Music

afropunk mixtape #017: power to the party

By Sound Check
May 4, 2016

The new AFROPUNK Mixtape is here, featuring bands from this year’s AFROPUNK Brooklyn festival line-up such as TV On The Radio, Fishbone, Living Colour, Bad Brains, George Clinton, Tyler the Creator, Radkey, Saul Williams, SATE and many more!
‘Power To The Party’ is the title of the Manifesto for AFROPUNK Brooklyn 2016.

During this important election year, with self-empowerment winds blowing through the air, the theme AFROPUNK has chosen for the 12th installment of the festival is “POWER TO THE PARTY.” Power, it’s a feeling, it’s an energy, it’s the undisputed connection between cause and effect – the best of us give it away, the worst usurp it, but living modern life to the fullest, means either mastering your relationship to it or walking in its shadow. We are not blind.
 
Party is an oxymoron, it’s a gathering of many for a shared purpose and it’s also an outcast individual, it’s a lively social occasion as well as a gang – and the story of any party is never over, because like naked cities and the metaphysical “I”, there’s always another take.
 
Power to the Party means trusting the friction, the transference of great capacity to the free spirit, belief in the high-heeled spark of the assembly, and the group-mind’s ability to choose a glorious path. This isn’t about getting elected, or being protected; it’s about staking a claim.
 

Join the party and feel its power.

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Mixtape Tracklist:

01. Intro: Power to the Party
02. Funkadelic – You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
03. The Downtown Boys – Wave of History
04. Saul Williams – The Noises Came From Here
05. Ice Cube – Everythang’s Corrupt
06. Sate – Know My Name
07. Interlude: LE1F (August 2013)
08. Gallant – Bone and Tissue
09. Young Fathers / Massive Attack – Voodoo In My Blood
10. Sir the Baptist – Wake Up
11. Radkey – Love Spills
12. Interlude: ALIGNS (July 2015)
13. Prayers – Black Leather
14. Earl Sweatshirt – Wind In My Sails
15. Tyler the Creator – What the Fuck Right Now
16. TV on the Radio – Winter
17. Roman GianArthur + Janelle Monae – NO SURPR_SES
18. Interlude: Vernon Reid (April 2013)
19. Fishbone vs Living Colour vs Bad Brains – Black Flowers

Photo on artwork by Luis Nieto Dickens http://nosleep.co/ @nietodickens

Words by Sound Check

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