The Black Artist Database With Oscar Atanga

For this week’s episode, we take a trip to Berlin for a really
lovely chat with Oscar Atanga, a crucial member of the Black
Artist Database team. They've been working hard to showcase a
wealth of talented musicians across the diaspora with their
growing community platform. Founded by east London DJ and
Percolate resident Niks in 2020, Black Artist Database, or B.A.D
for short, is a crowd-sourced database platform created as a
direct response to the global pandemic and as a way to challenge
the inequality that Black artists often face in the music
industry.


You can hop on the B.A.D website right now and search through
thousands of Black-owned labels, artists, and producers and
support them directly. The site also provides users with a chance
to connect with bustling creative communities of Black artists
around the globe. B.A.D’s community ethos extends to their
monthly workshops and forums dedicated to cultivating and
fostering Black talent, from production-focused workshops to
skill share sessions.


Now, the team has come up with exciting developments happening in
the world of web3 and they're looking to help Black artists use
the emerging technology as a way to build equity, ownership, and
community. 


Oscar chats about his creative background as a producer, his love
for some of the bustling black art communities in London and NYC,
and how the Black Artist Database is leveling the playing field
for Black creatives.





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