The Rythmn of Resilience: A Juneteenth Celebration of Black Electronic Music

The Rhythm of Resilience returns to Monarch for a night of Black techno — tracing the full arc of a genre born in Detroit warehouses, built by young Black men with borrowed machines and borrowed time. The Rhythm of Resilience: The Souls of Machines is a Juneteenth-adjacent celebration of the Black origins of electronic music. Techno was not discovered. It was invented — by Juan Atkins, Derrick May, and Kevin Saunderson, and by the communities they came from. That lineage runs directly to the artists on this bill. One room. Three DJs. All Black. All techno. 808s, 909s, and the mechanical precision that was always, underneath, an act of survival and invention. Produced by Acknowledgments — a San Francisco cultural production company dedicated to reclaiming the Black origins of electronic music.