This track displays a raw experience on codeswitching, the Black Vernacular, Biracial Identity, and the idea of post-Blackness where there is understanding that the Black Identity is expressed in many ways more than stereotypical and boxed in Blackness. 

switchin'

The Brooklyn Combine returns with an episode dedicated to exploring several critical topics, with a particular focus on the concept of the "Black Middle Class." The criteria for defining this social category remain somewhat ambiguous; however, this episode examines the underlying complexities, including the intersections of capitalism, class mobility, class suicide, revolution, and the notion of the Talented Tenth, among other related themes. Stay woke.

We are the Brooklyn Combine, a non-profit community organization. We work with schools, community organizations, and dedicated city officials to help provide mentorship, critical education, leadership, and social support programs to youth and young adults in low-income and underserved communities.

Episode 3 Combine Cast Members: Michael Bunton, Keith White, Valentino Ellis, Kenneth J. Montgomery, and Phillip Shung.

Music:
 1. Sea Of Tranquility by Kool & The Gang
2. fortify by Stav
3. Bad Guy by Smif n Wessun
4. Niggers Are Scared of Revolution by The Last Poets

The Black Middle Class

Music + Moods Radio Ep. 11 | Juneteenth Mix

And Hold On

Playing around with hip hop tracks,  edits and acapellas. Hope You Enjoy

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What is going onnnn! Recorded a little house/disco moment and wanted to share with everyone. Hope You Enjoy!!! LOVE THE LIFE YOU LIVE! LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE

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Glitch in the Blackness

...And the beauty of not falling in line.

Ya'll asked, we complied: the desirability episode part 2! 

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The Episode:

Conventionally Attractive: What else does the convention govern beside attraction?
Conventionally attractive is just a euphemism for white eurocentric beauty ideals that white people themselves both control and regularly fail (and when they fail it, they shift the goalpost ever in their favor)

-GOP-1s/GLP-1s: A global "rightward" conservative drift coinciding with a boon in the weight loss drug industry, a billion dollar social media attention economy focused mostly on how people look and a concurrent decline in advocacy for Congo, Sudan, Haiti and the ongoing genocidal violence against Black people in this country may be revealing an uglier truth about white supremacy than once thought before.


Who has capital and who doesn’t all wrapped up in who is beautiful or not, another such binary created by the State

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Desirability Part 2: Disobeying white Eurocentric Beauty Standards

In the newest nightlife, a growing collective consensus arrives: 
 
Objectivity outweighs the obtuse—because we learned the discomfort of the truth hurts less when navigated together instead of merely felt together. We learned what standing our ground feels like when the voices we didn’t defend look us in the eye at the club. We learned how many never had access to the spaces they inspired until we reshaped our relationship to artist fees and agency fees over cover charges. We learned to identify privilege by watching White artists in power disrupt by no longer dissenting in secret.   
 
We learned speaking in whispers gets us nowhere healthy fast, because fear guards money while humility grows it. We speak truth to artists, promoters, and venues profiting from fear and intimidation as right-wing dogwhistles are indignantly rewarded on social media. We learned to challenge the music journalism platforms choosing passivity, tokenism, and dismissal by confronting our own who throw themselves at them — only for a brief boost of engagement, much less a booking. 
 
We found our own way of speaking truth to neutrality as those proclaiming “equality for all” look the other way from abuse, and explain away exploitation for the sake of a “career”.  We witnessed the resurgence of our hyperlocal scenes upon redirecting authority away from White mediocrity and back to the marginalized peoples whose lives inspired them all. We learned why certain spaces and circles not so secretly never wanted them there at all, and decided our artistry’s legitimacy was never theirs to define.
 
Maybe in the newest nightlife we realized we became the thing we swore to fight against, not because of a tragedy rattling us awake but the hierarchies we maintained simply left us bored.   
 
In the newest nightlife, more and more come to understand who pays the cost of escapism. We understand exclusion Or do they? How many fight to preserve the way it was in the name of preservation disguised as tradition? The newest nightlife is ours to define before it becomes ours to build. Your voice is all that's missing.

TRACKLIST

Skyshaker feat. Airiswyn - Safety Via Sweetness (Novox)
Rrose - The Tears of Applause
Reign - Falling Promises
Linn Elisabet and Ra - Reframe
Bartig Move - Limita
Franco Rossi - Orbiter Dicta
Pwcca - Legions and Splendor
Tensal - Strobo
Angelo Stasi - Crime Off Service
Skyshaker feat. Sayveon Dress - Unransom
Esteban Miranda - Endo
Drop-E - Divergence
Marthial - Crollo Del Sistema
Oscar Mulero - The Sweat And The Salt
Lakej - Discharge
Hemka - I Can’t Shine
Yant - Solidarity Is On The Line
Yan Cook - Collateral Damage
Yrsen - Alteration of Life
Hotdrum - Seven Hills
Bralle - Reap What You Sow
Phara - Life of Krumar
Pushmann - Bams Horizon
Rngd - Testarossa
Modullar - Raptor
None - XX 18 82
Heliosphere - Cataclysmic
Arnaud Le Texier - Orexis
Amorphic and Tensal - At6
Diego Oroquieta - I Finished My Homework
Sven Vath - Nyx (Planetary Assault Systems Remix)
Aocram - Electroquimica
Bartig Move - Decadencia
Oxygeno - Catharsis
SKZ - 4dy
Skyshaker feat. Kuri Jaesurn - And Still (Unto The Scar)

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Spyral Kombat - North Of The Newest Night (August 2025)

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5tarwin is a DJ from Chicago also known as DJ Napalm.
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Re-invention through colloboration of mind and soul. Here to bring you the best modern EDM, Techno, Tech-house, Trance, etc. A union of many years of a love for music and artistic prowess. Enjoy!

Influences:
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I have been DJing since the early 90's.  Ashe to the DJs that helped me and who I looked up to Nexman, Disco T, Bro. Jules. My daughter Yonci is the best DJ I know and my biggest influence. Releasing perfections and embracing what's imperfect.  Nothing to prove, only to share.

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