Spirit of Resistance

2013 was a very good year for Indigenous music. Here are our favourite reasons why it’s an incredible time to tune in. We’re still here—and we’re still making amazing music.

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The Best Indigenous Music of 2013

Rebel diaz

The Bring Mumia Home Playlist

political mix

Hyper shit

Spirit Warrior

JAMS

Cedar

Samantha is on tour throughout the summer - tickets available now: http://samanthacrain.com/tour-dates

Taken from the album 'Kid Face', out now on Full Time Hobby. Available on 2xCD, LP & high-quality digital download.

You can purchase the album from the following places:
Full Time Hobby: bit.ly/16kgyDH
Rough Trade: bit.ly/HnxV0t
Amazon: amzn.to/1d2fNnL
iTunes: bit.ly/1dB3RgH

iTunes

Samantha Crain - For the Miner

Featured on Democracy Now interview with Noam Chomsky at the beginning of the Wisconsin labor protests. 
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/2/17/democracy_uprising_in_the_usa_noam

Rebel Diaz - Otro Guerrillero Mixtape Vol. 2 - 01 Which Side Are You On-

Remix from Rebel Diaz full length debut "Radical Dilemma". 

Which Side Are You On? Remix (feat. dead prez, Rakaa Iriscience)

VIDEO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyMNYvkNfdY

Rest in power, Nelson Mandela! July 18, 1918 - December 5, 2013.

"It was this desire for the freedom of my people to live their lives with dignity and self-respect that animated my life, that transformed a frightened young man into a bold one, that drove a law-abiding attorney to become a criminal, that turned a family-loving husband into a man without a home, that forced a life-loving man to live like a monk. I am no more virtuous or self-sacrificing than the next man, but I found that I could not even enjoy the poor and limited freedoms I was allowed when I knew my people were not free. Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.

"The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning.

"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."

Rest in power to one of the greatest revolutionaries and political strategists of our time, a hero of the ongoing global struggle against apartheid, colonialism, racism and imperialism. May his memory inspire us to struggle harder and live stronger. Tears of joy for a life fully lived.

Jasiri X - Mandela (Listen To What The Drums Say) [prod Agent of Change]

"Bring Mumia Home" Come see me perform along with M1, Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, Lauren Hill, Squala Orphan and others in Philadelphia, PA at the Festival of life block party at Church of the avocate 1801 Diamone St. on April 24th-26th 2014. This is in celebration of Mumia Jamals 60th Bday and to catapult the movement to release Mumia Abu Jamal. Song will be featured on mix tapes and distributes to support the effort to educate and politicize the community about Mumia's innocence and the need to free all political prisoners, and the end of the racist policing and mass incarceration of people of color, which feeds the prison industrial complex. BLACK KINGS!

Free 'em All "Bring Mumia Home" Prod By Kenard Medina

Fawn and Dallas - "Out Of Love"

SAVAGE FAMILY - The Resurection (THE REMIX).mp3

Download this off my mixtape The Pursuit that i just dropped!! The Pursuit: http://www.datpiff.com/mixtapes-detail.php?id=610176
TWITTER: https://twitter.com/IvanBnw

Sample from KeysnKrates 

Ivan B - She Gotta Stay

Song Sampled: 
"Playing For Keeps"-Elle King

Lonely Road Lyrics:

Intro:
The hollow sound is ringing where your heart used to be.
Have you found that your admiration will never set you free?
Get your lies prepared, you're next in line for judgement day, now, aren't you praying, aren't you begging that you're anyone else?

Verse 1:
Guess who it is? Its the best in the biz
Amber be alert cuz they checkin for the kid
Hendersin yeah I'm back just doing what I do
I'm bored with ya games I suggest you get a clue
Yeah it's like they ever knew, I could spit it so precise 
Bet that I'm all up in they head like lice
I'll never take it back I aint taking your advice
And they know what I mean muthafucka cuz I'm nice
Well I got what you need
And It might sound conceited but I will not concede 
I aint fucking with Ruxin I'm way outta ya league 
I aint messing with you scrubs ya thats word to doctor Reid
So close muthafucka I can taste it
Y'all don't see the vision, you should get some lasik
Feeling so good you could say I'm on that Mase shit
It came from the heart so thats why I had to pace it

Breakdown:
You prayed to have your name scattered on the lips of the young.
Now, you claim that it's you on the tips of their tongue.
And if you're proud of what you had to kill to get your thrill, well, I bet it stings to give up everything and realize that they don't want you.

