#multi-culti

[themagicmovement]

Norma & Dreems - Animal Empire/Rise (MAGIC05 12″)

On The Magic Movement's 5th phenomena, sound wizards Noema & Dreems (of Multi-Culti Records) invite you on a journey to the tropical depths of a world beyond. Down in the Rabbit hole, Thomas von Party joins the tribe with a dubby, stripped down, percussion remix.

"Animal Empire" an afro inspired jungle techno swing with a dubby melody and hypnotizing bells while the driving bass-line enhances the macumba vibe. For those affected by swirling sonics beware the vertiginous breakdown, where all seems lost for a brief moment of madness. Flip the record and hear the sound of Aztec Acid Disco on the “Rise”. With a lot of love for the detail, flute, percussive guitar and shamanic vocals get you into the groove. After a little hang out with the local jaguar warriors the 303 soars up for a flight over the pyramids, until an elevating melody takes this intense beast right into the glowing morning sun. On the remix mountain Von party glares back into the light from atop his DMT peak and creates a dubby, stripped down, percussion frenzy, that will turn any forest floor upside down.

Trippy Shizzle Galore in full effect 'round here!

Support the artist and buy your copy at your local shop or here: Digital release: Beatport: btprt.dj/29O8FU4 JunoDL: bit.ly/2ajdwgC

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[hellogeorgiaworld]

Deutschland Musings.

The family and I are totally enjoying living in Germany and after 2.5 months here, I am ready to write about some of my observations. I am going to start with the cons, seeing as there are not nearly as many of them.

People still smoke like there is no tomorrow here. It’s like the 1960s all over again. It is the one thing that I would absolutely change about here. There are literally hundreds of…

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[hommedeseptiles]

Can we learn to empathise, not demonise? asks Martin Saunders.

Good piece.

[so-treu]

In this precise respect, multiracialism solicits alliances with other political and intellectual efforts to go "beyond the black-white binary" - whether in the current campaigns for immigrant rights or the research agendas of comparative ethnic studies - efforts which, in many cases, have been shot through with an air of antiblackness (Matsuda 2002). In the register of contemporary racial politics, black identity appears as an antiquated state of confinement from which the "multiracial imagined community" (Stephens 1999) must be delivered; the negative ideal against which "the browning of America" (Root 1992a) measures its tenuous success. One discovers in this new-fangled admonition of runaway blackness traces of the criminalization and repression of Black Power that subtends the birth of Reganism (Churchill and Vanderwall 2002). In the longer view, the "communal tyranny" (Kennedy 2003) imputed to the collective black personality in this context appears as a refraction of the pronounced fear of "black domination" that underwrites the history of white supremacist discourse: whether postbellum alibis for institutionalized lynching, segregation, and disenfranchisement (Hunter 1997) or the propaganda of "reverse discrimination" fashionable today - from "welfare queens" (Roberts 1998) to "coddled criminal" (Mauer 1999) to "affirmative action baby" (Post and Rogan 1998). Ultimately, it is consternation about being eclipsed by blackness that articulates multiracialism with the array of campaigns consolidated under the heading of the New Immigration (Jaynes 2000) and links them collectively, and perhaps unconsciously, to political projects they might otherwise oppose.

Jared Sexton, "Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism," p. 6-7

[indiancountry]

Follow for photos: On Sunday, May 20th, the 10th annual Drums Along the Hudson will once again turn Upper Manhattan’s Inwood Hill Park into a festival of music and dancing. In one of the most diverse cities on the planet, Drums Along the Hudson is a celebration of New York’s spirit of cultural sharing—what began as a pow wow has blossomed into a multi-culti event, centered on American Indian drums and dancers who rub shoulders, and keep beats, with musicians from cultures all over the world.