About Tropical Diaspora Records®

Active since 1999 and established as recording company in 2015 in Berlin by the DJ and producer DJ Garrincha (São Paulo, Brazil) the label goes back to the 1990’s Berlin, at a time of underground parties and a very exciting cultural milieu where DJ Garrincha was active. In 2008 he started the event called Tropical Diaspora.
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Berlin, Johannesburg Jul 23 (TD®R): Tropical Diaspora Rrecords® amplifies the raw brilliance of Zoli Sway

By |2025-07-25T18:14:13+02:00July 23rd, 2025|Blog, News|

Tropical Diaspora Records Presents: Zoli Sway's Musicine – A Sonic Antidote for the Unheard - Soweto's Soul Alchemist Delivers Timeless Healing Through Vinyl-Rooted Resistance

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Berlin, Jul 1. (TD®R): Tropical Diaspora® Records remembering DIASPORA SONG by NYABINGHIA

By |2025-07-02T20:24:57+02:00July 1st, 2025|iBlog, News|

TROPICAL DIASPORA SONG by NYABINGHIA

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Berlin, Jun 29 (TD®R): Tropical Diaspora® Records presents new release on vinyl : Amandla Freedom Ensemble, Mandla Mlangeni

By |2025-07-23T12:37:30+02:00June 30th, 2025|Blog, News|

Led by visionary trumpeter and composer Mandla Mlangeni, the Amandla Freedom Ensemble is more than a musical collective.

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Berlin Jun 19 (TD®R): Bugiganga Tropical as raízes do Selo Tropical Diaspora Records®

By |2025-08-09T13:46:42+02:00June 19th, 2025|Blog, News|

Bugiganga Tropical Collection • Treasure Cover

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Berlin Jun 25 (TD®R): RIOSENTÍ LIVE w/ Djs Marcio S, Garrincha & Dr.Sócrates at Vagabund Brauerei Summer Festival in Berlin

By |2025-06-11T21:43:41+02:00June 11th, 2025|Blog, Mix Tapes, News|

RIOSENTÍ LIVE w/ Djs Marcio S, Garrincha & Dr.Sócrates at Vagabund Brauerei Summer Festival in Berlin

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Refuge Worldwide – May Day Fundraiser | Tropical Diaspora Records DJ DR.Sócrates // 01.05.2025

By |2025-06-11T21:39:44+02:00May 1st, 2025|Blog, Mix Tapes, News, Podcast|

Refuge Worldwide - May Day Fundraiser | Tropical Diaspora Records DJ DR.Sócrates // 01.05.2025

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Berlin Nov 24 (TD®R): Book & Record Market at Vagabund Brauerei Berlin Wedding

By |2024-12-04T14:15:27+01:00November 20th, 2024|Blog, Mix Tapes, News|

Book & Record Market at Vagabund Brauerei Berlin Wedding

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Our Mission!

We emphasize cross-cultural experiences...

Tropical Diaspora Records® is committed to create and relect a musical narrativ originated by forced African migration, its collective memory and their powerful musical herstories. We are popular based, politically conscious and anti-colonial. As we carry out our musical research, we come face to face with the question of how to address the cultural life of communities that have been dispossessed and opressed for many centuries. Ways of looking and narratives need to be handed back, as we observe with sadness how mainstream recording companies are still in the business of taking advantage of, expropriating the cultural heritage of African and originary people world wide.

