TREE OF LIFE (20 & IMC)

The 3rd single from Tall Paul & $kywalker's "Taurus The Bull" EP droppin on Thursday, May 8th, 2014. Mental Madness Wreckords. 

Tall Paul & $kywalker - "Dual Self" (Produced by Jake The Jeweler) #TaurusTheBull

One of this year’s best surprises has been Soul Retrieval, the debut solo album from Janine Rainforth, best known as the lead singer and co-founder of seminal post-punk funk outfit Maximum Joy. Ransom Note

Beautiful stuff – Zakia Sewell BBC 6 Music

This is the Maximum Joy rework of one of the tracks from Janine Rainforth’s debut solo album – 
Always With You Maximum Joy mix.  Reworked by Charlie Lleweliin, original founder member and drummer of Maximum Joy, the feel is moody and lush, neo-soul with spacious down-tempo summery beats,.

Janine Rainforth, lead singer and original co-founder of Bristol post-punk band Maximum Joy/MXMJoY released her debut solo album ‘Soul Retrieval’ on the 14th February via London Field Recordings. 

It’s been well received and hints at a new musical future for Rainforth. These ten laid back, pop-centric grooves with Rainforth’s distinctive vocal are buried deep in emotion and feeling. DJ’s such as Gilles Peterson (6 Music /Worldwide FM) and Zakia Sewell (BBC 6 Music) have played her new music and interviewed Janine about the new album.

Deserving to be cited alongside their musical counterparts Gang of Four, A Certain Ratio and ESG, Rainforth co-founded Maximum Joy aged 18 and their spiky, joyful post-punk funk rose up from the fertile Bristol scene of the late 70’s/early 80’s, inspired by the likes of punk, Albert Ayler, I-Roy, Funkadelic and politics. They released a number of cult classic singles including ‘Stretch’, ‘Silent Street’ and /White & Green Place’. The band toured extensively, releasing ‘Station MXJY’ in 1982 – an album part produced by the legendary Adrian Sherwood. Their final single – a cover of Timmy Thomas’ Why Can’t We Live Together & Man of Tribes – was produced by Dennis Bovell.

Rainforth’s career in music and with Maximum Joy was cut short by a near fatal serious violent sexual attack from within her close professional circle. 

After a number of decades out of the music industry, Rainforth slowly forged her way back into performing and recording, with her first solo music EP released back in 2014, then in 2015, she spearheaded the reforming of Maximum Joy to perform at Simple Things Festival with a new line-up. In 2019, under the name MXMJoY, she & Charlie Lewellin released ‘P.E.A.C.E.’ which received critical acclaim from media including Pitchfork, The Guardian and Crack among others.

Always With You Maximum Joy mix

DOWNLOAD: The Last Stand Mixtape, Vol. 1—a groundbreaking new compilation of Indigenous music, hip-hop, and spoken word featuring Indian Country's rising stars.

http://rpm.fm/music/download-the-last-stand-mixtape-vol-1/

Tanaya Winder - "Ain't No Sunshine"

+Gods Gift Remix + INDIGENIZE +THE WORLD +

Its hard to realize your true potential when facing extreme adversities and disparities in all forms. Its even harder to be yourself in the midst of hate, fear, and jealousy from your own. This project is a story about life as i knew it growing up in P.O.W camp #334 aka Pine Ridge, and how i found my true-self through musical expression and the realization that anything is possible!

(11) Still Here (Prod. By ElijahKampMusic)

This is a piece I wrote shortly after hearing about the Mount Polley Mine disaster. 

#ImperialNoMore
#StopMtPolley

The River Cries Out

A trip into the City, a night of dim cocktail lounges and foggy lights, just another story, just another day....

Foggy Lights

from the "Movimientos Mixtape".

https://chechrist.bandcamp.com/album/movimientos

tupamaru_vision

Charting passages through cycles of death and rebirth, hibernation and transformation, @MOB-BOUNCE’s new EP, Transformation, is a powerful story of reawakening, re-emergence, and redemption—of finding your strength and coming into your power. From the subterranean world of Journey to the Cave and the grimy, hip-hop stomp of Keys to the Forest, through the breezy trap-ballad Love is Giant, the album rises into the party-rockin reggaeton vibes of Sounds of You, and the soaring, epic album closer Gather Your Feathers. Transformation is a powerful journey from darkness to renewal, from introspection to expansion.

Transformation is the debut studio project from MOB BOUNCE and it elevates their sound to new heights. Featuring production from Anishinaabe beatmaker and DJ @BoogeytheBeat (Sebastian Gaskin, Snotty Nose Rez Kids), live drums by Kenton Loewen (Peregrine Falls, Dan Mangan), engineered and mixed by Alex Penney (Jay Rock), and mastered by Dan Weston (A Tribe Called Red, Jeremy Dutcher, Haviah Mighty), Transformation mixes analog and digital sounds to stunning effect, creating a hip-hop sonic world that is hypnotic, immersive, and fully their own. 

The album’s cover artwork is a beautiful transformation mask created by Heiltsuk artist Dean Hunt and Wuikinuxv and Klahoose artist Bracken Hanuse Corlett. Transformation masks mark transitions between forms—from human to spirit, animal to human, and the spaces in between. 

MOB BOUNCE channel that power through their music, transforming hip-hop into a force of spirit. 

“Mob Bounce is a gateway to a higher level of lyricism” - The Georgia Straight  

Transformation is out August 16, 2019 on RPM Records—the world’s first Indigenous owned and operated label for genre-crossing contemporary Indigenous music.

Love Is A Giant

native hip hop resistance representing from all directions...AKA anti-keystone XL RAP!
#savethepeaks #noloop202 #cryingearthriseup #rlblockade 

NDN R.A.P. (rebels against pipelines)

WATER PROTECTOR; Indigenous Hip-Hop artist, performer and producer. Original member of Culture Shock Camp est. 1997 oklahoma city. The Source mag. 1998' aug & 1999' for Culture Shock. Originator of the Indigenous Funk Soul Hip-Hop. Tribes: Pawnee/Seminole… Music for an open mind.

TREE OF LIFE (20 & IMC)

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