’m a DJ and because I fell in love with house music enough to ask questions about i...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2016-05-30T09_38_07-07_00

In 1985 Loose Ends performed on Soul Train and just like all other performers who graced the stage, Don Cornelius strolled up with a mic and a series of music journalistic questions. When guitari...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2015-06-04T09_30_37-07_00

An unreleased mix recorded in Berlin in 2015. In a sentence I would describe it as Diasporic Quiet Storm music. A lover once called me emotionally rigorous and when we broke up, these songs came ...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2015-04-04T15_24_33-07_00

This mix is for Black women who love Björk Guðmundsdóttir. For some of us Björk is one of the guiding forces in the most secret parts of our emotional lives. And there is something to be said...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2015-02-20T09_44_57-08_00

A mix celebrating the last year in my 30s, please accept the answers to the deepest of questions. Track List: Nobody Else But You But You Dance Be Enough (feat. Shea Soul) Opolopo I Want U (...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2014-11-27T10_22_11-08_00

Sun Ra would have been 100 years old today and I'm in London preparing to present the soundtrack of my own brand of AfroFuturism. Please enjoy the second and final installment of the "Hibernation...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2014-05-22T09_54_25-07_00

I wrote this during layovers between Toronto and London, on my way to Amsterdam for the summer. Before I start my next voyage, I wanted to offer my musical reflections on South Africa. Three days...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2014-04-30T07_58_05-07_00

“Your heart has to be ready to handle the weight of your calling,” is what she said casually over Korean BBQ, and for this reason and more I grew up reading bell hooks. ‘Sisters of the Yam:...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2014-04-20T10_38_19-07_00

I started compiling music for “Dark Black Girls” in Atlanta, early 2012. I wasn’t quite sure of what direction the music would head in after deciding on the first song, “When I Grow Up”...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2014-02-14T12_48_21-08_00

I never intended to release this mix. I considered it to be unfinished, in need of a polishing. Today, I heard it and it allowed me the space to breathe, to remember, to let go, so in that sense,...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2013-07-14T09_15_11-07_00

The Love Space Demands, is a choreopoem published in 1991, by Ntozake Shange. In it she returned to the blend of music, dance, poetry and drama that characterized For Colored Girls Who Have Consi...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2013-02-14T07_16_22-08_00

"The School of Badu" is a mix (compilation) inspired by one of the sexiest encounters I've had to date. Amazing what a deep soul connection with another human being can do to and for an artist. T...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2012-12-12T09_59_10-08_00

I moved to Atlanta from Brooklyn in March 2011 as a part of a Great (Re) verse Migration. Since being here I've been inspired by the calm of the breeze, the soul of the people and the movement on...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2012-07-06T12_48_59-07_00

The moment I finished this mix, I put my headphones on and danced...to the entire thing. South Africa moves me. There cannot be a separation between the music, the history and the people. L...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2012-03-08T15_54_13-08_00

The second scholar provides Haiku poetry inspired by Episode 2 "Mighty Real: The Sound of Tomorrow. This is none other than the author, poet, activist, lover, freedom fighter, professor, emcee, f...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2011-09-03T08_00_16-07_00

WildSeed Music NYC is proud to present its first ever double mixed cd, High Holy Days: The History and Future of House Music. Episode 1 ”“The Children of Baldwin,” explores several period...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2011-09-03T05_02_57-07_00

Liner notes for this mix are brought to you by my brother and friend Asadullah Saed Muhammad. His words speak truth to heart. Authenticity meets history for a future of honesty and peace. I want...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2011-06-03T11_19_29-07_00

Drum and Bass is Black Music… On the 30th anniversary of the 1981 Brixton riots, a historic reaction to the hostility and xenophobic environment that informed the policing of African and Carib...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2011-05-07T17_20_44-07_00

Journey with me on this "emotional migration" and expand in your freedom. This heartbreakingly sexy mix was inspired by my physical transformation and geographical relocation 2010-2011. "God is C...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2011-04-14T14_45_50-07_00

A collage of deep house rhythms and seamless blends! These house musical selections represent the full spectrum of sub genre interests that dj lynnee denise developed with her ear to the New York...

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/djlynneedenise/episodes/2009-05-07T04_19_51-07_00