100+ Albums Made By Black, Brown, Indigenous and POC Artists You Should Support on Bandcamp TODAY!
Bandcamp is donating one hundred percent of their proceeds to The Voting Rights Project, which offers assistance and encouragement for folks to vote. Our personal feelings on electoral politics aside, a lot of folks will be making purchases on Bandcamp, so we decided to make a (by no means exhaustive) list of one hundered Black. Brown and and POC artists on bandcamp that you should buy music from this Friday! In no particular order whatsoever….Support these artists! This list will be added to! In our current state of politics where white supremacy is a dominant narrative, the bare bones work that can be done is to support artists of color, first and foremost, this is a list to help facilitate with that! Curated by Ratskin Records with members of the community. Thank you to anyone who made recommendations for this list! Support marginalized artists everyday, fuck white supremacy, sexism, transphobia, ableism, and all forms of ignorance and systemic oppression.
1.Moor Mother “Fetish Bones”
“Camae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a national and international touring musician, poet, visual artist, and workshop facilitator, and has performed at numerous festivals, colleges, galleries, and museums around the world, sharing the stage with King Britt, Roscoe Mitchell, Claudia Rankine, Bell Hooks, and more. Camae is a vocalist in three collaborative performance groups: Irreversible Entanglements, MoorJewelry and 700bliss.
As a soundscape and visual artist, Ayewa’s work has been featured at Baltic Biennale, Samek Art Museum, Vox Populi, Pearlman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum of Art Chicago, ICA Philadelphia, Bergan Kunstall, Hirshorn Gallery, and in an upcoming 2018 solo show at The Kitchen NYC. As a workshop facilitator, Camae has presented at Cornell University, MOFO Festival, Moogfest, Black Dot Gallery and others. Camae is co-founder and curator of Rockers Philly Project a 10-year long running event series and festival focused on marginalized musicians and artists spanning multiple genres of music.”
2. 8ULENTINA “Eucalyptus”
“8ULENTINA’s debut EP ‘EUCALYPTUS’ released via CLUB CHAI is a gathering of experimental club tracks exploring self care, ritual and healing. The selection of tracks on the EP address non traditional approaches to composition, utilizing middle eastern percussive sounds, recordings of objects or making processes. 8ULENTINA has a specific interest in sound as material and creating physical space through sound, rooted in their origins and process as a visual artist. The EP also features a collaboration between 8ULENTINA and London based producer and vocalist Organ Tapes.”
3. Jasmine Infiniti “SIS’
“CLUB CHAI is set to release Jasmine Infiniti’s debut EP ‘SiS’ on September 26th.
“SiS is a work of very personal and emotional thematic material. It’s dealing with my experience as a black trans woman in this new era, in a time of discovery and publicity, where the gaze of the media found its attention on us, a time where Paris is Burning exists as a historical document. It’s for my sisters. It’s a commentary on fear, sexuality, the importance of community and camaraderie, and the anger and shade of it all. It’s also about how we are more similar than we are different, how more of us are sisters than we know.”
– Jasmine Infiniti ”
4. dreamcrusher “Hackers All Of Them Hackers”
” NIHILIST QUEER REVOLT MUSIK ☥ Genderqueer, non-binary (they/them/their pronouns). Industrial, noise, punk, shitgaze, hardcore. Eat 2003″
5. Russell E.L. Butler “God Is Change”
” Russell has been making waves in the Bay Area music scene for years. Their project Black Jeans evoked the emotional and physical qualities of minimal synth and electronic body music to transport listeners to hidden and forgotten sonic landscapes. For the past few years they have been making a brand of stripped down machine techno that has evolved rapidly with each successive release. Transplantation, evolution, and healing are themes in Russell’s music. They based their 2015 album, “God is Change”, on Octavia Butler’s Parable series of novels, in which these are central tenets of the philosophy that the books explore. Since its release “God is Change” has received major acclaim, with NPR naming it one of their top 10 favorite electronic albums of 2015. In 2016, Russell released Visions of the Future on Jacktone Records, which is a collection of improvised modular synthesizer sessions. A month later, Russell’s follow up to “God is Change”, “The First Step”, was released on Black Opal. “The First Step” is dedicated to the “…black, brown, trans, queer, and gay folks of Oakland” and posits that “…sometimes to resist oppression, all we must do is simply exist. That is the first step. Let us strive to walk without fear.”
