Planeta De Pedras

Dub Manual returns in partnership with Berliner label Tropical Diaspora Records, delivering a new single that captures the collision between analog weight and cosmic scale. Building on the cross-continental dialogue that has defined the project, Planeta De Pedras finds its center at the border between worlds: dense tropical jungle giving way to arid desert, the familiar meeting the unknown, a lighthouse fitted with speaker stacks standing as both beacon and weapon.

Together, they have created something that moves with purpose—a track designed not just to be heard but to be felt. The kind of music that demands the full range of an analog system, that reveals itself in the warmth of vinyl, that exists as a physical object as much as a sonic one.

Planeta De Pedras arrives as the latest digital single in a series leading up to the full LP release on vinyl. Each single serves as a fragment of a larger picture—a piece of the whole that will only fully reveal itself when the album takes its final form. The vinyl edition will bring together all tracks in their complete state, pressed for the warmth, depth, and ritual that only the analog format can provide.

The single is out now on all digital platforms. The vinyl follows when the sequence is complete.

Until then, turn it up. Let the frequency do its work.

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]

Where to buy: here

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

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