A follow up to "Yacht Music for Yacht People", this set follows the same ebb and flow of that set.  Yacht Rock is more than just smooth rock from the 70s and 80s, it is a reimagining of a genre that requires continuous exploration.  This is my reinterpretation of that genre. Features remixes from Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Peter Gabriel, The Police, David Bowie, Billy Idol, Depeche Mode, and Queen.

The Yacht Rock Series

Drop It Like It's Yacht

For this installment of my chill series I found inspiration the moment I heard a vocodered voice singing Hotel California in the Luxxury edit. A week later I heard AfroQBen's amazing remix of Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith and I was off to the races. Being a New Wave kid as a teen I didn't get into many of these songs until my adult years and yet somehow I listen to this mix and it makes me feel like a teenager again. 

It's my birthday so please enjoy my birthday present to you!

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01 David Bowie - Major Tom (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)
02 Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)
03 Eagles - Hotel California (Luxxury Edit)
04 Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion (AfroQBen Remix)
05 Bee Gees - Travolta Fever (Luxxury Edit)
06 Blondie - Rapture (Luxxury Edit) 
07 David Bowie - Golden Years (Luxxury Edit)
08 Led Zeppelin - Ramble On (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)
09 Simon & Garfunkle - The Sound of Garfunkle (Luxxury Edit)
10 80s Child - I Can’t Go For That
11 Sleazy McQueen - Rikki Don’t Lose My Number
12 Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)
13 T-Rex - Get It On (Virgin Magnetic Material Remix)
14 Sleazy McQueen - Mrs. Vanderbilt (Sleazy McQueen Re-Edit)
15 Big M - All Over Now

My Definition of Chill Vol. 6 Jukebox Hero

Some Like it Yacht is the final release of the Yacht Series trilogy. What started out as a fun exploration of 70s and 80s covers remixed and mashups, has become an institution by itself. This set was commissioned by Drea to celebrate her birthday.

Yacht Sessions

Some Like It Yacht

I'm Ted Koppel

Never Say A Word

This track is from the album Moonshot and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/manomusic

Ready to Fly

Hell Y'all Ain't Talmbout:  a Krip-Hop anthology of Women, Femmes & Warriors, curated by Vita E Cleveland and Lisa Ganser
mixtape mastered by Vita E
21 tracks, March 30, 2019 release

this is the result of a three year project by Vita E and Lisa as a response to the invite by Krip-Hop Nation's Leroy Moore, to curate a compilation of "Disabled Womens" music.  Thank you to all the Disabled Women, Disabled Femmes, and Disabled Warriors making music.  including and not exclusive to they/them/their, she/her 
savor every track
it's all of Us, or none of Us, flat out.

0:00 Taurean (Imani_Atlantic) 
3:29 Last Soil (Sol Patches feat. Andre, EMEKA, Chaski) 
8:26 Intro (Aj420)
9:24 Head Up High (Young Ant) 
12:29 Plan B (Aj420)
15:37 Prideteenth The American Plantation Intro//Ancient Regime (Chyrsalisamidst)
16:36 Da World (Shazz) 
18:52 Emerald Lion (Irkalla Lustre) 
24:55 Shots Thru the Wall (Earth Rituals is Imani_Atlantic, Abstract Identity & AK Sampson) 
28:24 Human (Vita E. Feat. Kat SoPoetic) 
35:14 Empty Handed (Collander) 
37:13 Different Faces (Aj420) 
40:41 Jaded (Be Steadwell) 
45:43 Still Here (Rowan Katz) 
51:22 Underground (Kimya Dawson) 
55:11 Chilling Me Out (Fire Officer Donald is Heather Dunn, Lisa Ganser, Sammy Harvell, Jakob Tiger) 
57:53 Cave of Treasures (The Beauty is Nomy Lamm, Sam Gray, Ben Lucal) 
1:00:48 It’s Hard Out Here for a Gimp (Wheelchair Sportscamp) 
1:04:12 Wicked Attraction (Maya Songbird) 
1:07:24 Death and the Demimonde (Chrysalisamidst) 
1:09:14 Hell Y’all Ain’t Talmbout (Vita E.)

artwork by Inés Ixierda
About the image :  The design for the cover of this fierce project is from my piece "Gutter Femme, " A self portrait about  claiming my own sassy, broke, rough around the edges, tough as nails femme after I lost my front teeth. 
 
Inés Ixierda is a queer Bolivian artist and designer in Oakland, California. She is currently drawing a graphic narrative, growing a medicine garden, and creating enchanted orthopedics.

Hell Y'all Ain't Talmbout title track
NEW MUSIC: VITA E CLEVELAND STANDS UP FOR BLACK TRANS LIVES IN “HELL Y’ALL AIN’T TALMBOUT” #SOUNDCHECK by Nathan Leigh, AFROPUNK
With undeniable urgency, Vita Elizabeth Cleveland responds to Janelle Monae’s “Hell You Talmbout.” Her “Hell Y’all Ain’t Talmbout” lays out clearly the criticism that the current epidemic of transphobic violence is chronically omitted in discussion of Black Lives Matter. Vita E’s track uses Monae’s song as a jumping off point to deliver a powerful lesson in solidarity: “It’s all of us or none of us, flat out.” “Hell Y’All Ain’t Talmbout” ends listing 13 of the black trans women killed so far in 2015 with a declaration “We will NOT be erased! We will NOT stop!”
https://afropunk.com/2015/09/new-music-vita-e-cleveland-stands-up-for-black-trans-lives-in-hell-yall-aint-talmbout-soundcheck/ 

Originally from Cleveland, OH, Vita E. has been surrounded by the power of art since childhood. From then on, they made a pledge that they would use the art that inspired them to influence thought, change, and freedom to exist without apology. This pledge would lead to her life as a percussionist, educator, poet, vocalist, and activist. Vita’s passion as a Black Trans Femme artist has led to many milestones. She’s recently finished a summer-long role as percussionist, mentor, and vocalist for the Creede Repertory Theatre, and drummer for the full-stage debut of the hip-hop musical, Once Upon a Rhyme.

Imani_Atlantic is an artist-scientist-activist who is currently spending her time traveling through The Middle Passage and documenting stories of Black Bliss throughout the Diaspora. Imani_Atlantic uses podcasts, collage, and electronic music production as a way to share uplifting narratives and affirm the lives and brilliance of folx on the margin.

Sol Patches. They/Them, Gender-Abolitionist. Sol Patches born and raised on south side and north side of Chicago. https://solpatches.bandcamp.com/ 

more bios and links to come!!!

Hell Y'all Ain't Talmbout:  a Krip-Hop Anthology of Women Femmes & Warriors - Mixtape

Today's the Day (2012)

Whitney Houston vs Richard Wagner vs Igor Stravinsky

How Will I Know - Rheingold Firebird Mix

As the quarantine due to covid 19 enters it's third week, this Facebook livestream set was recorded in celebration of two amazing people, Tony and David.  We were supposed to have a proper party in San Francisco, but instead we got put on our best outfits for a zoom party.  Yacht music has always been one of my favorites, although I never owned a yacht, but one can dream.

How Will I Know - Rheingold Firebird Mix

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