6. Beast Nest “A History Of Sexual Violence”
“SHARMI BASU is an Oakland born and based South Asian woman of color creating experimental music as a means of decolonizing musical language. She attempts to catalyze a political, yet ethereal aesthetic by combining her anti-colonial and anti-imperialist politics with a commitment to spirituality within the arts. She is an MFA graduate from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Electronic Music and Recording Media and has worked with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, John Bischoff, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, George Lewis, Nicholas Collins, Laetitia Sonami, Jesse Drew, Bob Ostertag, Dr. Nalini Ghuman, Maggi Payne, and more. Her workshops on “Decolonizing Sound” have been featured at the International Society for Improvised Music, the Empowering Women of Color Conference, and have reached international audiences. She performs almost 100 times a year and has toured through the US and Canada as well as internationally in Europe. She specializes in new media controllers, improvisation in electronic music, and intersectionality within music and social justice. She currently teaches Sound Art and Interactive Art at Ex’pression College in the Bay Area. She also founded and hosts an all people-of-color improvisation and performance group called the MARA Performance Collective in Oakland, CA. You can find out more about Sharmi at http://www.sharmi.info.”
7. Signor Benedick The Moor “el Negro”
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The image of today’s new act that accompanies his debut album on his bandcamp was almost enough on its own to pique our interest. He looks like a 16th-century courtier or a medieval polymath, a black Michelangelo, and this tallied with what we’d been told by his PR, who warned us to expect someone “definitely in the weird rap category, like Danny Brown rapping over super theory-based Renaissance music.” The name of the project, El Negro by Signor Benedick the Moor, seemed to bear out this idea of someone freakily intelligent and incendiary in the court of King Louis, rapping about the perils of absolutism and the like. In fact, the titles on the album further this vision of a Danny Brown character marooned in the middle ages: there’s one called Aristotelian Reptilian Pavilion, another called Existential Humanitarianism as a Fashion Choice, even one called Poeticism as an Extrinsic Finality.
There are some plucked pizzicato strings on Signor Benedick, lots of brass and assorted orchestration, and there is a general air of symphonia about it, but it’s not quite XXX in XIV, as anticipated. It’s quirky enough, though, and it is pretty Danny Brown-ish – the Pope even makes a cameo, as he does on Pac Blood. The music has a similar frantic charge to Brown’s, and even though the words are put through a strange historic filter, it’s clear that Christian A. McLaurin, who is Signor Benedick, shares DB’s obsessions, vocal tics and worldview. ” – THE GUARDIAN
8. They Hate Change “Cycles”
“Deluxe reissue of They Hate Change’s 2015 release on Deathbomb Arc, ‘Cycles’. Expanded from 9 tracks to 16, featuring remastered b-sides, one offs, and brand new joints!!”
9. Anna Luisa “Green”
“Anna Luisa soars in utopic hyperspace with interstellar synthscapes and optimistic songwriting in her debut solo album “Green,” an ambitious suite of shimmering summer-ready tracks that emphasize her craft as a healer, producer, and empathic collaborator.
“Green” invites listeners to Luisa’s “green place”—a new age refuge of lush landscapes and verdant soil, an oasis of collaborators and friends in the Los Angeles desert, where she lives and works. “I imagine us all chilling in a rich green ambiance of plants, herbs, birds, lizards… a conjured space to provide a mental and spiritual break from reality,” said Luisa.
Luisa is also a visual artist who produces her own videos and paints immersive environments that draw viewers into her lush, vibrant universe. These aesthetics extend to her sonic palette, evident in the warm analog synths and hymnal vocals that emanate from her music. Luisa also lends her work to further art forms—album opener “Offering” expands on music she produced for sci-fi video game “Jeep Jeep” and “Green Place” is derived from a composition made for contemporary dance artist Kevin Williamson.
