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RAPadura Xique-Chico RAPadura is a Brazilian poet, singer, rapper, music producer and activist who builds his work on a contemporary mix of rap and the tradition of the popular culture of the Northeast Region of Brazil. Digital Released in 2020, the album “Universo do Canto Falado” was the first official album by the musician RAPadura. The project features twelve original songs, maintaining the same style that revolutionized Brazilian Rap in 2010 from his first mix-tape called “A Fita Embolada Do Engenho. With rhythms ranging from regional, psychedelic rock, pop to the artist’s roots in conscious rap, with the well-known speed...

The voodoo is working and the dreaming don´t stop, in other words don´t stop till get enough. The second part of the dream based mix where dreams come true through music, in fact the music can inspire us to dreams, or as in one of the songs in this mix tape by the artist Bernhard Wright, “…the music is the key, why not be free, misery will flee, just hum a melody, try a little dance and give yourself a change to…” also like in a good dream everything bad will flee. and in such case wake up could be...

Dj Dr.Sócrates new mix tape All You Need Is Love If we have a World to Win, we need Love & Work. Soulless work leads to nothing and love without effort is Platonic nonsense…: “I must tell you something, even though you may find it ludicrous. A true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love: love of humanity, love of justice and truth. It is impossible to think of a true revolutionary without this quality.”(Víctor Jara) From the vaults of DJ Dr. Sócrates. Only original vinyl records. One take.

We at Tropical Diaspora® Records are very happy to be able to announce a new Radio Broadcast. Gió Di Sera aka Don Rispetto is fighting for the right thing since a long time or like Spike Lee would put it he is doing the right thing!. Gió ´s fight happens not only in the Radio but on the streets of Berlin – Kreuzberg, the mythical district in the Germany Capital. Kreuzberg was during the Cold War era one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in 1990 it has become more gentrified and known for its...

Tropical Diaspora® Records MANIFESTO All that we are not and will never become – Tropical Diaspora® Records’ position facing cultural appropriation Let us begin by stating that the language in which we write is alien to us. But like any other means of communication language is also an arena of struggle. We use language as a weapon. The culture of colonized people is managed in the metropolis of the Western world. It has been incorporated in the system of cultural classification of the West. Ethno, Afro, Latin, World… they are all names that give Westerners means of recognition and difference:...