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Alexander Fleming debuted as Black Atlass in 2013 with "Paris," a single that hinted at his range by featuring an acoustic piano version along with the original electronic mix. He appeared on Action Bronson's Top Ten album "Mr. Wonderful" in 2015 and issued his first full length, "Haunted Paradise" in 2016. Fleming signed with The Weeknd's XO Records in 2018. That year, he appeared on the "Fifty Shades Freed" soundtrack with his and Jessie Reyez's "Sacrifice," a song that quickly racked up tens of millions of streams. In 2018 he also released his first studio album "Pain & Pleasure" which was nominated for R&B/Soul Recording Of The Year at the 2019 Juno Awards. 2020 saw the release of his second studio album "Dream Awake." In 2022 Fleming released his latest album "Infinite" under his own label Black Atlass Inc.

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I’ll meet you there - (ep) released march 8, 2024 - black atlass inc..

When The Darkness Fades - (EP) Released October 6, 2023 - Black Atlass Inc.

The sister EP to ‘I’ll Meet You There’ the latest EP from Black Atlass.

Infinite - (Album) Released November 11, 2022 - Black Atlass Inc.

Black Atlass’ third studio album. Including the hit singles ‘Beautiful Stranger’ and ‘Intoxicated’ which have quickly racked up millions of streams.

Dream Awake - (Album) Released April 3, 2020 - XO/Republic Records.

Black Atlass’ second studio album. Including hit singles such as ‘Show Me’, ‘Night After Night’, ‘Close Your Eyes’, ‘Lie To Me’ and ‘By My Side’.

Pain & Pleasure - (Album) Released July 18, 2018 - XO/Republic Records.

Black Atlass’ first studio album. Including his major label debut singles ‘My Life’ and ‘Pain & Pleasure’ as well as crowd favourite ‘Fantasy’.

Genesis - (Compilation Album) Released September 16, 2022 - Black Atlass Inc.

A compilation of Black Atlass’ early work from 2013-2016 including his debut single ‘Paris’ which launched his career as a frequent collaborator with luxury fashion brands.

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Black Atlass arrived on to the Techno / Electronic scene with the release of tour album "Young Bloods", released on N/A. The song instantly became a success and made Black Atlass one of the newest great shows to witness. Following the debut of "Young Bloods", Black Atlass announced "Paris" on N/A. The album "Paris" is still one of the more admired tour albums from Black Atlass. The Tour Albums three top singles included , , and and are a crowd favorite at every show. Black Atlass has published 7 more tour albums since "Paris". After 0 years of albums, Black Atlass top tour album has been "Young Bloods" and some of the best concert songs have been , , and .

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Black Atlass: Dream Awake

• Never Enough
• Do For Love
• Night After Night
• On Your Mind
• Close Your Eyes

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• Something Real
• Pain And Pleasure
• Kinda Like It
• If Only They Knew

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• Young Bloods
• Burning Man

Black Atlass: Haunted Paradise

• Permanent Smile
• Nothing Else
• Glow in the Dark
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• Summer Time
• Return to Love
• Haunted Paradise

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• Paris - Acoustic

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Montreal’s Black Atlass is a voice you can’t forget, charting new territory somewhere in- between modern R&B, experimental electronic production, and classic singer/songwriter confessionals.

His debut single “Paris” was praised by music obsessives and high-end fashionistas alike, earning praise in Vogue and scoring Louis Vuitton ads while garnering the personal attention of everyone from Woodkid (who enlisted Black Atlass to open dates on his European tour) to Dior Homme (who invited BA to their Paris Fashion Week presentations and styled him for the front row).

Beyond these blog props and style bonafides, however, there’s substance in his music that sets Black Atlass apart from his contemporaries. It pulses all throughout the new Young Bloods EP, six tracks that more than live up to their title with knotty chords, unexpectedly muscular beats, and the ethereal vocals that tie it all together. From “Blossom’s” handclap funk and the D’Angelo worthy boom bap of “Free Angel” to the primal howl of distorted closer “Jewels,” Young Bloods is the latest chapter in the story of a raw and electrifying new talent.

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• I'll Meet You There - EP
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Born Alex Fleming, Black Atlass began playing piano at age seven but considered music a hobby when he was growing up. ∙ After seeing Black Atlass’ first-ever gig in Montreal, Chromeo’s P-Thugg tipped off his label, Fool’s Gold, which quickly signed Fleming. ∙ His first single, “Paris,” was used to score commercials for a variety of luxury fashion brands. ∙ In addition to his music career, Fleming also works as a fashion model. ∙ In 2017 Black Atlass appeared in the video for The Weeknd’s single “Secrets” and signed with his XO label the following year. ∙ “Sacrifice,” his collaboration with Jessie Reyez, appeared on the 2018 soundtrack for the film Fifty Shades Freed. ∙ Black Atlass’ 2018 EP, Pain & Pleasure, was nominated for a Juno Award for Best R&B/Soul Recording of the Year.

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Black Atlass Shows Us How to Write a Song | Check the Technique

XO Records' latest signee gives us a step-by-step tutorial on writing a bona fide hit in the first episode of Complex Canada's Check the Technique.