Written while grieving the sudden passing of a close friend, Luisa set out to imagine a paradise for ancestors and friends through songs that could very well be heard in a dance floor or a new age wellness center. She chose the color green for its symbolism of growth, renewal, and abundance. “Green is the color of your heart chakra. I gaze inward towards my green place which rules the capacity to love, forgive, sympathize, grieve, give and receive,”
10. White Boy Scream “Remains”
“Micaela Tobin is a classically trained soprano and sound artist who makes her own hybrid of noise-opera under the moniker “White Boy Scream” as a process of reclaiming and reconciling the construct of the “diva”. Her latest release, “Remains” is an accumulation of pieces composed between 2015-2017 that bear witness to her unique process of dissecting her operatic voice through the use of electronic fx pedals. The album itself serves as a tender and abstracted dedication to the poetry of a late friend. ”
11. Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr. “The Wages of Being Black Is Death”
“‘The Wages of Being Black is Death’ is an exhausted and defeated audio documentation of the alienation – and eventual distillation – of the Black Body as a subject and content of the social sphere by Kepla & DeForrest Brown, Jr. Written and recorded in a week’s time between file-sharing and overnight home studio binges, the mixtape is framed as a deadpan comedy that follows a slothful and downtrodden Black Body as it drifts amongst the ambient commons of the Whites. Artist Ryan Kuo states that, “Whiteness acts by dictating the terms and categories that describe everything in the universe except itself.” ‘The Wages of Being Black is Death’ in turn serves as a reversal of the nominal gaze of categorization, a paranoid disavowal of an uneven and silent social contract as well as an intimate encounter with the daily, incessant slights and traumas felt by the Black Body in everyday life. ”
12. Ritual Chair “Title ix”
“Noise project that is uncomfortable and anxiety creating. Based out of Pomona, she yells about past pain to force you to feel it with her.”
13. TAHNZZ “XILA”
32 minutes of heavy drones and wide walls from New Mexico sound artist Tahnee Udero. Tones moving at such undifferentiated speeds have to disintegrate when they can’t synch up. Like many releases on this label, the continuing story of the shape of the desert and its soundtrack onward…”
Noise artist from Albuquerque, NM.
Member of Death Convention Singers, Milch de la Máquina, and The Black Range.
14. SBSM “Leave Your Body”
“Hardcore was an adjective before it was a noun. This is haunting, cacophonous, strange and beautiful music. Machines with heartbeats and minds of their own, live drums, a table full of noise, and three geniuses in complete control, laying joy and rage to tape.”
15. Kohinoorgasm “Synthwali and the War Empire”
16. Yves Tumor “Serpent Music”
“The enigmatic Tennessee-raised, Turin-based Yves Tumor presents a poignant new album, recorded between Miami, Leipzig, Los Angeles and Berlin over the past three years.
Evolved from a diverse and prolific creative history under an expansive plethora of covert aliases via various forward-thinking labels, ‘Yves Tumor’ emerges as his most personal and matured incarnation to date.
With involvement across various artistic outlets expanding to fashion such as a visceral live performance for LA’s Hood By Air earlier this year, the global artist has built a distinctly bold personal aesthetic both musically and visually as a performer. ”
17. Black Quantum Futurism “Temporal Technologies”
18. Las Sucias “Salte del medio”
“Las Sucias is a duo formed by Danishta Rivero and Alexandra Buschman, mixing anti-patriarchal riotgrrrl lyrics, afro–caribbean rhythms, brujería noise and possessed vocals. Each performance is a ritual that combines all of the senses and elevates into a higher realm, inspiring the listener to dance, speak in tongues, laugh hysterically and get possessed by the spirits awoken”
19. JLin “Black Origami”
““Black Origami” is driven by a deep creative thirst which she describes as “this driving feeling that I wanted to do something different, something that challenged me to my core. Black Origami for me, comes from letting go creatively, creating with no boundaries. The simple definition of origami is the art of folding and constructing paper into a beautiful, yet complex design. Composing music for me is like origami, only I’m replacing paper with sound. I chose to title the album “Black Origami” because like “Dark Energy” I still create from the beauty of darkness and blackness. The willingness to go into the hardest places within myself to create for me means that I can touch the Infinity.”
