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Beat Context is conversations with independent music-makers

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@valleyonda '...I don't really believe in this imaginary enemy. For want a of a better term, this ‘ego entity’ is often invisible (but not always) and completely self-sabotaging...'
https://t.co/K4qW8rUJjB…/valley-onda-displacement-and-…

#ValleyOnda #Interview #Sydney

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'…artists like Public Enemy and Ice Cube articulated the minority identity very boldly and that appealed to me …’

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Raven '...I have gone through many phases...Some of this comes from becoming a father and feeling like I didn’t want my kids to see me angry at the world...'

https://t.co/bF0lt6rnUm

#Raven #Interview #DarkwingProductions #CrateCartel #HungryHumans #Melbourne #BehindTheMusic

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Raven '...work is work and needs to be done but it is what you spend your time doing outside of the daily grind that will truly define who you are in life. I don’t have a lot of regrets...'

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Elsy Wameyo: '...my Pastor always reminds me how Praise and Worship is the most important time during a service... I must ensure that people don’t just hear but feel the power and the energy of the sounds in the music...'

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Elsy Wameyo '...in this current society especially with what’s going in the African community I wanted to make music which people could really listen to the lyrics and really learn and understand something from it...'

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@korikotreehouse '...the biggest thing I admire about Dilla is how much he loved making music and how he just did what he loved. He was making beats until the day he died, with his mum passing him the records. That’s true love...'

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BEAT CONTEXT is back for season two.

Koriko Treehouse '... The sound of my music reflects how I feel, and I feel great. I want my songs to sound like how it feels to cruise to the beach in golden hour...'

https://t.co/jKDxqgyiel

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Mat Ward '...making the album disrupted my outlook while I made it, as I went from being totally depressed about the future to thinking that this is actually an incredible time to be alive...'

Full Mat Ward article: https://t.co/RkjuT9oldr

#MatWard #ElonMusk #Disrupted

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Astro @Funknukl Labe '...I had no recollection of (headbutting Tony Abbott) when the fuzz picked me up the following morning... I acted purely out of my own contempt for the bourgeois scum presuming to 'rule' over other humans...'

https://t.co/iVZlhDz3vO

#Funknukl #AstroLabe

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@TILTHEBREAK '...we were in our own world, and learning all different places. We learned what we wanted to be. We met lots of different tribes, sussed out who we were as people, and eventually learned that we can just be ourselves....'

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@taiahamusic

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Ruru '...I always try to speak from love.The music helps to balance everything out.I get to share the softer side in the music.. It's like the divine feminine side - gentle and kind but still powerful...'
https://t.co/4I2dNtPK8C

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'...soul music strips all the bullshit away..when James Brown sang "say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud!", he didn't fxck about, or tip toe around, the social climate, he just said it, and he said it in a time when black people needed to hear it!...'

https://t.co/4I2dNtPK8C

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@tom_tanuki '..there’s a culture war happening because the chips scattered over the past few years. People fought and fractured over it, and still do. It's a fight for our future identity. I don’t want regressives and reactionaries to win that fight here'

https://t.co/Wia2COenAJ

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@tom_tanuki '...I never understood heads who just consumed the music and didn’t get into the politics or cultural context surrounding rap... In hindsight, it was the broader cultural perspective shift I was really soaking up the experience of...'

https://t.co/Wia2COenAJ

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I love this art form... and the art to me has always represented the most revolutionary change as an individual and community. It has been like a handbook to individuals who have used their talents to change themselves and others through Hip Hop...'
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@DaydreamFever_ '... as an adult I don’t have that faith in my life anymore and I think a lot of the lyrics are an exploration of what replaces God when it isn't there, not just for me, but for society in general...'

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