Black Atlass was planning to spend all summer touring Europe with The Weeknd, but COVID-19 had a slightly different agenda. Forced into semi-permanent lockdown like the rest of us during this global pandemic, XO Records’ latest signee has had no choice but to shelve most of the promo schedule for Dream Awake , his excellent third LP, which dropped in early April. So how’s the R&B visionary been coping with this unexpected wrench in his career trajectory? Well, in the most productive way possible: by penning his next album.

In the first episode of Complex Canada’s Check the Technique, Black Atlass teaches you the fine art of writing a song from the comfort of your own home. It’s something he’s been doing a lot of lately, after all. Who needs a professional studio? You can write the next feel-good hit of the summer with a pen, a guitar, and a latte. Watch the episode above, then check out our chat with Black Atlass below on what he’s been up to during isolation.

How has quarantine life been treating you?

Fortunately, well. I feel lucky to be able to stay productive during this time and have my health and be safe, and have my loved ones be safe and healthy. I know there's a lot of people out there who aren't able to have that same opportunity and are really struggling, so I really feel for them.

What specifically have you been working on?

I'm starting to work on my next album. I’m just getting together a bunch of new music; really using this downtime to focus creatively on my process and on writing and coming up with the concept for the next project and the next visuals and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, it's been really useful for that. I feel like I have the whole next vision sort of mapped out for everything. [I’ve been] writing on my guitar and just FaceTiming with my producer, going back and forth on ideas and getting references from other producers. That’s been helping move things along a lot faster.

Are there any new hobbies or routines you've picked up during isolation? I guess cutting your own hair is one…

Yeah, that's true, actually. [ Laughs .] I did buy a set of clippers, so I feel like that's something I want to get really good at. And I did want to get into cooking more. I’ve started a little bit, but I need to keep up with that. I've been trying to perfect the classic pan-fried steak sort of thing. I want to do a couple more stew-like dishes, using the Crousset.

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It can be pretty challenging to stay healthy while quarantining. How’ve you managed to lead a healthy, functional lifestyle at home?

Well, everyone has a lot of time right now to reflect and to think and to slow things down. I think with everything slowing down and everything being on pause for a minute, it’s a good time where you can take advantage of having those moments of thought and self-reflection. [You can] calm things down, work through ideas, work through thoughts and feelings, and then come out on the other side of it stronger. I think you can try and focus your energy on working through things in a positive way and just addressing them mentally, which you might not normally have had the chance to, you know, with everyone always caught up with so much in their daily lives. In a time like right now, where we’re just at home and there's not a lot going on, it can be really useful to do that. That's what I've been doing, and it’s what's been really inspiring my next work, too. Just having those moments of self-reflection and introspection has given me a lot to work from.

Obviously you can't go about your career as you normally would right now. How have you been keeping your skills sharp at home?

Just staying productive, trying to set some time aside every day to focus on working on music, whether that's just sitting down, brainstorming, collecting references and listening to stuff to get inspired or actually doing some writing. I’m just really, really hungry to keep working, especially coming off the back of Dream Awake . I really want to just keep that momentum going and not fall out of the creative process. So I'm trying to just do a little bit of something every day. I think it is nice to have a lot of free time where you know the rest of the world has stopped. You don't feel that, I guess, social pressure [when] you take it a bit more time to do something or you wanna have some time just to think. I feel like that's really given me a break to kind of just relax more and let the creative process flow a bit more freely. If this weren't happening, it would be harder to continue the process of working on music because I'd have to fit that into the rest of my schedule and rehearsing for a tour.

What have you been watching and listening to during isolation?

Just from being at home with my parents, I’ve been feeling really nostalgic for the stuff I listened to in high school. I’m going back to all the kind of 2010's indie, Tumblr-era stuff, like all the early Lana Del Rey and Little Dragon records. Fleet Foxes, MGMT, LCD Soundsystem. But actually, I've been really excited about the 1975's new album—all the new singles they've been dropping have been insane. So I've been listening to them like every single day.

And I’ve been watching the Jordan documentary. That series was real cool. Really inspiring. I'm not a huge sports fan, but I love just learning about other people's processes and their career and where it took them. Just his dedication to the game and to his vision for the player that he wanted to be. It’s really inspiring to anyone in any field just to learn how to really excel and focus and harness that energy and that vision that you have.

What's the first thing you're gonna do once the pandemic is over?

Hmm. I want to travel to Tokyo, I think. I want to just do, like, the ultimate traveling. Just go as far away as possible and see something completely new, and be somewhere I've never been before. But I've also been really missing L.A. and the West Coast and the warm weather. So I want to get back there too.

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Remembering Black Dallas revives forgotten history with new bus tours

All around Dallas are markers telling the rich Black history that shaped the city: White Rock Chapel, the Pittman Hotel, Keller Springs Road.

But words don’t travel as fast as you think, and some stories are forgotten.

That’s why the historical organization Remembering Black Dallas created a new series of tours — funded partially through a grant from the city's Office of Arts and Culture — highlighting these and other areas in modern-day Dallas County that were once hubs for the Black community.

