Pumba (Sublte Mind Remix)

Pumba feat. Evan Hatfield (Subtle Mind Remix)

I will never understand what it means to be a person of color, but I can do my best to empathize with the people who have lived under much marginalization and oppression due to their race. I want to recognize that I use samples and take inspiration from cultures all around the world to create my music. My genre is a blend of my own creativity and that of other musicians, particularly people of color, that have had a profound influence on music since the dawn of time. In particular, African people have shaped almost every genre of music known to man. I also take inspiration from Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and many other cultures to create the music that I make.

Umoja is the swahili word for Unity—meaning to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race. This song incorporates Mongolian throat sining and Senegalese vocals with trap 808s to create a really fun and high energy song. French is the Senegal national language, and there are over 30 languages spoken in Senegal. So, I chose the Swahili word Umoja for this song to declare that the music that I create is a symbol for unity across borders and across race. I never knew that throat singing and African singing could be so incredible together—and what an amazing world we live in where this is even a possibility.

All of my music, and this song in particular, is a tribute to people of color across the world who have given me the ability to use the incredible musical vocabulary and instruments from their cultures. I want to explicitly express my immense gratitude and appreciation for these people who have shared and given the rights to their music to use in my own creative process. 

I choose to use my undeniable privilege to do my best to make the world a better place for everyone around me regardless of their race or nationality. Everyday I look to see how I can be better for everyone around me and how I can serve the planet more. 

If you are a white musician I would encourage you to also recognize where your music comes from and the people that made it possible for you to create what you create. May we all continue to unify and to not let the powers that be tear us apart and make us villainize one another. With love, respect, and gratitude.

Umoja

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Where does your love go?
It's always going somewhere.

[Violin by Sam Wexler - samuelwexler.tumblr.com]

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Where Does Your Love Go

Mixed By Michael Klicos
Mastered by Subvert
Artwork: Nate Gonzalez at The Moon Life
This particular mix features snippets of Warsaw Village Band, Master of Work, Dead Can Dance. 

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Been Hearing Voices

Mixed By Michael Klicos
Mastered By Subvert Mastering
Artwork by Nate Gonzalez at The Moon Life

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Aqcic - Wardia (SOOHAN Remix)

Melo.Nade - Hindsight (Kousk Remix)

Fresh off a year of extensive coast-to-coast touring, SOOHAN returns with COLLECTIVE EFFERVESCENCE, a new album of found and remixed material that showcases his most receptive tracks from the year prior. Collective Effervescence is named for the sociological concept coined by Èmile Durkheim, which generally states that when people come together as communities, they retain the ability to act as one.

Such is the truth of how your bodies all over North America responded to this visceral selection of Soohan's newest remixes and edits, often meant directly for festival crowds. Worldly rhythms abound as Soohan introduces you to the likes of Adèle & Zalem, A-WA, Sukhwinder Singh & Vijay Prakash, and Ana Tijoux through 808-tinged lenses. Interspersed are moments of re-interpreted pop genius. A supercut of Missy Elliot's hardest lines runs atop a selection of Timbaland's best cuts, while elsewhere, Weezer meets Passion Pit and bass-heavy beat patterns straight from the Bay area. 

Equal parts a must-have for the day-ones and the perfect entry port into Soohan's world of remixed art from around the world, a continued journey of musical discovery.

Mixdown: Michael Klicos
Mastering: Subvert Central Mastering
Artwork: Mugwort Design

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Missy Tribute

Strand 1

Dov1 & An-ten-nae - Shango

Mixing: David Shuhandz
Mastering: Subvert Central
Artwork: Jeremiah Christo

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Take me Back to Cairo - Karim Shukry (1961)(SOOHAN Remix)

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