LINTD - Smooch Soundsystem [Live at The White Hotel]

Smooch Soundsystem is the opening act of LINTD’s three-part project, reclaiming Black Utopia through the technologies of sound.

Emerging from the collaborative force of Nigerian negro-gothic musician LINTD and Sheffield producer Porter Brook, this piece was recorded live at the White Hotel in December 2022.

Smooch Soundsystem celebrates the machines of a pro-Black utopia by centralising the Soundsystem as an extension of the human form, acting as the interface between flesh, technology, and community. Rooted in call and response, the performance centralises the Soundsystem as the mechanism of this symbiosis.

LINTD captures the innocence and tension of hope, as well as the struggle to reclaim one's existence in a world where rest is denied to Black bodies, even in death. By channelling Sun Ra’s call to be “endless, immeasurable, eternal, impossible,” LINTD invokes the power of speculative world-building to explore a Black utopia of immeasurable abundance.

“The first step in acknowledging the impossible dream: to create, preserve, and crystallise Black Utopia within our music, our art, our filmmaking, and our speculative world-building practice.”