20. The Creatrix “Approaching An Abandoned Helm”
21. AhMerAhSu “STAR”
22. Fuck You Pay Us “Live at the Cielo Gallery…”
23. Z5A Z5A GABOR “Left Skull bank”
24. 700 BLISS “SPA 700”
“700 Bliss is the reality check we all needed. The sonic encapsulating structure of “SPA 700” leaks blood and futuristic knowledge into our empty cup, the education of the trash of imperialism, all while affirming the artists and their collaborators within their own uncompromising positions within the histories of futuristic sounds and societies. 700 Bliss’ music tells their unheard stories through an uncannily stark and real web of historical knowledge, black futurism, and sonic sorcery. 700 Bliss is radical protest music for the beginnings of a world which must leave this current place far behind to burn in peace. With “Spa 700,” 700 Bliss stands as one of the most sonically important contemporary electronic music duos to date. Which side are you on? (SORRY, you don’t get to choose, they do.)”
25. Mykki Blanco “Mykki”
“A singular artist who has made an indelible mark on the pop music landscape with a string of street-level releases and mixtapes, Mykki Blanco releases his debut album “Mykki” on 16th September. Produced by Woodkid and Jeremiah Meece, the album finds Blanco simultaneously at his most fearless and his most accessible.”
26. Akvan “بلک متال آریایی”
27. SPELLLING “Hard to Please”
“SPELLLING released her first full length Pantheon of Me in September 2017 and it was self written, performed and produced in her apartment in Berkeley, California. She began experimenting with music production in 2015 in effort to carry on the creative legacy of a lost loved one. Drawing heavily from messages in her dreams, her sound spirals through clarity and obscurity searching through landscapes of psychic space. The result is a divine soul music, soft in its restraint but heavy with passion. SPELLLING’s powerful vocal range dances over compositions that vary from rhythmic and ethereal to crunchy and hypnotic, while all remaining singularly cohesive to her distinct and enveloping sound. Pantheon of Me was Bandcamp’s #4 record of the year in 2017 and they raved of that sound: “Cabral has it, from her careful sense of composition to her charismatic presence to her ability to communicate with her music straight through to the listener’s heart.”
28. Nnamdi Ogbonnaya “DROOL”
29. DJ Haram “Body Count”
DJ Haram is a producer and DJ originally from New Jersey, currently based in Philadelphia. Stylistically versatile, she throws down for Jersey, Philly, and Baltimore with club and booty bounce sets but also has been known to pay homage to her roots in the tradition of Middle Eastern dance music and of DIY noise and experimental sound. DJ Haram (along with Moor Mother) is 1/2 of the noise/rap group 700 BLISS. In spring 2017 Haram composed and original score for the debut tour of Richard Siegal’s Munich-based modern dance company “Ballet of Difference.” Dj Haram participated in Redbull Music Academy Bass Camp in summer 2017. While in Philly Haram curates a few nights; a legal fundraiser party series (f)LAWLESS, a monthly live/DIY hip hop night ‘Gas’, and a monthly radio program RAGE RADIO on 91.7FM. She has curated events for MoMa Ps1 Sunday Sessions and Fringe Arts Festival Philadelphia. Dj Haram is touring North America and Europe in summer/fall 2017; recent and upcoming tour highlight performances include Unsound Krakow, MoMa Ps1 Warm Up, Bonnaroo, De School Amsterdam, Creamcake Berlin, Razzmatazz Barcelona, Damas Lisbon, Paradox Baltimore, GHE2OG0TH1K New York City, Club Chai Oakland, and Drake Hotel Toronto.
30. Marlo Eggplant “Delayed”
“Marlo Eggplant is a prominent figure in a thriving and diverse international scene of female experimental music performers. As curator of the pioneering Ladyz in Noyz compilation series, an ongoing project from 2008 to the present, she has helped to foster this scene and continues to promote emerging artists from around the world on her record label Corpus Callosum. With an intuitive command of minimal instrumentation, including processed autoharp and contact microphones, Marlo Eggplant’s sparsely structured notes and layered static textures build into sonically dense drone improvisations.
Receiving childhood classical training in voice, guitar, piano, and cello, Marlo began her solo musical career in the 1990s favoring folk and punk, playing local coffee shops and arty hangouts as a teen. When she attended college in the Berkshires, she became more interested in avant garde and bizarre musics. A burst of raw creativity in the early 2000s brought the playful lo-fi pop experiments of the first recordings released under the name Marlo Eggplant, concurrent with her disjointed trance-like drumming as half of the deconstructionist rock duo Hazardous Guadalupe, and her co-founding of the Spleencoffin record label with Timothy Wisniewski in 2003.”
