Sound Propositions

It’s  been a tough year for New York. This episode we check in with Geng, the  man behind one of our favorite labels, Purple Tape Pedigree, and see  how these fine “purveyors of weaponized media and information” are  handling the pandemic and the uprisings. With live performance no longer  an option, the model of mutual support demonstrated by a crew like PTP  is all the more important. Geng tells us about the history of PTP, the  benefits of peer-support, community activism, and why it’s more  important now than ever to understand hip hop as spiritual music. Interview recorded between Montreal and Queens, May 2020 and January 2021 Produced and mixed in Montreal, February 2021 Read more at: http://acloserlisten.com/2021/02/19/sp-episode-17-before-the-internet-with-geng-ptp-podcast TRACKLIST ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR) Milford Graves with Sunny Morgan ‎–  – “Nothing 19” (Percussion Ensemble, ESP Disk, 1965) INTRO Raekwon/RZA – “Ice Cream (instrumental)” (O