About Tropical Diaspora Records®

Active since 1999 and established as recording company in 2015 in Berlin by the DJ and producer DJ Garrincha (São Paulo, Brazil) the label goes back to the 1990’s Berlin, at a time of underground parties and a very exciting cultural milieu where DJ Garrincha was active. In 2008 he started the event called Tropical Diaspora.
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Berlin Apr 1 (TD®R): New Mix Tape Sweet Home Chicago at Estero Bar

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00April 1st, 2021|Blog, Mix Tapes, News|

ooooo stoked to bring back our good buddy @dj_garrincha tonight at 10! All vinyl Tropical Diaspora 🔥🔥🔥...

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Berlin Mar 27 (TD®R): Radio Broadcast by Don Rispetto Featuring Dj GArRinchA & Dr.Sócrates from Tropical Diaspora® Records

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00March 26th, 2021|Blog, Mix Tapes, News|

The first track is exactly about the encounter between the native and aboriginal people in the Americas, Kidnapped and Slaved Africans and their executioner i.e. Europeans.

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Berlin Mar 22 (TD®R): New Mix Tape Rebellion in the Afro Diaspora Crossroads

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00March 22nd, 2021|Blog, Mix Tapes, News|

The first track is exactly about the encounter between the native and aboriginal people in the Americas, Kidnapped and Slaved Africans and their executioner i.e. Europeans.

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Berlin Mar 11 (TD®R): Universo Do Canto Falado Unboxing

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00March 10th, 2021|Blog, News|

BRAZILIAN Conscious RAP on vinyl 💥⛓✊🏽 presented by Tropical Diaspora Records & Nibiru Recordz presents UNIVERSO DO CANTO FALADO on vinyl by RAPadura

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Berlin Mar 1 (TD®R): Universo Do Canto Falado on Vinyl by RAPadura & BaianaSystem – Olho de Boi

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00March 1st, 2021|Blog, News|

BRAZILIAN Conscious RAP on vinyl 💥⛓✊🏽 presented by Tropical Diaspora Records & Nibiru Recordz presents UNIVERSO DO CANTO FALADO on vinyl by RAPadura

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Berlin Feb 01 (TD®R): New Release on Vinyl • UNIVERSO DO CANTO FALADO by RAPadura

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00February 1st, 2021|Blog, News|

Universo Do Canto Falado by RAPpadura, new release and pre-order

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Recife, Brazil Jan 13 (TD®R): Recycling Project Help

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00January 13th, 2021|Blog, News|

My name is Estevão and, since 2015, I started a selective trash collection project at Itapuama Beach, in Cabo de Santo Agostinho / PE Brazil, through the Onda Limpa Institution.

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Berlin Jan 08 (TD®R): Get closer to Tropical Diaspora® Records

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00January 7th, 2021|Blog, News|

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Berlin Jan 07 (TD®R): Sugestão para um hino novo: “Barracão de Zinco”, com Elizeth Cardoso, Jacob do Bandolim e Zimbo Trio Featured by Bob Fernandes Chanel

By |2022-08-01T20:46:26+02:00January 7th, 2021|Blog, News|

Bolsonaro desmoraliza Exército blindando general Pazuello e ofende vítimas da Covid com Copa América

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Our Mission!

We emphasize cross-cultural experiences...

Tropical Diaspora Records® is committed to create and relect a musical narrativ originated by forced African migration, its collective memory and their powerful musical herstories. We are popular based, politically conscious and anti-colonial. As we carry out our musical research, we come face to face with the question of how to address the cultural life of communities that have been dispossessed and opressed for many centuries. Ways of looking and narratives need to be handed back, as we observe with sadness how mainstream recording companies are still in the business of taking advantage of, expropriating the cultural heritage of African and originary people world wide.

Frantz Fanon

We would like to thank Frantz Fanon, always a source of inspiration.

from Toward the African Revolution “…Having judged, condemned, abandoned his cultural forms, his language, his food habits, his sexual behavior, his way of sitting down, of resting, of laughing, of enjoying himself, the oppressed flings himself upon the imposed culture with the desperation of a drowning man. … At the United Nations there is a commission to fight race prejudice. Films on race prejudice, poems on race prejudice, messages on race prejudice. Spectacular and futile condemnations of race prejudice. In reality, a colonial country is a racist country. If in England, in Belgium, or in France, despite the democratic principles affirmed by these respective nations, there are still racists, it is these racists who, in their opposition to the country as a whole, are logically consistent. It is not possible to enslave men without logically making them inferior through and through. And racism is only the emotional, affective, sometimes intellectual explanation of this inferiorization.…”

Our Partners

"...Com sabença profunda irei cantando Altos feitos da gente luminosa..." Luís Gama

We believe that we can turn our ideas into reality through our innovative ways of storytelling. Our well equipped, insanely enthusiastic team helps us to realize any kind of artistic production.

 

 

Noise Studio

Noise Studio our Partner for Creation and production of soundtracks for cinema, internet, radio and television. Post production and audio finishing. Sound Design, sound effects and foley. Voice-over, recording and music production. Script Production and Audio Description Recording

 

 

Chanel Bob Fernandes

Channel of the Journalist Bob Fernandes. Our Partner for news and information with a Jornalistic Narrative thar represents us as independent recording company and as political conscious people.

 

Cinema Partners and Sponsors

Writing & Direction

Exploring Realities. Thinking in pictures. Forging unique characters.

 

AfroCannes

AfroCannes is a two-day event featuring panel discussions, country highlights, presentations, screenings, cocktails and tributes. AfroCannes aims at promoting diversity, inclusion in film across the industry. AfroCannes connects creatives, businesses and stakeholders from the entire film ecosystem at the world premiere film gathering; The Cannes Film Festival.

 

 

Noise Studio

Yanibes Consulting is communications and business consulting company.

 

Free Palestine! End Apartheid and Settler Colonialism. #freepalestine

Tropical Diaspora Records® position facing apartheid and colonialism. Israel is occupying and colonising Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, Tropical Diaspora Records® call urges action to pressure Israel to comply with international law.

Read our Manifesto: our position facing cultural appropriation.

... Look at a compilation of so-called World Music, as it is typically done in the US or Europe...The powerful cultural institutions of the European national states are happy to back this colonialist penetration in the name of the Other, because they know better. So we end cheering up Humboldt’s achievements as if they were our own... Colonialists have always granted themselves the right to represent Others, to measure them against their own scientific and artistic achievements. Record labels perpetuate this ideology when they create through recordings the plane where those featured are kept alive as Others, the strange subject of the colonialist curiosity and inquiry. By claiming the words World, Ethno, Afro or Latin the colonialist gives the impression of universality. But this is a misrepresentation. Through these recordings the colonized learns to act as African, as Latin, as Native in the eyes of the white supremacist. It means, the colonized has been stripped of her own humanity and universalism in order to become a puppet...

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