TROPICAL DIASPORA® residencies

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Local Zine & Bookmakers Fair followed by V.I.P. (Vagabunds in Power) Take Over Dance Residency at Vagabund Brauerei Berlin Wedding • Edition 2

February 2 @ 20:00 - February 3 @ 02:00 CET

The Residency

Tropical Diaspora Records DJ Collective is about to start a new music curation residency at the Vagabund Brauerei in Berlin Wedding. We call this residency V.I.P. in reference to last Fela Kuti´s Africa 70 concert in the Berliner Philharmonic 1978 where Fela introduce the real meaning of V.I.P.,  Vagabonds In Power.

Vagabond is like the wandering proletarian with no fixed home but who can claim the world as a home. Vagabond is like the black fugitive who navigates the swamp guided by the native in search of the Quilombo. Let us initiate a vagabond journey with Tropical Diaspora Records and celebrate the spirit of our ancestors at Vagabund Brauerei in the heart of Rote Wedding.

The Specials

Please join us for the second lit market at Vagabund Brauerei! Dozens of established local publishers, radical zinemakers, and other music & media pop-ups will grace the presence of the Vagabund Kesselhaus on the afternoon of Sunday, February. Here is the tentative schedule:

12:00 – Market opens, including lunch & drinks
12:30 – Ticketed zinemaking workshop held upstairs. Tickets available from a sliding solidarity scale of 10-30+ EUR here.
13:00 – Vinyl set by Lady Pink Panther
14:00 – Food Pop-up begins with Grilly Grilly Soup Soup
15:00 – Open decks, bring your flashdrive or a few vinyls with you to participate. This is also a great place to learn if you’ve wanted to try spinning records, just ask us!
16:00 – The first reading of Arbors: a community-stitched snapshot of collective scribings from the Read Wedding Open Mic in Wedding. Free RSVP or optional donation / zine pre-order HERE.
18:00 – Market close, DJ sets by Tropical Diaspora Records begins the afterparty

The exhibitors include: textur mag, Errant Journal, Krater Books, SAND Journal, FLORETS Magazine, Maria Canga & our afterparty hosts, Tropical Diaspora Records.

If you are looking to explore the independent and limited-print zine scene in Berlin, this is the market for you!

Fittingly for this Berlin Writers meetup group, it would also be incredible to see some connections made at this fair — could your work be printed in one of the publications after meeting the faces behind them at this market? Will the work you discover inspire your next works for performance or print? Come by and find out!

Tropical Diaspora Records will be with on the spot with the PopUP Store with our releases on vinyl and all the SWAG available.

The Dance Floor Local Zine & Bookmakers Fair (followed by Afterparty)

FREE & ALL VINYL the hottest Political consciousness DANCE FLOR IN TOWN
with tropical AFRO brazil Latin funk soul disco grooves
NEEDLES DROP at 8 pm don’t miss it.

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Forging Musical Herstory!

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

Like so many other things in the small universe of Tropical Diaspora® Records our partnerships are the result of travels and personal connections. In fact, its meaning conveys just that: the creation of human relations based on love and care, understanding, respect and passionate discussions around the topics that move us. Djs Garrincha and Dr. Sócrates do exactly this with a case full of records traveling across the borders of the World. Dj Garrincha’s trips have taken him to meet artists and ignite relations that are meant to last. It can be Johannesburg, Chicago, São Paulo, Medellin, Berlin, Barcelona, Olinda or San Juan. So here few of our Partners World Wide

 

A Sanctuary for Music Lovers

Since its inception in 2019, Bantu Records has become a sanctuary for discerning listeners. Inspired by the legendary Hugh Masekela and the infectious energy of township jazz, the store offers a platform for discovery and exploration. It's a space where the past, present, and future of music converge, creating a vibrant and immersive experience.

 

 

Cultural Production beyond and above

...Com sabença profunda irei cantando Altos feitos da gente luminosa... 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

Music Production & Creation

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

Independent Journalistic Narrative

Channel of the Journalist Bob Fernandes. Our Partner for news and information with a Journalistic 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.

 

End Apartheid and Settler Colonialism.

Stop Genocide, Apartheid and Settler Colonialism Tropical Diaspora Records® position facing apartheid and settler-colonialism. Oppression forces in the region are occupying, stealing and colonizing Palestinian land, an apartheid system is discriminating against Palestinian citizens in the region 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 oppression forces to comply with international law.

Free Palestine! End Apartheid and Settler Colonialism. 🍉#FP🍉

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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