Chorus:
It's a lonely road where the forgotten go where your misery finds its company.
(whoa-oh-oh-ow)
It's a long way down to the sacred ground where the reaper's playing for keeps


Verse 2:
I don't play, something like a mascot
And I'm focused treat me like a ascot
Coming for your neck, yeah I'm coming for respect
I aint fucking with ya crew you got jokers like a deck
What the fuck do you expect? for me to just resign?
While you decline, go in circles like revine
I sat back muthafucka call it recline
Paid the cost to be the boss no such thing as free time
If you think I'll take a seat but instead I make a beat
Thats the way I'm making heat
And I hit the ground running you would probably break ya feet
And I'm coming for the fame muthafucka watch me skeet
I remember when they didn't need me
Now they wouldn't dare try to leave me
Cuz you know the kid is spitting ruthless
So lock Compton in the 80's right now, rap game well this shit is so eazy


Breakdown:
You prayed to have your name scattered on the lips of the young.
Now, you claim that it's you on the tips of their tongue.
And if you're proud of what you had to kill to get your thrill, well, I bet it stings to give up everything and realize that they don't want you.

Chorus x2:
It's a lonely road where the forgotten go where your misery finds its company.
(whoa-oh-oh-ow)
It's a long way down to the sacred ground where the reaper's playing for keeps

Buy The Original Song

Lonely Road (Prod. Hendersin)

H G S Savage Family Ancestors Family

This week's installment of our weekly www.warriorwednesdayz.com series is craaaaazy! No really, it's called "Craazy" and it features our comrade and brother in the struggle, C-Rayz Walz. Often times, when one questions the system we live in, when one questions the inequality that surrounds us, and fights for true peace with justice, we are called 'crazy' by the those that think a better tomorrow is not possible. This is for all the dreamers, all the risk takers, all those diagnosed with ADD, those brilliant young people misunderstood by the system, for all of our people who say we must be realistic... and do the impossible!

CRAAZY (feat. C-Rayz Walz)

www.warriorwednesdayz.com

Im An Alien Produced by G1 of Rebel Diaz

Check it out yall!! For our 5th week of Warrior Wednesdayz we got a new joint off the upcoming Radical Dilemma album. Fresh from our European Tour we bring you "Im An Alien" inspired by our travels and the struggles of the students of Tucson, Arizona. Check it out. Feedback is appreciated. Share with the masses!

Im An Alien

Identity, oppression, struggle and just trying to do you as a queer woman of African Descent

The race

SAVAGE FAMILY - The Resurection (THE REMIX)

This is the self-titled debut album of the duo, Mother Nature, consisting of Klevah and T.R.U.T.H
- Executive Producer: F.W.Y.T.A.I.
- Additional production: Rokmore of TheGr8Thinkaz
- Engineer: James Treichler 
- Vocals recorded by: Larry Gates (Curb Service)

Say Her Name (prod. Skylar Crank)

04 Aztlan Underground   Obsolete Man

FREE DOWNLOAD: Rebel Diaz - Never A Prisoner (prod Agent of Change)

AWESOME LIVE VERSION OF THIS SIGNATURE TRACK. FUCKING CRANK IT UP & ENJOY

"THE BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS" LIVE @ THE SMOKEOUT 2000

Incubus- Drive

Savage Family Seowa - "Carry On" (produced by Blue Earth)

CHICAGO TEACHERS

Subversive Spiritual Underground Musical Warriors  &  Sworn Ceremonial Protectors  of Mother Earth . AZTLAN UNDERGROUND continue to wage  war against  social injustice, discrimination,  and the Economical colonization of The America’s by releasing a Rebellious  Insurgent Message directed  toward the masses  entitled  “ Vote For No One.” The message is Loud and  clear and straight to the point, “VOTE FOR NO ONE!” By coming together and Taking a Stand, all the corrupt politicians  along with their special interests will  no longer be able to ignore the  a message of the people.  By joining Aztlan Underground this November with the battle cry “VOTE For No One.”   Aztlan Underground will embark on  a courageous battle to raise awareness and take on the System  of  Deceit that has been imposed on us all , and    that has shackled all Americans with  poverty, sickness and complete despair, all in the name of Greed.
As the November Electoral Process makes its way and as we embark on the Sacred Autumn Equinox, Aztlan Underground launches a first strike by sounding the battle cry and declaring   “VOTE FOR NO ONE!”  Bravely taking a stand and defying the falsehood of The November Presidential Election. And in true guerrilla warfare fashion Aztlan Underground unleash to the world  a no holds barred message that will kick start the beginning of The Revolution and Raise a New Awakening in us all.

