Jersey Club Music Production as Black Techno-Sonic Wizardry

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter examines Jersey Club music through the production workflow of DJ-producer R3LL. His work demonstrates how producers reimagine sample-based club music as an extension of Black sonic traditions within the Internet-driven digital era, adapting it to the digital audio workstation-based, livestreamed, and platform-mediated environment of twenty-first-century production. The chapter argues that R3LL’s practices foreground Jersey Club as Black techno-sonic wizardry, a modality in which technological skill works alongside cultural labor, play, and ingenuity while negotiating mainstream visibility and sustaining local authenticity and sovereignty. Rather than casting wizardry as spontaneous and intuitive, and labor as meticulous and controlled, the chapter approaches them as mutually constitutive, a redefinition of virtuosity through Black relational epistemologies. Through textual analysis of R3LL’s livestreamed remix of Doja Cat’s “Juicy” featuring Tyga (2019), it examines his production techniques and the digital audio processes that render Jersey Club a site where technical and cultural practices converge. The analysis is complemented by ethnographic insights from private production lessons undertaken with R3LL in 2021. Drawing on musicology, media studies, and sound studies, the chapter illuminates Jersey Club’s compositional logics, technological negotiations, and cultural stakes. Black techno-sonic wizardry functions as a production practice and interpretive approach that calls for new ways of writing about electronic dance music that brings Black sonic labor into view as technical craft and cultural intelligence.
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Authors Jasmine A. Henry
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190093723.013.41
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190093723.013.41
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