The untimely death of George Floyd inspired global anti-racist protests that continue to this day. Here’s his story. This is about a young lady’s experience of growing up half-black half Japanese in Japan. (with Japanese subtitles) Cocoalizzy, born and raised and in Japan, talks about what it was like for her to grow up here. A great and at times hard to watch film about people who grew up in Japan, half-Japanese half-other. (with Japanese subtitles) I’ve been compiling this …
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TMG presents an exclusive mix from the incomparable Algernon, a Trinidadian renaissance man. Some may know him as the guitarist from the indie pop band, Miniature Tigers. They have gone on national tours, opening for the likes of Ben Folds and Fun. Algernon is a multi-instrumentalist, prolific producer, and a motion graphics designer. In his formative years he was one-half of the rap dou Nonspecific (with rapper Bedtime9), main producer of Sugar Brown Steven & The Super New Kids, and …
This morning was a quarantine dream. I talked to podcaster, writer, rapper, and Shanghai social commentator, Randy Flagg. I’ve previously written about him, here. I did not know we’d be talking live. It’s been years since I’ve talked to this brother face-to-face. I signed on through his streamyard link (which I’ve never used) then all of a sudden, live, I’m on the internet. “Oh shit.” Surprise, it was comfortable and good to reconnect with an old friend. He’s been grinding …
Looking at David Ball’s mixed-media paintings is analogous to staring at alien creatures that function as your reflection. They exist in a parallel universe where life is represented through cultural fragments that are made to unlock as opposed to enslave. When watched, the paper hearts of these colorful creatures feverishly swell and sputter, “friend or foe?” Trapped in an undefined narrative, they are frozen in motion, in a space and time that dances on the inside of eyelids. Ball, who …
A couple weeks ago Flying Lotus aka Steven Ellison shared Sendspace and Mediafire links. It was in celebration of reaching 300k followers, “thanks for everything .. im feelin all emo about this…,” he tweeted. The links contained 24-tracks, all outtakes and a remix of Kanye West’s “Black Skinhead” featuring Thundercat on bass. Ellison labeled the outtakes Ideas+drafts+loops (2013) and that’s exactly what the downloaders got. They were scraps that fell into what one could easily imagined to be his bottomless pit …
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