“Our main focus is to draw light on the history and of the African American freedom towns, communities and those individuals that others may not know anything about,” said Deborah Hopes, the president of Remembering Black Dallas.

Hopes, a South Dallas native, named the venture the Ukunika Bus and Walking Tour after the Zulu word meaning “to give back.” The monthly tours were an idea first put forward by RBD founder George Keaton, and it was one Hopes wanted to keep alive. They both had the benefit of living through some of that history or were taught stories of a time before them.

“We have others that are from that community, or they had grandparents or relatives that lived in those communities that shared stories,” Hopes said.

She said RBD didn’t start the tours out of fear of forgetting the community’s history, but rather as a chance to relive old memories. She believes this is the first step to recognizing Black history while her peers are still around to educate others.

“History in itself doesn't change. History in itself remains the same,” she said. “But if you don't know it, then you are not privy to it.”

Unforgettable history

The first of the Ukunika bus tours took attendees around South Dallas, focusing on women’s history and how the civil rights movement affected the area. It highlighted American activists like Julia C. Frazier, Pearl C. Anderson and Juanita J. Craft, whose house — which hosted Martin Luther King. Jr and Lyndon B. Johnson — was among the stops.

“I think Dallas can be a very ahistoric place,” said Phaedra Gwyn, who grew up in the city but said she had no idea the cultural significance the neighborhood carried. “I was really happy to learn more about the civil rights movement in Dallas and Black people's contributions.”

Another attendee, Courtney Simmons, was raised in Dallas and attended Lincoln High School. She brought her daughters on the tour so they could see how her neighborhood has changed, and how it’s preserved its culture.

“The infiltration of the city and how it just kind of [reduced] the Black community down and how it got a little disenfranchised, but there's still efforts going on today to keep those visions alive,” Simmons said.

Others grew up in the city and had no idea of the cultural significance these neighborhoods carried.

Another tour covered the area known today as North Dallas, which was established as a Freedmen’s Town in the Reconstruction period after the Civil War.

The area associated with North Park, the Galleria and the former Valley View Mall was once home to Dallas’s oldest and most prominent Black landowners, including Anderson Bonner, Henry Keller and George Coit.

“I traveled up and down Coit Road and didn't realize it was named after a Black person,” said RBD member Karl Lewis. “And I doubt very few people realize that.”

Passengers got a chance to meet several notable Dallas natives who have seen the city change firsthand.

Patricia Price Hicks, who is on the Dallas County Historical Commission, shared her experience growing up in Hamilton Park, an area named after prominent landowner Richard Theodore Hamilton.

“This was unheard of because there was no Black community per se,” Hicks said.

The group explored the hidden White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories, where they were met by Glen Bonner — one of Anderson’s descendants.

“This was the first known interracial cemetery in North Dallas, North Texas area, actually,” Bonner said.

Hearing about forgotten history brought up a lot of emotions for some attendees. Sicily Whetstone is a grad student who attended the tour for a school project. She said she sees the tour as a form of reparations for Black Dallas that also educates the public.

“Those people have [been] lost in history,” she said. “So, I'm really thinking the reparations really need to go deep, starting maybe in the graveyards and the histories of those.”

She’s grateful for organizations like RBD that are dedicated to praising this history, but she said she’d like to see more support from the city of Dallas.

“This is something that we should sell as our city that this is something that we need to repair,” Whetstone said. “And it should be in our local history books in our schools.”

RBD president Deborah Hopes said that’s one of the aims of the tours.

“What I found is that they're getting these ‘wow’ moments like, 'wow, I didn't know that,’” she said. “I think that is strengthening the desire to do more and want to know more and to learn more about communities in themselves.”

Embracing the past

Remembering Black Dallas required all hands on-deck to be able to execute a project as big as the Ukunika bus tours — starting with the amount of research and networking that went into organizing them.

The organization has volunteers from all over Dallas who were curious to learn more about the history of the land they live on today. They believe it brings a new perspective to what should be researched further and highlighted.

“Everybody can embrace this history because it helps you understand the place that you are calling home,” volunteer tour guide Sharron Conrad said. “By understanding the people and the stories that make up these communities.”

Some, like Larry Offut, are trying to make up for the history they were naïve to. Offut is one of several members of RBD who's white and lived through the civil rights movement. He said the tours are bringing awareness to a past that many people ignored.

“It really was striking to me to read those things and understand that I had lived them as a child and as a young adult,” Offutt said. “…It never occurred to me there was any trauma.”

While RBD has worked to document some of the worst events in Dallas’ past by installing markers around the city memorializing lynching victims, the tours show that there’s much more to the area’s Black history than trauma.

“What I would like others to know is that we didn't only just exist and survive,” the organization’s financial secretary Reginald Small said. “We actually thrived in our communities even with the oppression. We actually thrived, and it's so documented.”

Remembering Black Dallas offers the Ukunika Bus and Walking Tours once a month through August. Some areas they'll hit next are Dealey Plaza, Old City Park and Deep Ellum.