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Black Lives Matter

BLACK LIVES MATTER
Fundraiser Compilation
Format: CD + Download
Artist: Various
Genre: Dub-Reggae/Soul
PURCHASE BY DONATION
100% of Purchase Price donated to:
Aboriginal Legal Service ACT/NSW

Like many, we’re appalled that in Australia cops continue to get away with brutalising First Nations people, as courts lock them up at an alarmingly disproportionate rate and often for minor misdemeanours while they let white criminals walk free for serious crimes. Three decades after the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody handed down its report, none of the recommendations have been properly implemented and young Black lives continue to end as impunity is granted to the prison guards and police whose duty it is to protect them. In America too particularly, but right across the colonised world, the story is similar. This Pay What You Like / Donation release was produced on the fly by those at Groovescooter as a small contribution to raising awareness and funds locally. It could not have been done with out the help of all those local artists (and Grammo Suspect from Kenya) who came on board so quickly and either recorded vocals, remixed tracks or provided their production/recording/mastering services so quickly (often either for free or very cheaply) to make this EP happen. Huge thanks then to Grammo, Andrew Bukenya, Pat Powell, Grant Mercer/Daktari9, Vincent Sebastian (Oyobi), Owen Penglis, Peta Morris, Roger Mills, DJ Soup, Jeff Dread, Fufu (Inner West Reggae Disco Machine), Zac and Nico, and to everyone who purchased the release in the final months of 2020. 100% of the the purchase price collected via Bandcamp was donated to the Aboriginal Legal Service in December 2020.

Featuring some exclusive versions of the UB40 song One In Ten (with additional verse lyrics inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement), plus a stunning acappella gospel rendition of Nina Simone‘s Revolution and more, the full tracklisting /credits are below.

I’m the 14 year old outback boy / whose life ends in a jail /
No cops are ever charged / in a system made to fail /
I’m the man who pleads he can’t breathe / with my neck pinned to the ground /
But we still march in our thousands / as we – dodge another bullet round /

2 One In Ten – DAKTARI9 + PAT POWELL (Fufu Dub Remix)
Music: Daktari9 | Music Recorded by: Grant Mercer | Vocals: Pat Powell | Backing Vocals: Peta Morris | Dub remix by: Fufu (Inner West Reggae Disco Machine) | Lead Vocals recorded by: Vincent Sebastian at The Next, Surry Hills | Additional lyrics by: Groovescooter | Mastered by: Owen Penglis | Original song by: UB40

3 My Dress, My Choice – GRAMMO SUSPECT RAINBOW AMBASSADOR KENYA (DJ Soup Remix)
Vocals & Original song by: Grammo Suspect, Kenya| Remix by: DJ Soup, Australia | Mastered by: Owen Penglis

4 Witness / Revolution – ANDREW BUKENYA
All vocals: Andrew Bukenya | Produced, arranged & performed by: Andrew Bukenya | Mixed by: Paris Groovescooter | Vocals recorded by: Vincent Sebastian at The Nest, Surry Hills | Witness: Traditional spiritual | Revolution written by: Nina Simone / Weldon Irvine

5 One In Ten – DAKTARI9 + PAT POWELL (Fufu Vocal Remix)
Music: Daktari9 | backing vocals and music recorded by: Grant Mercer | Lead Vocals: Pat Powell | Backing Vocals: Peta Morris | Remix by: Fufu (Inner West Reggae Disco Machine) | Lead Vocals recorded by: Vincent Sebastian at The Nest, Surry Hills| Additional lyrics by: Groovescooter | Mastered by: Owen Penglis | Original song by: UB40

6 Deep Matters Mix – 25 minute Bonus DJ Mix by GEORGIE GROOVESCOOTER

7 Racist Friend – DEEPCHILD feat. ANDY B (Bonus track Digital only, not on CD version)
Track produced and recorded by: Rick Bull/Deepchild | Vocals by Andy Bull | Original song by The Special AKA (Cuthell, Dammers, Bradbury)

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