The Volume #1 introduces many independent bands and artists with strong social messages and songs that make people think and dance. This socially responsible dance-floor compilation starts with the words of Davi Kopenawa Yanomami, the shaman and spokesperson of the Yanomami natives in today’s Brazil. His words are crucial to understand the challenges we are facing and how much we still have to learn from those people. It ends with a song dedicated to Bety Cariño, a social activist from Oaxaca brutally murdered by the colonial powers and their hit-men. Like so many other things in the small universe of Tropical Diaspora® Records this compilation album is 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 travelling across the borders of Europe and the Americas. Dj Garrincha’s trips have taken him to meet artists and ignite relations that are meant to last. It can be Chicago, São Paulo, Medellin, Berlin, Barcelona, Olinda or San Juan. We are committed to add new Diaspora cities into our web of places and people to care about. And this precisely describes how we experience displacement and diaspora communities. They help us not only to produce music but also to build our own identity as human beings and, of course, as record label too. We care about displacement and the communities that grow from it.