It's against this backdrop that Amobi's remix sounds out. It was released through a new collective, NON Records, which is dedicated to artists from Africa and of the African diaspora. They're not the only element in recent underground music to consciously focus on African, Afrodiasporic, and/or African-American artists and the issues facing them—an upcoming compilation on Mykki Blanco’s new label Dogfood Music Group, and Philadelphia art and sound duo SCRAAATCH do so as well, in different ways. As a white writer, I can’t speak from experience about how each of these artist's music expresses that subjectivity (if indeed that's what the many musicians and listeners involved, each of them in their different ways, regard it as doing at all). But it's abundantly clear that African and Afrodiasporic musicians are behind huge swathes of inventiveness in both underground music and music as a whole, disproportionately so in terms of demographics, and their role is regularly underestimated in music histories and journalistic coverage.

It's no wonder that African and Afrodiasporic artists are choosing to disseminate music in solidarity. In many cases, this creative decision is a strategy for dealing with the alienation that is so often a part of Afrodiasporic experience. As the London-based writer Kodwo Eshun puts it in his 2003 essay Further Considerations on Afrofuturism: “the condition of alienation, understood in its most general sense, is a psychosocial inevitability that all Afrodiasporic art uses to its own advantage by creating contexts that encourage a process of disalienation.” And yet in the continuing environment of white supremacy, this creativity is routinely either erased, appropriated, or confined to narrow and fetishized aesthetic areas. The music in this article—which is all linked by the multifarious connective tissues of underground culture (labels, releases, mixes, remixes, songs etc)—is not necessarily of the same belief or aesthetic, but can all be seen as resisting the supremacist paradigm in its many different ways and contexts. Often, it can be seen as exploring the way in which race intersects with gender, sexuality and/or queerness too.