Dope. My name plate has great significance for me since it was a birthday gift at a time when I knew my mom was struggling financially. I am named after the island where my mother was born, so I think it was special for both of us. Thanks so much for honoring this tradition and these stories with an in-depth genealogy and dialogue.

Sleepin Giant - Purple | Original Cultures OCEP003 / OCEP008DD
Release date: April 21, 2014 (digital), May 26, 2014 (vinyl)
Format: Vinyl, Digital
Distribution: Kudos (worldwide) + originalcultures.bandcamp.com

Buy digital:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/purple-ep/id844207723
https://boomkat.com/downloads/968807-sleepin-giant-purple
http://originalcultures.bandcamp.com/album/purple

Buy vinyl:
http://originalcultures.bandcamp.com/album/purple

Buy the single: 
http://originalcultures.bandcamp.com/album/lets-get-serious-b-w-hey-girl-alt-version
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/lets-get-serious-single/id833564885
http://boomkat.com/downloads/954054-sleepin-giant-let-s-get-serious 
+ all digital stores worldwide.

Video for Glitch -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVsU_TIP0Zg

Support from Kutmah, BBE, LV, Jehst, KCRW Los Angeles, KSDS San Diego, Radio Helsinki, Groovement, Black Athena, Tru Thoughts, 22Tracks and more.

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Sleepin Giant is an Amsterdam-based producer who has been bidding his time for over a decade, refining his craft, honing his voice. Purple is his first official release, following a debut appearance on Brussels’ On Point label in 2012 for the Sweet Rendez-Vous remixes.

Purple has been two years in the making, a journey that began with the track Glitch written with NYC-based poet Aja Monet. It was on the strength of this demo that Original Cultures convinced Sleepin Giant to put together a whole EP of his own soul music. Another two vocalists were added to the mix: Bristol’s Romaine Smith, a young singer full of promise who has worked primarily with Typesun, and Amsterdam’s Ruben Hein, signed to Blue Note and one of Holland’s most striking voices.

The music on Purple is soul, plain and simple. It draws from the same spiritual place as the likes of D’Angelo, The Roots, Erikah Badu or Jay Dee - from inside, from the soul. It’s music to fall in love to, music to make love to, music to dream to. On each of the five songs the vocalists recount stories we can all relate to, stories of love, of things past, of things coming. The musical backdrop is stripped down to its bare essentials with an irresistible interplay between drums and bass alongside warm, sultry melodies that compliment the singing.

Purple is to be released on digital and 12” vinyl, featuring cover art inspired by the legendary Ohio Players albums, in mid April. It will be preceeded in late March by a digital single featuring Let’s Get Serious and an alternate version of Hey Girl. In early May remixes from Typesun, Lewis James and EAN will be released digitally along four dancefloor tracks created during the process.

Sleepin Giant ft. Ruben Hein - Let's Get Serious

Hosts Marcel Rosa-Salas and Isabel Flower nerd out about nameplate jewelry, discussing the style's formal qualities, its material and social history, and its relevance in American culture today. 

Music Credit: 
"Uptown Top Ranking" by Althea & Donna
Original interlude by @dyani_douze

Episode 01: The Personal is Political

Sodality Vol.1 is available now Beatport: http://smarturl.it/TTR006BPPre

Pre-order on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/sodality-vol.-1-single/id1096726895

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FOUR TET — "LA Trance"
(Text, 2017)

CHASTITY BELT — "Joke"
(Hardly Art, 2015) 

THE WAR ON DRUGS — "You Don't Have To Go"
(Atlantic, 2017) 

DAUGHTER — "I Can't Live Here Anymore" 
(Glassnote, 2017)

BLOOD ORANGE — "Better Numb"
(Domino, 2016) 

BJÖRK — "The Modern Things" live version
(One Little Indian, 2004)

FACTORY FLOOR — "Ya" KLARA LEWIS remix
(DFA, 2017)

GAIKA — "In Between" 
(Mixpak, 2016) 

BLOC PARTY — "Tulips" 
(Dim Mak, 2005) 

NO AGE — "Soft Collar Fad" 
(Drag City, 2017) 

THE WHITE STRIPES — "Let's Shake Hands" 
(Italy, 1998 / Third Man, 2011)

JEHNNY BETH & JULIAN CASABLANCAS — "Boy/Girl" 
(Cult / Pop Noire, 2015) 

DINOSAUR JR. — "I Told Everyone"
(Jagjaguwar, 2016)

PROTOMARTYR — "Don't Go To Anacita" 
(Domino, 2017)

THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA — "Familiar Ground" 
(Ninja Tune / Domino, 2007)

RIDE — "Impermanence" 
(Wichita, 2017)

MRE50

Produced by US&THEM and DJ GETLIVE! for the MIDNIGHT ROCKERS EXPRESS,  12 2017

Cover: still from FALLEN ANGELS by WONG KAR-WAI, 1995

MRE50

MRE50   12 2017

Marcel Rosa-Salas & Isabel Flower are co-host of the The Top Rank Podcast. They sat down with Taj Alexander on The Open Canvas to share their story and passions.

