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Just uploaded FEETWORK EXERCISE to Mixcloud. Listen now!

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New heat from Haiti Ground Zero for rara season. Bang it!

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#tbt

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Did it ever occur (to you) you forgave yourself before I did?

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Best Shouts to the The Happy Show djs for having me.

Up in ya, TONIGHT!

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The Summer of Gods

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New visuals from FKA twigs titled tw-ache

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 AFRICAN ANARCHISM: Prospects for the Future 

(Click thru photo for book pdf)

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Mostly newish R&B chunes compiled with excerpts from Spike Jonze’s Her.

Songs by: MNEK, Spooky Black, fka x inc., NorvisJr., Francis Harris, Pheo and others.

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Lead single off El Mahdy Jr.'s follow-up to his 2013's The Spirit of Fucked Up Places, Gasba Grime. This track is dope but I look forward to the Young Echo & Blackest Ever Black refix. Album out 9 June.

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"We are nothing more than stardust, my brethren"

Brooklyn summer of 2012, Trinidadian astrophysicist Stephon Alexander and Brooklyn based producer Rioux came together to form the group Here Comes Now. Here is the first peak at their collab,  "A Brief History of Time." 

Stream it and download it.

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Dave Chapelle in conversation with Dr. Maya Angelou

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Mostly newish R&B chunes compiled with excerpts from Spike Jonze's Her.

Songs by: MNEK, Spooky Black, fka x inc., NorvisJr., Francis Harris, Pheo and others.

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This year we celebrate the late Sun Ra’s 100th anniversary.

Sun Ra is considered one of the most influential and innovative musicians and artists of the 20th century for his contributions to jazz and his pioneering use of electronic instruments. He is remembered for the alien identity to which the musician remained faithful for his whole adult life.

For Sun Ra, that otherworldly identity was rooted in very real, earthly issues, including the deeply alienating experience of growing up in the Jim Crow South.

“He began to think of the Earth as a place where evil had been turned loose at some point, and everything got worse and worse,” John Szwed, Sun Ra’s biographer, said.

His philosophy and response to a brutal world were inspired by the vast body of literature he read, including science fiction and Egyptology.

Ytasha Womack says a science fiction narrative appealed to Sun Ra because the genre provides the possibility for radical transformation: “People create entirely different worlds that provide a lens to reimagine ourselves.”

Craig Harris, who played in the Arkestra, said the musical innovations Sun Ra pioneered were all in service of his philosophy.

“We’re looking at the same box, but we’re looking at it from different angles,” Harris said of Sun Ra’s musical process. “You’re looking at it from 354 degrees and I’m looking at it from 360 degrees. And that was the whole concept with [Sun Ra]… You can choose your own reality. There’s no limits.”

Featuring the voices of Ytasha Womack, filmmaker and author of Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture and Rayla 2212;” Hank Shocklee, music producer and co-founder of the hip-hop group Public Enemy; Craig Harris, trombonist and composer who performed with Sun Ra from 1976 to 1979; John Szwed, professor of music at Columbia University and author of Space is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra.

This audio piece features unheard archival audio courtesy of writer Mark Sinker, who interviewed Sun Ra for his essay in The Wire, “Loving the Alien.”