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Democracy Now! Tuesday, July 8, 2025

🎧 Phantrik – It Ain’t A Debate (Album) 🎧

This is the debut album of Phantrik.
11 tracks + 1 bonus Arabic rap song dedicated to Palestine & the people of Gaza

This project speaks on the reality of life behind walls, and the hypocrisy of those who claim to stand for human rights while staying silent. It’s not just rap; it’s testimony, it’s solidarity, it’s unfiltered truth.

The sound is raw boom bap, layered with Middle Eastern soul. Samples, drums, chants, and rhymes sharpened into weapons of resistance.

I made this for the people of Gaza, for every voice silenced, for every story buried under rubble. This album is not entertainment, it’s a statement.

❤ ✊ All proceeds from this album will be donated to Gaza’s children via Save The Children.

🔗 Phantrik.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-a-debate

8- Phantrik - Peace For Palestine

2- Phantrik - Free Speech

6- Phantrik - Starvation Season

https://on.soundcloud.com/oKq9VUP8TIkRpZq4B8 full album by Phantrik @phantrik

This is the debut album of Phantrik. This project speaks on the reality of life behind walls, and the hypocrisy of those who claim to stand for human rights while staying silent. It’s not just rap; it’s testimony, it’s solidarity, it’s unfiltered truth. I made this for the people of Gaza, for every voice silenced, for every story buried under rubble. This album is not entertainment, it’s a statement. @phantrik ✊🏽🖤✨

🍉🎵 Phantrik - SILENCE KILLS - PEACE FOR PALESTINE 🕊🍉

Phantrik - Peace for Palestine (ShAnkAri touch) 
Phantrik - Ain't a debate (ShAnkAri touch) 
Phantrik - Free Speech (ShAnkAri touch) 
Phantrik - From Baghdad to Jerusalem (ShAnkAri touch) 
Phantrik - Silence kills (ShAnkAri touch)
Phantrik - Starvation Season (ShAnkAri touch)
Phantrik - We created Hummus (ShAnkAri touch)
Phantrik - Olive Roots (ShAnkAri touch) 
Phantrik - Love from the Middle East (ShAnkAri touch) 
Phantrik - Salam (ShAnkAri touch) 

https://phantrik.bandcamp.com/album/it-aint-a-debate - All proceeds from this album will be donated to Gaza’s children via Save The Children. 🕊🍉✊🏽

https://www.youtube.com/@itsphantrik
https://www.instagram.com/phantrik.music/
https://www.tiktok.com/@phantrikmusic

@shankari-touch

PHANTRIK - SILENCE KILLS - PEACE FOR PALESTINE (ShAnkAri touch) #djmix #Rapnotech

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Pole Position - Every Single Way (Deep Dish Remix) [Snippet] Out 19/09

"أوقفني في الوقفة، وقال لي: كل شيء دوني وهم."

🇵🇸 Mystical invocations arising from Palestine 🇵🇸

Champion Sound: Side 4 Champion Sound

Watch entire episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfK_Y84Vdpg

Guest: 
- Abubaker Abed, journalist and contributor to The Electronic Intifada

Day 699: Israel devastates Gaza City

FREE DOWNLOAD • FREE PALESTINE

🔥 New drop: Voices in the Fire
The sound of struggle, the sound of freedom.
✊🏽 Free Palestine.

[ FREE DOWNLOAD ] Phantrik - Voices In The Fire

*FREE DOWNLOAD* - Trance/orchestral infused ambient track, that has dark overtones. The ceasefire in Gaza is on a knife edge, and many of us expect it not to hold, and for the massacre to begin again. This track reflects the confusion and tension surrounding Gaza right now.

Stop the Genocide! 
Stop the Blockade! 
Sanction Israel!

ORIGINAL MIX: https://soundcloud.com/the-newsical-professor/system-overload

Full RELOCATION EP: 

Soundcloud (PLAYLIST): https://soundcloud.com/the-newsical-professor/sets/relocation-ep
Soundcloud (1 TRACK): https://soundcloud.com/the-newsical-professor/relocation-ep-full-album-1-track
YouTube (PLAYLIST): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FhJzR6hLou9RzlvIBNAdpEW5SYQspIT
YouTube (1 TRACK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7mOvuMbIKk

I hope you enjoy listening!

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Music Software: Ableton Live 12, Landr for mastering
P + C Damien Hughes, aka The Newsical Professor

This track is available to use royalty-free, by YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit and Facebook video creators, in their videos. Full terms here: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxfMAwp1dpacDVXzFzK1Q48fQ1CzcsA6p0?si=GScD7l2En1hejZ7S

YOUTUBE
The Newsical Professor (Music-Only): https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewsicalProfessorMusic
The Newsical Professor (Music & Politics Blended): https://www.youtube.com/@TheNewsicalProfessor
Undistorted Journalism: https://www.youtube.com/@UndistortedJournalism

OTHER SOCIAL
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thenewsicalprofessor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheNewsicalProf
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/the-newsical-professor

System Overload (Gaza Tension Ambient Mix)

Music is my therapy! All styles of house and ambient electronic music. On occasion, I also blend music with politics.
*FREE DOWNLOAD* all my tracks. 

RELOCATION EP (March-April 2025) now complete - 20 tracks, lots of uplifting floor-fillers, deeper electronica, plus some vocal numbers, including a couple of protest tunes.

From June 2025 onwards: Relocation EP (The Bonus Mixes) - some alternative, downtempo and ambient mixes, being released one-by-one.

From May 2025 onwards: Relocation EP (The 12" Mixes) - dj-friendly mixes, being released one-by-one.

After producing very little for 20 years, up until last summer, Im really enjoying creating new tunes, so I'm already starting on the next album. I should have some more brand new material to add in the near-enough future. Stay tuned & thanks for listening! Damien.

System Overload (Gaza Tension Ambient Mix)

The Newsical Professor

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