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Ratskin Records Ratskin Records is a collective record label and archival imprint championing de colonial music/art. https://linktr.ee/ratskinrecords

We focus on LGBTQ+, Black, Native, POC, and disabled artists who create work that is sonically and politically pushing boundaries toward liberation. We work together to create an alternative to an industry that has historically exploited and devalued artist labor and requires artists to exhaust themselves to fulfill their life’s passion. We see the work of decolonial artists as world-building acti

vism that centers empathy and basic human needs. The crux of our work is centered in engaging the healing power of sound for communities in struggle. Our goal is to pay and provide material resources for artists whose work lies on the margins of mainstream consumption. Our work is multifaceted in that we take multiple avenues to address issues around accountability, accessibility, racism, transphobia, and other systems of oppression. Ratskin is curation centered in its practice and provides resources for artists to create self-determined spaces.

via ・・・‼️ MISSING PERSON ‼️My little sister Caeli has been missing since 9/26. She was last seen in Tacoma,WA at Comp...
20/10/2024

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My little sister Caeli has been missing since 9/26. She was last seen in Tacoma,
WA at Comprehensive Life Resource Center.

Please share widely, especially if you are in or connected to the Puget Sound area. Please reach out if you have any leads. 🙏🏽 if you know anyone who has info please contact ❤️❤️❤️

This Thursday at - the mighty .nest takes the stage opening the show with and KAMRA - PULL UP - not to be missed for...
07/10/2024

This Thursday at - the mighty .nest takes the stage opening the show with and KAMRA - PULL UP - not to be missed for all the deep zoners and dancing freakers!

BONUS BEAST “Mental Decay” LP. Absolutely beautiful blown out zoned out industrial dance craze. In our bandcamp store an...
06/10/2024

BONUS BEAST “Mental Decay” LP. Absolutely beautiful blown out zoned out industrial dance craze. In our bandcamp store and webpage for just $10 this week only. Expect a new Bonus Beast dropping Ratskin style for 2025 but don’t leave without tapping into that store 🎤🎤

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hey, so the first Ratskin Records IRL show in over four years is tonight. It. would mean alot if you came out. Michael ...
27/09/2024

hey, so the first Ratskin Records IRL show in over four years is tonight. It. would mean alot if you came out. Michael T Ruiz and Stevie Richards are pulling up on the back end of their epic tour.

I don't know if it's worth going into a 2300 word rant about why I want you to come or just trust that you will, but I'm gonna trust that you will. Love yall

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT- the return of Ratskin Explastical Series - first event since 2020. Hope@you can out 7:30 PM - UNI...
27/09/2024

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT- the return of Ratskin Explastical Series - first event since 2020. Hope@you can out 7:30 PM - UNIMATRIX ZERO the + tour crashes oakland tonight at UNIMATRIX ZERO in North Oakland (DM for address)
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gift bags for the first 25 paid attendees 🕸️🕸️🕸️

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Mike Meanstreetz is a Los Angeles based multimedia artist whose non-tradtional craft seeds new genres while reaping the fallen fruit of old. Auditory, visual, and word rarely appear in the singular, most often materializing in a tangle of synaesthesia. His rigorerd wabi-sabi invites the daydream and its ushering of both resonant and dissonant perspectives/perceptions in an inclusive synthesis betweenst. Most of his work focuses on the improvised, situational and shared, and is rooted in the belief that collaboration is a practical divination of that fount pushing all. Sonically his practice primarily explores and expands upon both more metrical genre adjacent sensibilities and more fluid extended techniques via drum kit/percussion, musique concrete/electronic manipulation, and harmonically loaded electro-acoustic nylon MIDI triggered guitar. In these various modes he has performed throughout the US, Mexico and Europe. 

Stevie Richards is a DIY electronics and woodwind player and performer currently based in Naarm / Melbourne, Australia. Stevie has performed in Europe, United States, Mexico and Japan and is an active participant in the avant-garde / improvisation environment of Naarm / Melbourne. Stevie has performed in many past and ongoing ensembles worldwide playing noise, free jazz, ambient and electroacoustic music both as a soloist and through deliberate international collaboration.

This Friday at UNIMATRIX ZERO in Oakland. The first IRL RATSKIN show since COVID happens this Friday and we are honored ...
26/09/2024

This Friday at UNIMATRIX ZERO in Oakland. The first IRL RATSKIN show since COVID happens this Friday and we are honored to have a special A/V performance from GOLDEN CHAMPAGNE FLAVORED SWEATSHIRT.
Image courtesy of the artist.

