This is a mixtape I made for Tad Nakamura’s documentary A Song For Ourselves.

The film documents the life of Chris Iijima, a Japanese American musician, activist, educator, and father, who’s music was the soundtrack for the Asian American movement in the late 60s, early 70s.

For the mixtape, I arranged Chris’s music along with Blue Scholars, Bambu, Kiwi, and Native Guns songs, interwoven with sound bites from the movie. We also did exclusive remixes which sample Chris’s music and feature verses from Geo, Bam, and Kiwi.

Tracklist:
1. Iijima, Miyamoto, Chin – “We Are The Children” (Intro)
2. Blue Scholars – “Cornerstone”
3. Native Guns – “Slave Thinking”
4. Native Guns feat. Geologic – “Agitation Propaganda”
5. Iijima, Miyamoto, Chin – “Jonathan Jackson”
6. Bambu – “When Will The Time Come?” prod. by Will Bracy
7. Kiwi – “Gaza 2 Oakland” prod. by DJ Phatrick
8. Blue Scholars – “Back Home”
9. Chris Iijima – “Vietnamese Lament (Live)”
10. Iijima, Miyamoto, Chin – “War Of The Flea” (Senz of Depth Remix ft. Bambu)
11. Bambu – “Chairman Mao” (Paper Planes edit)
12. Blue Scholars – “Fire For The People”
13. Kiwi – “Cause”
14. Native Guns feat. Geologic – “Said It” (Asi Remix)
15. Iijima, Miyamoto, Chin – Divide & Conquer (Fatgums Remix ft. Geologic, Kiwi, & Bambu)
16. Chris Iijima Soliloquy
17. Kiwi – “Imagine”
18. Bambu – “Seven Months”
19. Blue Scholars – “Life and Debt”

A Song For Ourselves Mixtape

Sunchoke WIP

Kero Kero Bonito - Flamingo

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Monday

Frank Ocean - Nights

Vinyl / Stream: chillhop.lnk.to/winter2017Ba

We close off a great year for Chillhop with 21 cozy Winter themed tracks by your favorite producers. Let this release be the soundtrack for the holidays and cozy season!
credits
released December 11, 2017

Mastering by Birocratic
Artwork by marvinbruin.com

Artists:
Juan RIOS » @juan-rios-beats
Nymano » @nymano
saib. » @saib_eats
Underbelly » @djunderbelly
Joey Pecoraro » @joeypecoraro
leavv » @leavv
Aso » @aricogle
arbour » @arbour-eat-them
Kupla » @kuplasound
Philanthrope » @philanthrope1
Idealism » @idealismus
psalm/trees » @psalm-trees
Robot Orchestra » @robotorchestra
Ian Ewing » @ianewingmke
J'san » @iamjsan
Birocratic » @birocratic
The Breed » @the_breed
tusken » @tusken_ibk
B-Side » @b-side-production
Flitz&Suppe » @flitzsuppe
invention » @invention
Brock Berrigan » @brockberrigan

Vinyl/Stream

Juan RIOS - Perenne

Been working on some tracks with one of my favorite producers out there, j'san! We can now announce that there will be a Kupla x j'san project coming out real soon. This is the first teaser from that project. :)Hope you enjoy it.

Kupla X j'san - Fireflies

Brother & Glass 7-5.2

Why you seem so sad all the time?
Ask and I won't lie
I've been disassembled for so long,
I can't remember, it's not right
But oh, I want to
Dance with you tonight

I'm shaking, can't I give the things I need?
I sow me like a seed because I want
Got so patient
I'm not crying 'cause you're gone

How's it when you wake every day?
Can you hear what I can't say?
I still need that match lit in my lungs
I'm not gonna make you stay
But oh, I want you

Ask me now why I want to go
Sunk my bones so low, they turned to steel
Strong and hollow
It's not time for how I feel

In June, let's have a bonfire
I'll throw off my poetic sleeves and bare my muscled arms
All the work that I had worn
Make me look into your eyes some way I've never done
Take me into shore there
Where I climbed back up the banks, into the land
The grass is only waist-high

Sound and fury
You slow down for me
Everything that I've tried
Construct a new morning
Or say that I'm weary
Come on, let's have a bonfire

Sow / Draft

the day damsy and yuuto got in the stu and made history without even knowing it. boom.

Withdraw - ft. Damsy (single)

A TALK


New-wave dream pop, post-ironic afro-punk, big-band beach jam, shoe-gaze summer blues, bi-polar boy band bonanzas, disco dub, chill-wave, spoken-word poetry rave, Ethiopian jazz fusion, dreadlock drum circle, Delta-basin blues, folk-metal friend-rock faux pas, speed metal social network disaster, krunk, punk, skunk-pop, teen-bop, hip-hop highland scotch square dance, line dance, break dance, funky house, future garage, Gamelan gender bender, glam metal, glitch wave, grind core, girl band, boy-toy, heavy metal, jitterbug jungle, reggae, soul, slow-mo, scatter-ska, skittle core, riddle core, fiddle horror grind-gore, soft-shell pole-dance, role-play-Canto-pop-romantic-slow-dance-stutter-core, and bang-on-a-can new music marathon.

Sunchoke WIP

Jake Nikolas

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