Approaching its 10-year anniversary, the Los Angeles-based label Young Art Records was launched by recording artist TOKiMONSTA in 2014. It debuted with the release of her mini-album Desiderium, which showcases features from Anderson .Paak and Joyce Wrice. Additional collaborations include Ambré, EARTHGANG, Ryuichi Sakamoto, VanJess, The Drums, Isaiah Rashad, Yuna and Selah Sue. TOKiMONSTA’s goal was to create a platform that would help nurture the creative output of talented artists, using her own releases to solidify the foundation of the label. Young Art has gone on to release the Juno-nominated album Play with the Changes by Canadian R&B icon Rochelle Jordan, Svengali by Cakes da Killa (rated 4 out of 5 stars by The Guardian), and Grammy-nominated “Best Electronic'' album Lune Rouge by TOKiMONSTA. The label’s roster newly boasts Japanese-American producer SHIMA, Miami-raised ROZET, as well as Rochelle Jordan, Keys N Krates, Daktyl + Benni Ola, Suzi Analogue, Rush Davis, Kingdom and more. Since the label’s inception, TOKiMONSTA has released two full-length albums, numerous singles and remixes. TOKiMONSTA’s forthcoming Eternal Reverie LP is projected to release later this year, with the first single “Switch It” (ft. Cakes da Killa + GAWD) released on June 13.

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POWVAC026 (Bintus) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkB75gAn-qU
POWVAC025 (V/A) https://youtu.be/Ty9wLFaTfm0 
POWVAC024 (Parasols) 
POWVAC023 (Amish Boy) https://vimeo.com/338051680
POWVAC022 (Scalameriya) goo.gl/jFdFQL
POWVAC021 (Amish Boy) https://vimeo.com/274873355
PV020 (Alma Construct) https://vimeo.com/270640798
POWVAC019 (Oleka) https://vimeo.com/247604911
POWVAC018 (Duran X 3) https://vimeo.com/223778544
POWVAC017 (Drvg Cvltvre) https://vimeo.com/213336632
POWVAC016 (VECTORS 3) https://vimeo.com/196394830
POWVAC015 (EDMX) https://goo.gl/x0vHG9
POWVAC014 (Sensational & Kruton) https://goo.gl/QPjf0d
POWVAC013 (Scalameriya & VSK) https://goo.gl/d16n3E
POWVAC012 (Cylob) https://vimeo.com/142241870
POWVAC011 (Vectors 2) https://vimeo.com/121312325
POWVAC010 (Bintus) https://vimeo.com/109603384
POWVAC009 (JoeFarr) https://vimeo.com/95135664
POWVAC008  (Vectors) https://vimeo.com/87220192
POWVAC007 (Bintus) https://vimeo.com/79549509
POWVAC006 (EDMX) https://goo.gl/NRMhlM
POWVAC005 (Mark Broom) https://goo.gl/ca8ysL
POWVAC004 (Invincible Scum) http://goo.gl/cRiy3E
POWVAC003 (Bintus) https://goo.gl/5K4FuQ
POWVAC002  (EDMX) https://goo.gl/lprgY3
POWVAC001 (Bintus) https://goo.gl/MWLyun
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Lyscuro is a band that, thanks to a suggestion from Stephen Vitiello, was formed in Richmond, Virginia in 2016. Comprised of 6 artists, their work aims to bridge personal, cultural, and temporal distances.

Members:
Meredith Brindley
James Heyes
Illya Lykhinin 
Kevin Moun
Claudine Reyes
Costantino Toth

Twice-monthly community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events. Turn on your radio and hide. Welcome to Night Vale. (Produced by Commonplace Books. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. Narrated by Cecil Baldwin. On Twitter as NightValeRadio)

Ho99o9 (horror) - An unauthorized biography
The first spores of Ho99o9 were identified by the CDC’s infectious disease unit
in the outsourced offices of purgatory that are peppered all throughout New
Jersey in places like Linden, Elizabeth and Newark.
There was only legend until cultures were collected. Once told as a cautionary
tale of two neighborhood kids, their story mutated into a reflection on the
horrors of the society that produced them. What happened between those
early days in the neighborhood and the present day is often debated.
theOGM (Jean) & Yeti Bones (Eaddy) are certainly a product of their early
environment. There weren’t any fields or even much grass for a kid to play on.
Gardens were made of concrete and a reality sustained only by dreams of
places where the train tracks went.
Eaddy’s Pops brought Motown and the militancy of the armed forces into
Eaddy’s sometimes rigid and uncompromising basic training for life. Pops was
hard because hard makes leaders in the human chain of command. And Jean
was always there in the street level offices of Chris Christie’s “small
government” purgatory in the defunded, decommissioned and deconstructed
district of Linden New Jersey. Jean knew when Trump’s future fuc boi and
every other neo-con said “small government” what they really meant was
“Fuck you nigg…”
Style was lacking but what Jean’s Pops was packing into his ear speakers stayed
embedded in Jean’s mind - The sounds of Haitian Kompa sung by Sweet Micky
(Michael Martely). The bizarre behavior and non-conformist styles of a Haitian
icon caught Jean’s eyes and ears back then and once again now with Micky
recently rising to become president of Haiti. Thieves and liars giving way to an
influential artist elected to rebuild a crumbling nation? Noted.
Jean and Eaddy kept lampin in overlapping circles of connected streets,
bordering cities and shuffled between under funded public schools. The sounds
on Hot 97 filled blank tapes with Bone Thugs, Busta, Onyx, Lil Jon and Missy
Elliott. Mental hard-drive uploads with flow served to drive them to finally
jump on that train to see what else was out there and what they found
changed them irrevocably.
Eaddy began branching out, bringing hardcore like Bad Brains back home with
him. The pair didn’t know it at the time but the resulting amalgamation they
brought back was the Deathkult. They were armed only with a pawn shop
sampler and the power to influence.
Born to lose in Jersey, reborn in NYC and subsequently reimagined 999.
Rewired to spread a promise for the next emancipation from time. The gospel,
the vibration, hardcore punk, rage and rhyme - theOGM and Yeti Bones emerge
transformed into weapons of mass expression and the spectacle known today
only as Ho99o9 (horror).
Then just like that, Ho99o9 vanished from the east coast, allegedly recruited
into a beat laboratory in Los Angeles. They baptized in blood and emerged
wrapped in a sound that had not yet been heard.
A congregation gathered in a scene of like-minded mutants and L.A. quickly
became the HQ of Ho99o9. More minions manifest with Horror spores started
spreading all throughout North America and the European Union - a pandemic
of fools gettin' woke as the fringe becomes the majority and we recall the
prophecy of Sweet Micky.
And Today - a new nation rises to smash the guise of the god-head. A deity-less
religion of our collective humanity, neither divine, nor wicked, led only by the
march of the Deathkult and delivered by its soldiers - theOGM and Yeti Bones in
their United States of Horror*.

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A placeless coalition of experimental artists, curators, and venues. Our mission is to breach the canon and redistribute clout. Currently, we are building a database of underrepresented voices: a curatorial corrective.

Our audible output can be found here.

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