The Mixtape as Maroon (2022)

“The Mixtape as Maroon” – An Original #BlackEphemera Mix by Kwame Phillips

“What does it mean to think of Black ephemera—random, inconsequential Blackness—as fugitive archival matter, as marooned archives?” – Mark Anthony Neal

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Tracklist

Maroon Abeng Player - Abeng Signaling Horn // Greg Tate Interlude
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - It's After The End Of The World
The Last Angel of History Interlude
Jimi Hendrix - 1983...(A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain // Jovana Tankou Interlude
Jyoti & Georgia Anne Muldrow - Ancestral Duckets // Sojourner Interlude
Angel Bat Dawid - Destination (Dr. Yusef Lateef) // Daughters of the Dust Interlude
Angel Bat Dawid and Tha Brothahood - Destination
The Last Poets - In Time and Space
OutKast - Millenium
A Tribe Called Quest - The Space Program
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - I am the Alter-Destiny
Sault - Stop Dem
Scientist - De Materialize // Lee “Scratch” Perry Interlude
Space Afrika - Bly // Maroons of Jamaica Interlude
Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force - Planet Rock
Erykah Badu - Dial’Afreaq
Laura Mvula ft. Nile Rodgers - Overcome
June Tyson - Theme of the Stargazers // Octavia Butler Interlude
Kamasi Washington - The Space Travelers Lullaby // Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Interlude
Jay Electronica ft. Jay-Z - The Neverending Story // Marcus Garvey Interlude
Maroon printing-man - Drum Language
Brother Ah - Transcendental March (Creation Song)
Moor Mother and billy woods (ft. Imani Robinson & Amirtha Kidambi) - Maroons
Flying Lotus - Intro / / A Cosmic Drama // Evelyn from the Internets Interlude
BLO - Chant to Mother Earth // Cauleen Smith Interlude
Sun Ra & His Intergalactic Solar Arkestra - Space is the Place