31. Tyler Holmes “Invisible Island”
“Tyler Holmes makes music for people caught between worlds. As a queer, gender non-binary, person of color their music reflects what it is to exist outside/around the forced categorization and trappings of tradition and societal norms. Sonically diverse; Tyler blends Hip Hop, R&B, Gospel, and Techno into gorgeous collages that reflect on sexual, spiritual and physical identities.”
32. Bigawatt “Past Perfect”
“Bigawatt is Marisa Demarco, a journalist, musician and event curator in the high desert”
33. Maya Songbird “Writing My Life”
34. SAN CHA “Capricha Del Diablo”
“San Cha is a singer-songwriter known for her explosive, visceral and emotional live performances. Her name is derived from the spanish word ‘sancha’ which translates to ‘mistress’, and is also a reference to the title of ‘San’ given to male saints in the catholic tradition”
35. Mirel Wagner “When The Cellar Children See The Light of Day”
36. The Sorcerer Family “Hidden Rooms demo”
37. Monochromacy “Living Posture”
“Monochromacy was originally known as Van Clitt when founded in 2007 by Esteban Flores. The lineup has included Flores, Sam Lopez (aka noise artist and Stay Strange promoter Zsa Zsa Gabor), and Misty Sunglow on bass and vocals, though most of the band’s first ten years was basically spent as a Flores solo project.
Their 5-song Cement Cathedrals EP was released in summer 2013, mastered by James Plotkin and released on the local Stay Strange lable founded by Lopez. Limited to only 50 copies released on cassette, all tracks were mastered by James Plotkin (mastered for SUNN, Earth, Khanate) and manufactured by National Audio Company, with package design by dark artist Brandon Geurts.
Cement Cathedrals is a bleak landscape of ominous ambiance. A followup released in Autumn 2016, Live Isolated, features songs recorded all in one take.
By 2017, Flores had expanded the band once again to include collaborations with electronic keyboardist and percussionist Brian Ivan and Ariel Iribe on drums and electron”
38. CBN “Buried and Bald”
39. Cheflee “Hawaii Tape”
40. PU22L3 “Slight Of Hand Styles”
41. Nihar “Chrysalis”
42. Zachary James Watkins ‘Mixed Raced”
“Zachary James Watkins studied composition with Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. Zachary has received commissions from Cornish College of The Arts, The Microscores Project, the Beam Foundation, Somnubutone Radio Series free103point9.org, sfsound and the Seattle Chamber Players. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartetwas awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has subsequently been performed at the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration, the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin Germany and in Seattle Wa, as part of the 2nd Annual Town Hall New Music Marathon featuring violist Eyvind Kang. Zachary has performed in numerous festivals across the United States, Mexico and Europe and his band Black Spirituals opened for pionering Drone Metal bandEarth during their 2015 European tour. In 2008, Zachary premiered a new multi-media work entitled Country Western as part of the Meridian Gallery’s Composers in Performance Series that received grants from the The American Music Center and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. An excerpt of this piece is published on a compilation album entitled “The Harmonic Series” along side Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Fullman, Theresa Wong Charles Curtis and Duane Pitre among others. Zachary designed the sound and composed music for the plays “I have loved Strangers” produced by Just Theatre, which listed “top ten of 2007” in the East Bay Express and the 8th Annual ReOrient Theatre Festival. His sound art work entitled Third Floor::Designed Obsolescence, “spoke as a metaphor for the breakdown of the dream of technology and the myth of our society’s permanence,” review by Susan Noyes Platt in the Summer 05 issue of ARTLIES. Zachary releases music on the labels Sige, Cassauna, Confront (UK), The Tapeworm and Touch (UK). Novembre Magazine (DE), ITCH (ZA), Walrus Press and the New York Miniature Ensemble have published his writings and scores. Zachary has been an artist in resident at the Espy Foundation, Djerassi and the Headlands Center for The Arts.”
43. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids “An Angel Fell”
“Idris Ackamoor is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, actor, tap dancer, producer, administrator, and director. He is the Founder, Executive/Co-Artistic Director of the multi-disciplinary San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey”
44. Xuxa Santamaria “Billionair Rainbow”
“XUXA SANTAMARIA (XXSM) is a music and performance project made up of artist Sofía Córdova (b. 1985 Carolina, Puerto Rico) and electronic musician Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland aka ABAIA (b. 1982 New York, New York). Interested in subverting and working within pop forms, the collective works within both pop and experimental frameworks to create albums and performances.
The duo first worked together in creating the sound pieces associated with Baby, Remember My Name, Córdova’s first project merging performance, video art and music. The duo pressed and released the record ChuCha Santamaria y Usted in 2011, composed of the tracks from this piece. They’ve since produced several discrete XXSM performances, including a 30 minute experimental performance titled Brothyrs and Systers of the Mystery, and a limited edition cassette mixtape titled BILLIONAIR RAINBOW about the trappings of labor and capital. The latter features a suite of unique music videos made by Córdova which range from works of durational performance in a 1970’s feminist tradition to videos made through the appropriation of moving image. Both ChuCha Santamaria y Usted and BILLIONAIR RAINBOW were released by YOUNG CUBS records in Austin. They are currently working on a new release, Chancletas de Oro (to be released by RATSKIN RECORDS Fall 2018), focusing this time on feminist/ femme narratives drawn from both history and works of fiction. Together, they also score all of Córdova’s independent video and live performance work, most recently they worked together BILONGO LILA: Nobody Dies in a Foretold War, an epic, 7 musician performance with dance and video performed at Mills College as part of a residency Córdova participated in through the school’s museum. ”
45. Raven Chacon “At The Point Where the Rivers Crossed, We Drew Our Knives”
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Raven Chacon (born December 1977 in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, Arizona, United States) is an American composerand artist. He is known as a composer of chamber music as well as a solo performer of noise music. He is recognized as one of few Native Americans working in either genre.
Chacon is a member of the American Indian art collective, Postcommodity, with whom he has developed multi-media installations which have been exhibited internationally. His collective and solo work has been presented at Sydney Biennale,[1] Kennedy Center, Adelaide International, Vancouver Art Gallery, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, The San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Chaco Canyon, and Performance Today.[2]
Chacon also performs in the projects KILT with Bob Bellerue, Mesa Ritual with William Fowler Collins, Endlings with John Dieterich, and collaborations with composers Robert Henke and Thollem McDonas. In 2016, he was commissioned by Kronos Quartet to compose a work for their Fifty For The Future project”
46. Demogoroth Satanum “Kingdom of Hell”
47. The Younger Lovers “4/4 Kick and Let The Beat Ride”
48: The Breathing Light “Light Fast, Black Power!”
“The Breathing Light began around 2008 in Normal, Alabama. In 2010 it relocated to Chicago.”
49: Cruz De Navajas “Dominacion”
50. ANATOMY “S/T”
51. Kelis “Jerk Ribs”
52. Quay Dash “Satan’s Angel”
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Dash’s bleak outlook comes after a life of struggle, a childhood filled with foster care and group homes as she tried to find an identity in her surroundings. “It was a real tough time for me,” she says. “I ended up living with my sister, and that’s when I started writing music and talking about the shit that was bothering me in society. That’s when I started being Quay Dash.”
Her background might have led to this awakening but it doesn’t overwhelm her music. Transphobic isn’t just an EP about Quay Dash’s struggles, it’s raw and braggadocious, and quickly making her name known. “People are feeling it,” she says. “I’m pretty stoked about the future and the present is just, it’s live right now.” Despite the growth in female rappers, Dash is largely unmoved by her peers (“There’s nobody inspiring me”) and instead, acknowledges Lil’ Kim, Remy Ma and Foxy Brown as her inspirations from the past.
Dash wants to fill this void and represent her city, which she feels is too often overlooked for the south, and she’s confident about her ability to push a genre that’s often transphobic and misogynist. “I’m sure it’s no different than being on the street,” she says. “I know that I’m better than most of those rappers anyways. As far as my music I just want everybody to hear my voice and let them know that I’m here, and I’m here to stay; I’m here to stay and slay.”