Frantz Fanon

We would like to thank Frantz Fanon, always a source of inspiration.

from Toward the African Revolution “…Having judged, condemned, abandoned his cultural forms, his language, his food habits, his sexual behavior, his way of sitting down, of resting, of laughing, of enjoying himself, the oppressed flings himself upon the imposed culture with the desperation of a drowning man. … At the United Nations there is a commission to fight race prejudice. Films on race prejudice, poems on race prejudice, messages on race prejudice. Spectacular and futile condemnations of race prejudice. In reality, a colonial country is a racist country. If in England, in Belgium, or in France, despite the democratic principles affirmed by these respective nations, there are still racists, it is these racists who, in their opposition to the country as a whole, are logically consistent. It is not possible to enslave men without logically making them inferior through and through. And racism is only the emotional, affective, sometimes intellectual explanation of this inferiorization.…”

Our Partners

Like so many other things in the small universe of Tropical Diaspora® Records our partnerships are the result of travels and personal connections. In fact, its meaning conveys just that: the creation of human relations based on love and care, understanding, respect and passionate discussions around the topics that move us. Djs Garrincha and Dr. Sócrates do exactly this with a case full of records traveling across the borders of the World. Dj Garrincha’s trips have taken him to meet artists and ignite relations that are meant to last. It can be Johannesburg, Chicago, São Paulo, Medellin, Berlin, Barcelona, Olinda or San Juan. So here few of our Partners World Wide

 

A Sanctuary for Music Lovers

Since its inception in 2019, Bantu Records has become a sanctuary for discerning listeners. Inspired by the legendary Hugh Masekela and the infectious energy of township jazz, the store offers a platform for discovery and exploration. It's a space where the past, present, and future of music converge, creating a vibrant and immersive experience.

 

 

Cultural Production beyond and above

...Com sabença profunda irei cantando Altos feitos da gente luminosa... We believe that we can turn our ideas into reality through our innovative ways of storytelling. Our well equipped, insanely enthusiastic team helps us to realize any kind of artistic production.

 

 

Noise Studio

Music Production & Creation

Noise Studio our Partner for Creation and production of soundtracks for cinema, internet, radio and television. Post production and audio finishing. Sound Design, sound effects and foley. Voice-over, recording and music production. Script Production and Audio Description Recording

 

 

Chanel Bob Fernandes

Independent Journalistic Narrative

Channel of the Journalist Bob Fernandes. Our Partner for news and information with a Journalistic Narrative thar represents us as independent recording company and as political conscious people.

 

Cinema Partners and Sponsors

Writing & Direction

Exploring Realities. Thinking in pictures. Forging unique characters.

 

AfroCannes

AfroCannes is a two-day event featuring panel discussions, country highlights, presentations, screenings, cocktails and tributes. AfroCannes aims at promoting diversity, inclusion in film across the industry. AfroCannes connects creatives, businesses and stakeholders from the entire film ecosystem at the world premiere film gathering; The Cannes Film Festival.

 

 

Noise Studio

Yanibes Consulting is communications and business consulting company.

 

End Apartheid and Settler Colonialism.

Stop Genocide, Apartheid and Settler Colonialism Tropical Diaspora Records® position facing apartheid and settler-colonialism. Oppression forces in the region are occupying, stealing and colonizing Palestinian land, an apartheid system is discriminating against Palestinian citizens in the region denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, Tropical Diaspora Records® call urges action to pressure oppression forces to comply with international law.
Our support work stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination under international law (UN Resolution 3236). It explicitly condemns all forms of racism, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.

Free Palestine! End Apartheid and Settler Colonialism. 🍉#FP🍉

Read our Manifesto: our position facing cultural appropriation.

... Look at a compilation of so-called World Music, as it is typically done in the US or Europe...The powerful cultural institutions of the European national states are happy to back this colonialist penetration in the name of the Other, because they know better. So we end cheering up Humboldt’s achievements as if they were our own... Colonialists have always granted themselves the right to represent Others, to measure them against their own scientific and artistic achievements. Record labels perpetuate this ideology when they create through recordings the plane where those featured are kept alive as Others, the strange subject of the colonialist curiosity and inquiry. By claiming the words World, Ethno, Afro or Latin the colonialist gives the impression of universality. But this is a misrepresentation. Through these recordings the colonized learns to act as African, as Latin, as Native in the eyes of the white supremacist. It means, the colonized has been stripped of her own humanity and universalism in order to become a puppet...

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