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An album influenced by “Detroit, Chicago, techno, house, French electronic” and other “iterations of nightlife” is in the works, he tells W’s Diane Solway, though there’s no news on a release date. Asked whether the record would be released independently, he said, “I’ve been independent since 2016. So I plan on keeping it that way for a while. I’ve got amazing credit, so if I need a loan, I’ll go to a bank.”
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P4K kinda took what he said out of context. He just said he has been listening to a lot of Chicago house/Detroit techno. He never said anything about making an electronic album
Not funded by Gilead Sciences Funded by Blonded, independently Let’s just get that out of the way. Club culture around late 70s and 80s nightlife in NYC was a special, much talked about and written about thing. From the star studded midtown clubs like studio 54 and the first danceteria to the downtown clubs like Mudd + paradise garage. The figures, the music, the looks, the lack of regulation haha. I recognize NY wasn’t all lasers and disco lighting and that simultaneously, there was a lot of crime and poverty and that a huge part of club culture, the gay community, at that time were being wiped out by HIV + AIDS. Now in 2019, there’s a pill you can take every day that will at a better than 90% chance prevent you from contracting HIV. This pill was approved by the FDA in 2012. The pricing strategy behind it is malicious in my opinion and so it’s public perception is marred and rightfully so. But the fact remains that despite price being a very real barrier to this potentially life saving drug for some, the other very real barrier is awareness. I decided to name, what was otherwise going to be a night of lights and music inspired by an era of clubbing that I loved PrEP+ because while designing the club which is inside of an old glass factory basement in Queens (shoutout to The Basement that runs a very awesome techno night on Fridays after us) I started to imagine in an era where so many lives were lost and so much promise was lost forever along with them, what would it have been like if something, anything had existed that in all probability would’ve saved thousands and thousands of lives. I’m an artist, it’s core to my job to imagine realities that don’t necessarily exist and it’s a joy to. A couple days before we threw the party, I was discussing this subject with my team and one of the architects I work with thought that PrEP as a drug had reached ‘100% saturation’ so far as awareness. I thought he was dead wrong so I asked a friend (who I won’t name haha) if he knew what PrEP was and his response was ‘isn’t that some type of viagra or something’. My ex who I was with for several years didn’t know about it when we first met at a gay club in LA. Awareness isn’t always what we’d hope it would be. But anyway, I’m ranting. I’m happy that folks are talking about the subject in the first place. Thank you to everyone who came out and danced with us last night. Y’all were beautiful and the energy was right! Thank you Bouffant Bouffant, Sango, Justice and Sherelle for your sets last night they were soo good man. Oh one more thing, I saw someone say that this was a PR stunt etc etc, pshhh bitch pls come get a drink next time and I’ll put several barstools out so you can have as many seats as you need. All my love everybody really. Stay safe.
This is more generous than most of the other commentary on this event. I like frank but he deserves pretty much all of the criticism he is getting for this.
Can people do anything anymore? I guess the joke's on all the critics because the more they judge him the more educated people become about PrEP+
The RA review touches more on how the event failed to properly replicate or pay homage to the NY gay club scene of yesteryear. Based on what I've read, seen and heard, this critique seems fair. But I didn't go, so I can't directly attest. If he does more of these, I hope he gets some DJs who could really embody that throwback spirit (Roi Perez, Horse Meat Disco, Honey Soundsystem, Physical Therapy, any number of gay or even bi/straight/etc. female DJs).