Video: https://www.theopencanvas.com/toprank/

Top Rank Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/toprankmagazine

Hat Line: https://www.instagram.com/hat_line/?hl=en

EPISODE 42 ISABEL FLOWER & MARCEL ROSA-SALAS

On episode 12 of the Top Rank Podcast, co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas speak with Cecilia Palmeiro and Verónica Gago, founding members of Argentinian feminist movement and collective Ni Una Menos. 

Ni Una Menos (which translates to Not One Less) combats femicide—the intentional killing of women because they are female—as well as all gender based-violence. They are committed to changing a culture that castes women as objects to control, to consume, and to discard. To do so, Ni Una Menos examines the multiple forms of violence (economic, political, financial, state, social) that limit the autonomy of women and therefore generate the conditions that allow for physical violence, shedding light on the relationship between the most dramatic manifestations of violence against women and their structural roots. 

The movement’s affiliates now span numerous Latin American countries and even continents, and their work includes organizing marches, protests, strikes, and discussions to putting forward formal government demands.
Cecilia and Verónica spoke with us about how to define machista violence, the relationship between neoliberalism, capitalism, and gender-based abuse, and making community activism intersectional, collaborative, and transnational.

Episode 12: NI UNA MENOS - Cecilia Palmeiro and Verónica Gago

On episode 13 of the Top Rank Podcast, “Thick/er Black Lines,” co-hosts Isabel Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas spoke with Rianna Jade Parker, Hudda Khaireh, and Aurella Yussuf founding members of the London based curatorial collective Thick/er Black Lines.

Thick/er Black Lines is an interdisciplinary collective that brings together art criticism and, cultural studies, as well as archival, and activist practices to shed light on the creative production of the Black European diaspora. Their ongoing efforts to canonize Black British women and femme artistsun cluding their most recent residency at the Tate Modern— -- emerge from an urgency to highlight the multiplicities and convergences of Black identities across the globe.

Episode 13: Thick/er Black Lines

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DJ Era - 8th November 2018

After a brief hiatus as we transitioned into this new year and decade, we are back in the booth with Jessica Lynne, a writer and cultural critic from coastal Virginia and co-founder of ARTS.BLACK, an online journal that publishes art criticism from Black perspectives. We spoke with Jess about the craft of criticism, the relationship between research, love and vulnerability, and the art of finding balance.  

Find Jessica online at @lynne_bias.
https://www.jessicalynne.co/
https://arts.black/

Episode 26: Jessica Lynne of ARTS.BLACK on reimagining art criticism

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This Month's Featured Cover Artist is @omah_lay who just dropped his EP “Get Layd”. Be sure to check it out. Hottest EP out right now in Nigeria. 

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2. Ayo Jay - Peace Of Mind
3. Yung L - Eve Bounce feat Wizkid
4. Adekunle Gold - Something Different
5. Skillz 8Figure - Body
6. Yemi Alade - Boyz
7. Odunsi - Body Count
8. Omaha Lay - Damn
9. E Kelly - Oreke ft Joeboy
10. Kwarteng - Go
11. Kidi - Say Cheese
12. Tomie - Your Body
13. Mystro - Blow Me Away
14. Idahams - Ada 
15. Dr Sid - That’s Interesting feat Dr Sid
16. May D - Call My Name
17. M.anifest - We Dey Hear ft Kelvyn Boy & Kel P
18. Terri - Ojoro
19. Kiddominant - Ewallet ft Casper Nyvoset
20. Shizzi - Won Le Ba ft DaVido & Wale
21. Midas The Jagaban - Come We Bill Ehh
22. DNA - Mona Lisa
23. Guru NKZ - Fire ft Criss Waddle
24. Brainee - Girls
25. Wurld - Love Nobody
26. Omah Lay - Ye Ye Ye


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Top Rank is a process-oriented research platform, founded in 2015, that highlights people whose work is challenging and shaping our perceptions of contemporary culture. 

Co-hosted by Isabel Attyah Flower and Marcel Rosa-Salas

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