Vote For Nobody

REBEL DIAZ JOIN GAT TURNER & VIVA FIDEL ON THIS POWERFUL COLLAB SONG RECORDED DURING 'HURRICANE SANDY' IN BX, NY REFLECTING ON THE TRUE MEANING OF  'THE THANKSTAKING'

"THE THANKSTAKING" FEAT. REBEL DIAZ, GAT TURNER & VIVA FIDEL

War Paint-Ziggy Zag ft. Savage Family

In solidarity with Idle No More and Chief Theresa Spence.

Follow on Twiiter #idlenomore ; 
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23idlenomore&src=hash

Wab Kinew: Idle No More Is Not Just An Indian Thing
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/wab-kinew/idle-no-more-canada_b_2316098.html

Chelsea Vowel: http://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/12/11/the-natives-are-restless-wondering-why/

Sample credit: Black Bear (Tribal Spirit Records)
Photo credit: Blaire Russel
Download our album for free: www.electricpowwow.com 

The Road

A Tribe Called Red - The Road

The new song is called "In Realignment". This release is dedicated to the end of the Mayan long count. Obviously not the end of the world rather a time of renewal. A time of realignment.  This is the beginning of a new era, a time of transition and reflection. A time to look within and open your mind and heart to endless possibilities....the dawn awaits...

In Realignment

Dedicated to Hugo Chávez Frias. We carry on in his name! 

Rebel Diaz - Work Like Chavez (prod Agent of Change)

INDIGENOUS LOS ANGELES BASED BAND AZTLAN UNDERGROUND HONORS SPRING EQUINOX WITH NEW SONG, ETERNAL

 

Los Angeles, CA (March 20, 2013): Indigenous hip-hop and post-punk rock band Aztlan Underground honors the re-emergence of the spring by releasing their newest single Eternal, on the spring equinox, March 20, 2013. The release of Eternal, is another addition to the band's seasonal series honoring celestial movements and the rhythms of nature. The single is a follow up to their groundbreaking winter solstice release entitled In Realignment and will be available as a soft-launch on their soundcloud and youtube pages.

 

The new single, engineered and co-produced by Yaotl MC 10 Eagle, continues in the creative vein of what Aztlan Underground calls Native Noise Core.The track is a textural soundscape of off-beat rhythms and poetic drones of love for life. When asked about their influences in creating this new sub-genre, the band members offer up the following quote:

 

"Glorious preceded by the futurist poets and audio painters beautiful with violence daring with rebellion and illuminous with the animation of genius…..the art of noise" - Francesco Ballila Pratella (Oct. 11, 1910)

The spring equinox witnesses the equal balance of day and light. For many ancient cultures it represents the male and female forces, procreation, and new beginnings. The spring brings an outburst of life and a chance to begin again. According to the Mayan "Tzolkin" calendar, the spring equinox supports the idea of renewal with greater wisdom and a stronger grasp toward one’s purpose.
 

Lyrics

Primavera

La vida eterna

Conexiones fraternal

Another turn

Rejoice

Concrete Rebirth

Hummingbird tonalli

Movement infinite

With or without humyns

 

About Aztlan Underground

 

Aztlan Underground’s music reveals the unrestrained voices of global indigenous peoples combining hypnotic Native rhythms with modern industrial sounds. For 20 years, they have cultivated a grassroots audience across the world from Europe to Australia and Canada to South America. At home, they are an institution influencing a new generation of musicians, bands, and free-thinkers. They challenge their audience to look within, to their own life-giving forces, in order to reach their full human potential.

 

Aztlan Underground has independently produced and distributed three albums: Decolonize (1995), Sub-Verses (2001), and the self-titled album Aztlan Underground (2009). The band’s albums reflect a process of self-discovery and realization evolving from the anger of Decolonize to the self-titled album featuring an evolution towards a more global, humanitarian struggle.

 

Aztlan Undergrounds seasonal series releases include: Our Nature (Spring Equinox 2012), Sacred Arrow Sun (Summer Solstice 2012), Vote for Nobody (Autumn Equinox 2012), and In Realignment (Winter Solstice 2012).

 

Website: www.aztlanunderground.net

Facebook: www.facebook.com/aztlanunderground

Soundcloud:

YouTube:

 

**All Aztlan Underground albums are available on iTunes.
***Albums and select downloadable songs are available to press upon request.
 

Aztlan Underground is:
Joe "Peps" (Comanche*): bass, rattles, Native American wood and clay flutes
Caxo (Huichol-Mexica*): drums
Yaotl (Raramuri/Mazahua*): vocals, Indigenous percussion
*Refers to tribal affiliation.
 

Management: Spiral NRG - (415) 519 8514
Booking: AUG - (818) 219-3441
 

Press Contact:
mfrias@SpiralNRG.com
www.aztlanunderground.net