53. Android Lust “Crater, Vol 1”
54. Lawrence Lindell “Eclectic Frequencies”
“”Combining the abrasive DnB inflected beats of Aphex Twin with Flying Lotus’ gift for beautiful atmosphere, Lindell’s music is truly unique.” -Nathan Leigh (AFROPUNK)
“Lawrence Lindell of Los Angeles is an artist that falls into the realm of the unexplored regions in electronic music and it’s mind bending to process every sound that speeds past you. It calls to a reminiscent state of sonic pioneers such as Aphex Twin, Squarepusher and Autechre, glowing with the same rapid rhythmic intensity and translucent liquid like layering that those artists have become synonymous for. Highly intricate and technical, his music is buzzing with a flourishing sequence of experimental grids that is a really special blend of genres and ideas.” -Erik Otis (Sound Colour Vibration)
“Lawrence’s trademark sound is as intricate as they come, pushing the boundaries of conceptual electronica like the great minds Aphex Twin, Four Tet, and Flying Lotus are known so well for.” -Nick Abitia (Sound Colour Vibration)”
55. The Bedroom Witch “Triptych”
“Cast as the misunderstood maker of the veil, the Bedroom Witch lyrically chants spells alluding to an inevitable apocalypsewhile embodying the creative exhaustion of isolation. Her aesthetics build on dark pop ballads, an ominous execution of chord progressions through mysterious allure and a danceable haunting that produces the nostalgic agony of Hell/Limbo theories ”
56. Slanted Square “Three Sides”
57. King Vision Ultra “Pain Of Mind”
58. Felidae “s/t”
59. Snatch Power ft/ The Uhuruverse & SondriaWRITES “Channeling Calafia”
60. Edge Slayer “Edge Slayer”
61. Mosca Muerta “s/t”
62. Jeepneys & Sister Mantos “My Loves Shines Up In Circles”
63. Ase Manual “Oh Okay”
64. Dengue Dengue Dengue “Semillero”
65. Golden Champagne Flavored Sweatshirt ‘Animals Calling Animals”
66. Muyassar Kurdi “Travelling”
67. B L A C K I E “Remains”
68. Compactor “Basic”
69. Softie “Emotional Reasoning”
70. Earthbound “The Flood”
71. Amenta Abioto “Opening Flower Hymns”
72. E. Hernandez “Rave In Perpetuity”
73. African Ghost Valley “Colony”
74. Zedgar Infiniti “Toxic Femme”
75. Black Hat “Willow”
76. Volahn “CN-26 Aq-Ab-Al”
77. LSDXOXO “BODY MODS”
78. Ana Roxanna “~~~”
79. XINA XURNER “Queens Of The Night”
“Marvin Astorga and Young Joon Kwak join forces as XINA XURNER, to bring you sadical and sexperimental industrial-noise-diva-dance anthems that ooze sex, death, and decay. Xina Xurner will make you sweat.”
80. Elisa Harkiss “Stomp Dance”
“Elisa Harkins is a Native American (Cherokee/Muscogee) composer and artist originally hailing from Miami, Oklahoma. Harkins received her BA from Columbia College Chicago and her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. She has since continued her education at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Harkins is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) tribe”
81. Moor Mother x Mental Jewelry “Big Crime” (Remix by : mdmdata
82. Tavishi “HOME: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack:”
83. ONO “Your Future Is Metal”
ONO is an Industrial/Avant/Gospel/Noise Band, founded in 1980 and played all over the Chicago and parts of the Midwest till the mid 80’s.
The Band rehearsed weekly in a finished basement on the South Side near the affluent “PILL HILL” area. ONO shared the space with End Result at their inception July 1980 till they moved to the Mercy Mission.
84. LeRoi X M{A}B “…trio along the story’s end”
“Formed in 2015 by RA Washington, M[A]B looks to forage new pathways toward heart music by melding soul, blues, electronics, avant-poetics w/ futurist beats.”
85. Obliferous “Liminal Space”
86. DRAMA “Drama”
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All songs recorded by Jose Hernandez except songs 1 and 3 by Ryan Fleming and Jason King. Mastering by Sharmi Basu. Layout by Eric. Design by Tyler. Out on Aklasan Records. All songs written by Drama.
Guitar/Vocals: Monica
Bass: Krista
Drums: Aimee”
87. PURPURA ” COURONNE DE MERD“
“Mexican female harsh noise unit based in Switzerland and France.
