Angelica Garcia - Gemelo - VINYL LP

Two years in the making, 25-year-old Angelica Garcia's album Cha Cha Palace is the result of an artist's need to SAY SOMETHING. The second song on the record, InchJícamaInch might only be a minute and 25 seconds in it's entirety, but the message spans generations and is one that resonates deeply for Garcia with her Mexican and Salvadoran roots. Singing/shouting, InchI see you, but you don't see me Jímaca, Jímaca, Guava Tree... I've been trying to tell ya, but you just don't see, like you I was born in this country,Inch Garcia tells the reality for millions of Americans unapologetically and with passion. That feeling of being between places is something Garcia knows well having been raised between multigenerational, multicultural, homes with step-parents and half-siblings. Additionally, she made the journey from the West Coast to the East Coast and back again multiple times before finally settling down in Richmond, Virginia. She fondly recalls Mexican ranchera music always playing throughout her childhood. Ranchera was ingrained within the maternal side of her family with her Mother, Grandmother, Uncle & Aunt constantly singing the traditional music throughout the home of her Grandparents. Like Mitski, Lorde, Billie Eilish, and Rosalía, Garcia isn't afraid to tear pages out of her diary and express emotions that might be difficult and oftentimes daunting to share given today's social and political environment. Like her peers, she joins a new chapter of musicians who are connecting with their audiences on a level that lives outside the reaches of technology, trends, and social media, the daily experience of feeling torn between saying something and doing something, for being a voice and speaking with your voice, of being Latina while being American. And it's humanity and honesty that audiences are looking for and will find in spades throughout each note of Cha Cha Palac

Ludmila Peterkov - Peterkova Plays [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/29/2002

2011 from Chicago producer/DJ Karlis Griffin AKA DJ Diamond. He has been producing music since the age of 13 and DJ'ing since 20, heading the Flight Muzik clique of footwork producers. Listeners may recall his two tracks from Planet Mu's Bangs & Works Vol. 1 compilation of 2010. a unique producer with a distinct style, DJ Diamond has an unusual ear for unexpected sonic and rhythmic combinations within the footwork template his samples are often so thoroughly edited that they become tiny, trance-inducing, techno-like stabs. With neon synths and loose, effects-laden drums, Diamond's tracks have an intriguing and dreamlike feel.