Never Normal Records & ANTI-MASS are excited to announce their collaborative compilation, Gukuba, born out of 12 months of sound exchanges, field recordings, & online listening sessions between East African and Afro-Diasporic artists and producers indigenous to the USA.
This compilation focuses on new approaches to dance, sound and rhythms between Africa and the global Black Diaspora.
There are a myriad of sonic influences in this body of work, from Techno, to Acholi Electronic, to Footwork and more. The music of Gukuba spans the sonic stories and cultural backgrounds of the 10 collaborators featured on the project.
Featured collaborators include rising artists Authentically Plastic, Turkana and Nsasi (ANTI-MASS/ Uganda) Tayhana (NAAFI) and Suzi Analogue, Heavee, NO EYES, Safiyahh, Queens D. Light and Elevation (Never Normal Soundsystem/ USA- Worldwide).

KYIJANA MU BWENGULA- Safiyahh, Nsasi

Handbag Anthem (MK Wallet) Ft Nicky

An artisan named Sina lived in old Asia. His love was crafting bells with unique frequencies that carried far-reaching hymns to alarm his people from unexpected dangers. 

Sina discovered specific frequencies that heightened people's awareness and courage when outsiders threatened a city. Sina developed numerous bells to rhyme with one other in precise vibration. As his fame spread, artisans across Asia learned Sina's skills. His bells decorated every city, symbolising harmony and safety.

BANDCAMP

Sina - سینا

Composed, mixed, and mastered by me! I also did the artwork! Please listen and enjoy! Mulțumesc(Thank you)!!

Se Merită(Make It Worth It)

@letabruthaknow

Taken from 'Harmony From A Dominant Hue', the debut release from Body Promise. 
Get it here bit.ly/BPVA001Juno / bit.ly/BPVA001BC

An outlet for his more club-friendly productions. 
Lowdown was written mid 2014 and was one of the first for what would become the letabruthaknow project.  A heavy-handed tune to help you sway on the dancefloor at half time.

Harmony From A Dominant Hue

Letabruthaknow - Lowdown

The Feeling (Sunareht Edit)

Blessing us with this exclusive track is HAUS of ALTR Family member @acemo . Ace is one of the most exciting producers coming out of New York. With his recent album release "Black Populous" this has been a great year for AceMo. sit back and peep this lesson in style.

PREMIERE:// AceMo- Sexy

GOZPAAL - STILL - UMFANG RMX

We’re so excited to share the 6-track debut EP 'SiS' from Jasmine Infiniti, now available for download on CLUB CHAI’s Bandcamp:
Bandcamp: clubchai.bandcamp.com/album/sis

“SiS is a work of very personal and emotional thematic material. It’s dealing with my experience as a black trans woman in this new era, in a time of discovery and publicity, where the gaze of the media found its attention on us, a time where Paris is Burning exists as a historical document. It’s for my sisters. It’s a commentary on fear, sexuality, the importance of community and camaraderie, and the anger and shade of it all. It’s also about how we are more similar than we are different, how more of us are sisters than we know.”

- @JasmineInfiniti

Jasmine Infiniti is on the cusp of exposure, where the esoteric meets the technological. A singularity of multiple intersections, the Goddex transcends genre, obscures time, and knows no limitations. As a DJ and producer the Queen of Hell employs breakbeats and industrial drums blended with a dash of cunt, paying homage to her ballroom roots while staying true to her dark ethereal vibes.

EP credits:

Mixing & Mastering: @stud1nt 
Artwork: Imari Dotson

“Inside Me” 
Emory Labieja 
Ashley Breathe - vocals

New World Dysorder 
and my Sisters/Daughters

Released via CLUB CHAI

PURCHASE/DOWNLOAD

Jasmine Infiniti - Flight At O'Hare

READ > https://inverted-audio.com/premiere-clara-acero

Ringing the cash register as flows of cold, hard cash cascade in, @clara-uno's new release on @low-jack and Jean Carval's genre-crossing imprint @editions-gravats finds the Galician-born, Brussels-based reggaetonera firing off a pair of blazing dancehall rippers, sure to have the dancers wading knee-deep in their own sweat and bodies drawing daringly closer.

Meiga de Acero

Clara! - Acero [Editions Gravats]

Merge Layers comes out of the necessity and willingness to get people together, to go beyond the surface, being home to the mighty cultural human diversity reflected in the beloved shades of club tunes we’ve been curating and supporting 24/7. We feel touched about what’s happening, and highly aware of the complex interconnectedness surrounding racial issues, rooted in a society (everyone belongs to) that legitimates violence and oppression. But there is no room for doubts, so we would rather consider ourselves hypocritical than cynical. We are down with those fighting for their rights, despite the filter used to define them: color, religion, gender, job and any other filter deployed to endlessly discriminate while carrying on a distorted narrative that fuels separateness, whether it’s for you George today or tomorrow’s daily injustices within our communities. With extreme humbleness, making music it’s what naturally came from our guts and chest, therefore we’ve decided to join forces with all our fellows giving form to a collection of tracks supporting this message. For this reason, we’ve set up a special bandcamp page where you can go and contribute to the #BlackLivesMatter organization (via ActBlue) by purchasing this “CallToAction” release, all the profits will be entirely destined to their activities. Our commitment to the cause has no expiration date, the page will remain live forever, so that anywhere, anytime you could spend your bucks, pennies, yen or euros, on this, as a reminder as well as a means to keep the debate rolling. Nonetheless, as mentioned previously, we don’t need to lose the focus on what  the objective really is. If you feel like you could do more, both economically and socially speaking, go for it! Advocate for those who can’t, donate, educate yourself, but also the pals who just want to stay comfy in their bubbles, dig deeper, start from the small unseen insidious traps. We are not here to teach anything, we are not the ones sitting on a pedestal telling what you should or should not do, cause the truth is, that you know better than anyone else where the suffering, oppressions and unheard slaughters are…reach your inner consciousness.
“Call To Action”.

Thanks to
Natlek, Nobel, Timothy from O, Lil Jabba, Dean Lyon, Mamboussa, Cameron Traxxx, Eternal Entropy, Drum Thing, Rushmore, Kieran Loftus, Rave Mysterio, Arrow Ganza, Hidden, DJBT.

And the silent smiling warriors out there.

Sina - سینا

Zand - زند

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