Tropical Diaspora Records® is a Berlin-based label (founded 2015) rooted in the sonic resistance of the African diaspora. Inspired by Frantz Fanon’s de-colonial praxis and Samuel Floyd’s work on Black musical memory, we reclaim the cultural narratives forged in the wake of the Middle Passage and Indigenous dispossession.
Emerging from Berlin’s 1990s underground, our founders—DJ Garrincha (São Paulo) and DR.Sócrates (Vigo)—center vinyl as a medium of insurgent memory. a woman shaped like the Atlantic, her hair flowing as the ocean currents—tells this story: of forced migrations, resilience, and the unbroken connection between continents. These are the narratives we amplify, it echoes Floyd’s "rings of signification": her hair, the ocean currents, carries the rhythms of survival and re-creation.
Fanon reminds us that colonialism mutilates history—so we reject extractive industry practices, instead amplifying diasporic artists as agents of their own sonic liberation. Through music, we confront the double consciousness of displacement and innovate within Black musical traditions, from Afro-Caribbean grooves to Indigenous futurism.
Tropical Diaspora® Records logo—a woman shaped like the Atlantic, her hair flowing as the ocean currents—tells this story: of forced migrations, resilience, and the unbroken connection between continents. These are the narratives we amplify.
