Beefy''s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit)

Dean Blunt is the most important British artist of the current century because he fundamentally does not care about Britain. His importance makes it shocking that such little critical attention has been paid to his work. His indifference explains it. Dhanveer Singh Brars Beefys Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) looks to initiate a conversation that needs to be had about Dean Blunt, about Britain (through Blunts indifference to it), and about Blackness in Britain (through the depth and complexity of Blunts feeling for it). Using the 2016 album BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow as a means of navigation, Brar hears Blunt in order to access the long contested dream of Britains disappearance that was conducted under the name of Black British Arts. Partial (in the sense of his relation to Blunt) and partial (in the sense of unfinished), Beefys Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) sees Dhanveer Singh Brar give the dream a grammar, if not a name.

To encounter BBF Hosted by DJ Escrow through Dhanveer Brars ears is to see Babylon through his eyes, and to sense Britain to uncover with accuracy, brutality and beauty the complexities of its meaning through the social music, social vision and social feel of those who refuse the Britishness that is withheld from them. Brar discerns Dean Blunts rightful place in a cultural field where critical discourse and sonic dream are fundaments of a dub university curriculum whose various approaches show the absolute necessity and generativity of stealth, flaw and the resistance to category. Blunts love letter to the blackness of Hackney deserves the most rigorous, gentle, erudite attention. Happily, Dhanveer Brar is here to provide it. Fred Moten