People's Potential Unlimited (PPU) is a very special record label in DC known for discovering and reissuing some of the weirdest and best ultra-rare boogie, funk, and other dance music from the 70s, 80s, 90s as well as a new generation of beat-makers who draw inspiration from these strange worlds of sound.

Started by music fiend Andrew Morgan and operated out of his basement, PPU’s is a world that re-imagines funk as outsider art and cosmic-boogie as a modern variant of folk music. What would it be like if your school janitor made rap music in the broom closet or if someone in middle management still nursed a dream of being the next El Debarge? The label’s roster includes Robbie M., Dwight Sykes, Evans Pyramid, George Franklin Smallwood, Uku Kuut—names found on demo tapes abandoned to time, or else unearthed online. But PPU also pushes the present into the future. Newest members of the PPU family include DC favorite sons Beautiful Swimmers,  Dreamcastmoe, King Pari, PPU VHS Video mulcher Luke Wyatt, LA beathead Benedek, Vancouver space cadets Pender Street Steppers and Miami sound machine Mickey de Grand IV. There's a palpable scent of both mustiness and freshness to be found in all of PPU's grooves though, the smell of funk from a parallel dimension.

5918 minutes of music.
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No limitations on genre, style or time. 
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Born to Kurdish parents, growing up in Sweden with a Ugandan extended family,  and attending university in Los Angeles, Arazo haa a multicultural up bringing that strongly influences her musical style and personal outlook on life.

The R&B stylings of the 90s has an influence on her upcoming EP called the THE CANTATA PROJECT (volumes 1-3).

"I am not the only person who feels how I feel and if I can make someone else 'feel' or wake up a thought in someone, even if that someone is just one, then I can call myself successful."
                                                       - Arazo Abdulla

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