Berlin, Olinda, Apr 10,2026 [TDR®]: Planeta De Pedras Is Here — But This Is Not a Traditional Release. This Is a Declaration.

The single is out. Planeta De Pedras by Dub Manual, in partnership with Tropical Diaspora Records, is now available on all streaming platforms, Bandcamp, and our website.

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 Third Way: A Fanonian Approach to Music

In his work on decolonization, Frantz Fanon spoke of a Third Way — a path that rejects both the oppressive structures of the colonizer and the reactive traps of mimicry. A way forward that is self-determined, autonomous, and rooted in the material reality of the oppressed.

Tropical Diaspora Records applies this logic to music.

We do not sign artists to predatory contracts.
We do not claim ownership of their masters.
We do not take publishing without fair return.

Instead, we work on a model of transparent, horizontal partnership:

• Artists retain ownership of their work.

• Revenue is split fairly, with no hidden deductions.

• Distribution is handled collectively, but control remains with the creators.

• The label exists to serve the artist — not the other way around.

This is the Third Way in practice. Not charity. Not exploitation. Mutual liberation.

Planeta De Pedras: A Case Study in Fair Collaboration

On Planeta De Pedras, you hear the result of this philosophy:

Guitars: Vitor Magall
Bass: Valdir Pereira
Melodica & Production: Berna Vieira
Vocals & Rabeca: Zé Cafofinho
Artwork: Dj GArRinchA
Mastered by: Thiago Brigidio
Label: Tropical Diaspora Records

Release Date: April 10, 2026

Each artist brought their full voice to the track. Each artist retains their rights. Each artist was compensated fairly and transparently. No one was asked to sign away their future.

The music business has long survived on appropriation — taking from Black and Brown artists, repackaging, and selling back. Tropical Diaspora Records refuses that model.

We are not here to take. We are here to build.

Where to Find Planeta De Pedras

The single is now available on:

All streaming platforms — https://ffm.to/ky9ddkk
Bandcamp — https://dub-manual.bandcamp.com/track/planeta-de-pedras
Our website — https://www.tdrgo.co/planeta-de-pedras

The full vinyl LP will follow after all digital singles are released — pressed in limited quantity, owned by the artists, distributed with care.

A Final Word

Frantz Fanon wrote that "each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity."

Our mission is clear: to produce and release music without reproducing the colonial logic of the industry. To support independent artists without owning them. To distribute globally without extracting locally.

Planeta De Pedras is one small step in that direction. But it is a step taken with intention, with solidarity, and with the sound system turned all the way up.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for supporting fair music.

Now turn it up. Let the frequency do its work.

Tropical Diaspora Records / Dub Manual
Pan-African. Anti-Appropriation. Fair Partnership. The Third Way.

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