From bandcamp:
GCFC synthesizes a masterful blend Of radically informed post industrial mayhem , heavy dance music, drone, and thrashing pummeling beats to create dense, psychedelic and complex compositions utilizing analog and digital synths, drum machines, and software as well as field recordings.

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27th - NORTH OAKLAND / DM FOR ADDRESS /
DOORS 7:30 MUSIC STARTS 8PM / $5-20 / MASKS STRONGLY ENCOURAGED/






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This Friday!!!!!!! The return of live show! HOPE YOU WILL PULL UP TO UNIMATRIX ZERO. North oakland. DM for address. Whe...
25/09/2024

This Friday!!!!!!! The return of live show! HOPE YOU WILL PULL UP TO UNIMATRIX ZERO. North oakland. DM for address. Wheelchair accessible, masks encouraged strongly!

Ratskin Records Explastical Series returns this Friday doors 7:30 Music 8PM sharp. $5-20 NOTAFLOF
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MIKE MEANSTREETZ & STEVIE RICHARDS


GOLDEN CHAMPAGNE FLAVORED SWEATSHIRT


ZACHARY JAMES WATKINS


LA MACACOA



MALOCCULSION opening 10 min set. 8PM SHARPPPP

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Zachary James Watkins studied composition with Janice Giteck, Jarrad Powell, Robin Holcomb and Jovino Santos Neto at Cornish College. In 2006, Zachary received an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College where he studied with Chris Brown, Fred Frith, Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros. Zachary has received commissions from Cornish College of The Arts, The Microscores Project, the Beam Foundation, Somnubutone Radio Series free103point9.org, sfsound and the Seattle Chamber Players. His 2006 composition Suite for String Quartetwas awarded the Paul Merritt Henry Prize for Composition and has subsequently been performed at the Labs 25th Anniversary Celebration, the Labor Sonor Series at Kule in Berlin Germany and in Seattle Wa, as part of the 2nd Annual Town Hall New Music Marathon featuring violist Eyvind Kang.

21/09/2024

Go watch the new Yama Uba “Shapes” video nowwwwww!

Ok folks big news - the first in person Ratskin show in over four years is happening THIS MONTH - September 27th at Uni...
12/09/2024

Ok folks big news - the first in person Ratskin show in over four years is happening THIS MONTH - September 27th at Unimatrix Zero in North Oakland, CA. $5-20 for artists. First 25 through the door get a special Ratskin gift basket for real.

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ZACHARY JAMES WATKINS


MEANSTREETZ + RICHARDS


GOLDEN CHAMPAGNE FLAVORED SWEATSHIRT


LA MACACOA


MALOCCULSION


Other artist spotlight posts to follow here’s the incredible

La Macacoa
La Macacoa is Puerto Rican Bay Area experimental sound artist Alexandra Buschman-Román (she/they). As a singer and improviser, they use multiple microphones, electronic hardware, and body gestures/movement to expand the voice. As a composer and electronic percussionist, they draw from Afro-Caribbean music and Taino (indigenous Caribbean) stories. Performances are mystical rituals.

Part of Alexandra’s roots are in the Puerto Rican classical and electronic music vanguard studying composition at the Music Conservatory with Manuel Ceide (Berio student), and Rafael Aponte Ledée (Ginastera student). They moved to Oakland in 2007 to study Composition and Improvisation with Fred Frith, Chris Brown, and Maggie Payne, and Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros at Mills College.

Alexandra is half of avant-tropical duo Las Sucias, with Danishta Rivero. They also perform and tour under monicker Demonsleeper, singing songs about nightmares and lucid dreams using dark ambient, drone noise, and heavy somnambulist pulses.

Photo: Adam Neal Gochnauer.

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ALERT ALERT some @_indiasky_ tour dates - following message from the artist - ・・・ ❤️‍🔥🎶Our west coast tour kicks off September 12th!🎶❤️‍🔥 🌀🕸️ So Below Tour 🕸️🌀 🌀9/12 Vancouver BC @thejamesblackgallery 🌀9/13 Seattle ~ @wanawariseattle with wares by @malcolmxartshop 🌀9/15 Portland ~ TBA! 🌀9/18 Oakland ~ @couchdate 🌀9/22 Los Angeles @itsinscope @sandu_ndu & @_indiasky_ join forces for So Below, an evolving project of our respective music and sonic collabs. We are playing 5 cities across the west coast, and incubating sonic collaborations with the ecosystems we pass through along the way❤️‍🔥 Come see us, and keep an eye out for updates along road🕸️

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