The signal from the Crossroads continues, the #2.

You are still here. Or you have just arrived. Either way: the crossroads does not ask how you came. Only that you listen.

Since the first transmission, we have been asked: what do you want from us?

Nothing you are not already carrying.

We do not want your data. We do not want your loyalty. We do not want your money before the music. We want the same thing Exu wants: the encounter. The moment when a signal leaves one body and enters another, changed.

This is not a newsletter. It never was. This is a second signal from the same crossroads

What arrived:

1. New Fellowship Plans — Not a subscription. Not a crowdfunding campaign. A different kind of circle. Details inside.

2. New Digital Release: Dub Manual — Planetas De Pedras The Sound as collision. Music from the wound, not about it.

We authorize total reproduction.

You are still here. The crossroads thanks you.

Tropical Diaspora Records® Fellowship Plans

The Keepers – A New Way to Sustain the Current.

Tropical Diaspora Records was founded on a simple, uncompromising idea: that the music of the Afro-diaspora is not entertainment. It is memory. It is resistance. It is a vessel for stories that were never meant to survive.

For years, you have supported us—by buying records, by showing up, by carrying these stories into your own homes and communities. Now, we are inviting you to go deeper.

Introducing The Keepers.

A fellowship program for those who understand that this work is not a transaction. It is a commitment. A commitment to the artists who pour their histories into grooves. A commitment to the ancestors who circled the Tree of Forgetfulness and refused to forget. A commitment to the Orishas of communication, who remind us that no message ever arrives intact—and that the journey itself is sacred.

Inspired by the words that have guided us from the beginning:

"There are men that fight one day and are good, others fight one year and they're better, and there are those who fight many years and are very good, but there are the ones who fight their whole lives and those are the indispensable ones." 

Bertolt Brecht

The Keepers are those indispensable ones.

Click here to visit the Keepers Options.

NEW RELEASE by Dub Manual - Planeta De Pedras  —  This Is Not a Traditional Release. This Is a Declaration.

The single is coming out this week Friday 10.04.2026. Planeta De Pedras by Dub Manual, in partnership with Tropical Diaspora Records, will be  available Bandcamp, and our website and all genocide supporting streaming platforms, 

But this is not simply a release announcement. This is a reaffirmation of how music should be made, shared, and owned.

Beyond Extraction. Toward Liberation.

The mainstream music industry has long operated on a logic of extraction — taking sounds, bodies, and stories from the Global South, processing them through Northern markets, and returning only a fraction of the value to those who created the source material. This is not new. This is the old world.

Tropical Diaspora Records was built on a different foundation.

Rooted in Pan-African ideology, the label understands that the African diaspora is not a market — it is a living, breathing network of resistance, creativity, and continuity. From Bahia to Berlin, from Kingston to Luanda, the pulse is the same. The task is not to extract from it, but to amplify within it.

This is why Planeta De Pedras exists not as a product to be owned by the label, but as a work to be shared in fair partnership with the artists who created it.

The track brings together:

🎸 Vitor Magall on guitars
🎸 Valdir Pereira on bass
🎹 Berna Vieira on melodica & production
🎤 Zé Cafofinho on vocals & rabeca
🎨 Artwork by Dj GArRinchA
🎚️ Mastered by Thiago Brigidio

Why this matters

Tropical Diaspora Records operates on a fair partnership model rooted in Pan-African ideology and Frantz Fanon's concept of the Third Way. Artists retain ownership of their work. Revenue is split transparently. No predatory contracts. No appropriation.

Planeta De Pedras is proof that music can be made differently.

Where to listen:

🎧 Bandcamp: [Dub Manual - Planeta De Pedras]
💿 Our website: [Dub Manual - Planeta De Pedras]

A note on mainstream platforms:  💀🌹 All major streaming platforms — through economic or political ties to genocidal and apartheid states — support genocide, oppression, and environmental destruction in one way or another. We are on these platforms for accessibility, but we strongly encourage you to listen on Bandcamp or our website, where your support goes directly to the artists.

 Mainstream digital platforms (Spotify, Apple Music, etc.): https://ffm.to/ky9ddkk