Half of Power Harsh duo TZITZIMIME.”
88. Queens D. Light :Flavor Of Green”
“Queens D.Light is an Oakland based rap artist.”
89. Melanin “Not Your Target”
“‘Not Your Target’ demo cassette tape features 6 tracks on Side A and a bonus ‘Culture Clash’ mash-up on Side B which is exclusive for both digital download and physical copy. ”
90. Ed Balloon “No Smoking”
“Where most people would look at the club as a place to lose your mind and your morals for a few hours, Ed Balloon’s genius is his ability to shamelessly find some humanity, some feeling amongst the people just looking for one-night-stands.” – AFROPUNK
91. Delish “Violet EP”
92. Squid Ink “Under Siege”
“Squid Ink is a four piece band from Fresno, CA. With members Amber Williams (vox/guitar), Vishinna Turner (bass/vox), AudreyJohnson (drums/guitar), and Janell Bowen (bass/drums); blending the sounds of grunge, punk, and riot grrrl. Squid Ink creates music amplifying the voices of womxn and femmes combating the misogynoir, white supremacist, cis-heterosexist, capitalist, actual dystopia we live in”
93. The Genie “Crystal Mirror, Part 1”
“The Genie is an avant-garde performing artist and guitar looping innovator; taking a DJ approach to guitar, he is the creator of a live-looping method called ‘scratch guitar’ and a unique brand of live-remixing called ‘g-mixing’.
94. Chip Scout “Ice Cold Nine”
95. Natalia “Six”
“Independent -Multi Media Artist. Molding and manipulating sound, symbol and body.”
96. Genital Quartz “Alien Trust’
97. George Chen “Word Origami”
98. Chaki & The Mystic Defenders
“Chaki is a funky alien wizard from Outer Space hailing from the planet Chaka 12. With his unique take on electro punk bassthump, he has brought his weird ass stage show to festivals like Noise Pop and has opened up for like minded weirdos Peelander Z, Bob Log III, Metalachi, Captured By Robots and The Oingo Boingo Dance Party. Rolling Stone said he is like Prince except not sexy and much fatter.”
99. Jennifer Simone x Zijnzijn Zijnzijn! “Inward / Outward”
100. TZITZIMIME “live at SONORECTURES: CHRONOPHAGOLOGY”
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101. V/A: To catch A Light : Field recordings from Madagascar
102. Daveed Diggs “Small Things To A Giant”
103. DemonSleeper “Dream Sequence, 1”
104. Julia Mazawa “Dream Of El Dorado”
105. Collude Noise Unit “The Black Earth”
106. Black Spirituals “black Access / Black Axes
107. Diavol Strain “Demonio”
108. False Figure “False Figure”
“US Tour with Cruz De Navajas (CDMX) May 24th-June 24th
12″ out on Near Dark // Last Hour records
@falsefigure”
109. Hel “el ojo de dios”
110. Twin Tribes “Still In Still”
“Dark melodic sounds, synthesizers, lyrics about the undead, the occult and parallel universes.”
111. DoNormaal “THIRD DAUGHTER”
112. Half-Breed “Practice Makes Something”
113. Wizard Apprentice “I Am Invisible”
114. Nightmare Difficulty “Run And Gun”
80s action, violent video games… Formerly of many different metal, punk, and grind bands.
115. Postcommodity “We Lost Half The Forest and The Rest Will Burn This Summer
Combining Western classical instruments and performers with their own Southwestern-rasquache electronics, Postcommodity’s third full-length release is a 16-song concept album recounting the ever-cycling decay of a desert drought from the view of its flora and fauna. Trumpets, bass drums, strings, piano and voices dirge through the only path to the end. Jackets printed and embossed with ash. Limited to 200 copies.
116. S O L V “Wasted In Arcana”
117. LEXAGON “Electric Meats”
118. Green Ova Undergrounds “Green Ova Records Greatest Hits (produced by Squadda B)”
119. Head Boggle “Live at I.N.C. Oakland, 2016”
120. VANKMEN “The maxx (part 1)”
121. JPAGMAFIA “Communist Slow Jams”
122. Flower Pattern “total drip”
123. Dax Pierson “macrobid”
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