""Down and dirty sounds of
the oppressed. RICANSTRUCTION get hardcore, both musically and lyrically
in their quest to kick the ass of race and class supremacy through
music. A refreshing sound amidst the white noise.”
- The Village
Voice
"From colonialism and imperialism
to racism, sexism and militarism, RICANSTRUCTION tackles the difficult,
rejoices in rebellion, and kicks the ill linguistics that should be ruling
music right now. That's power"
- Philadelphia
City Paper
“A fusion of all the amazing
music you’ve ever heard, and everything you’ve never heard, Ricanstructed
into subversive sounds. This is a crash-course on the struggle of all marginalized
and colonized people.”
- Ugly Planet
Magazine
“What might have happened if Santana had jammed with the Sex Pistols… dangerous and fresh sounding in the best rock and roll tradition." - The Boston Phoenix
"This is the official soundtrack
of the revolution that’s coming… and proof that punk is not dead and still
ain’t found a home in suburban malls."
- Badazz Mofo
Magazine
"RICANSTRUCTION brings the
attitude, energy and consciousness needed for music today. Their voice
and message comes straight off the streets, and their music is right
side up in an upside down industry. They should be heard"
- Chuck D of
Public Enemy
"RICANSTRUCTION spits manifestos that pistol-whip an insurgence in the blood..." - Philadelphia Inquirer
“With their angry, eclectic
and experimental fusion of
hardcore hip-hop, and salsa
and their no compromise stance to free Puerto Rico, NYC’s RICANSTRUCTION
have added a new and unique vision to the world of political punk, and
forced us to ask ourselves just how liberated are we?”
- Profane Existence
Magazine
“RICANSTRUCTION is setting
fire to underground NYC
with a powerhouse blend of
hardcore punk and Afro-Caribbean rhythms that compel head-banging as much
as hip-shaking. Musical realness doesn’t come our way often or this powerful.”
- Fist Magazine
"If Che Guevara were around
today this is the one CD he would have in his backpack."
- Scrawl Magazine
"They1ve been described as
salsa-core subversives, political puerto punks and rasta-rican revolutionaries
call them whatever the fuck you want to, this shit is the bomb."
- Stress Magazine
"A Latino punk rock band with
their kind of message has a hard row to plow."
- Hilly
Kristal owner of CBGB
"Ricanstruction may be the
one thing that can rebuild, redefine, and save
the political punk rock movement."
- Michigan
Independent
"For the length of time Ricanstruction
is on your CD player you will believe
that the time is ripe for
revolution."
- Rock N Roll
Fairy
"This hardcore Nuyorican foursome1s
music is a political timebomb."
- Frontera
Magazine
" I give them a year
until the CIA shuts them down."
- The Flashing
Astonisher
"This is Beyond your Average Protest music.... Listen because your Life may depend upon It." - RadioMike
RICANSTRUCTION
From left to
right: Not4Prophet - voice, Arturo - bass,
Taina -
voice, Joseph - drum, Albizoo
- guitar.
Brandishing a DIY stance, counter-corporate credo and revolutionary message for the masses, the enigmatic underground art-army known as RICANSTRUCTION is once again rising from the sub-terrain to take their musical militancy to a riot near you. With Love + Revolution, their latest and first release on UPRISING RECORDS, they have crafted an innovative in-your-face fusion of political punk, hardcore hiphop, rebel reggae and incendiary salsa that sounds like the seditious sonic soundtrack for a revolution you can dance to.
Love + Revolution is a powerful and provocative concept record (remember those?) that grapples with the dichotomy of the personal and political, the struggle for love and revolution in a world of hate and apathy. RICANSTRUCTION are joined by Chuck D of Public Enemy, Vernon Reid of Living Colour, Chuck Treece of McRad/Pressure/Bad Brains, Dead Prez and other special guests on this Puerto punk party at ground zero.
Called “the most dangerous band in the underground” by I-Propaganda magazine, the cult collective known as RICANSTRUCTION was formed some obscure evening around 1996 by vocalist Not4Prophet, and riddim section subversives Arturo and Joseph Rodriguez. The Rodriguez brothers were the bass and drum Boricua bombers who had held the beat down for everyone from post Cro-Mag punk project BOTH WORLDS to Blues great Johnny Copeland to Nuyorican poets Pedro Pietri and Piri Thomas as well as the legendary salsa supergroup known as the FANIA ALL STARS. Not4Prophet was a poor man’s poet known mostly for writing on “private” property, breaking windows, breaking laws and shouting in the street.
RICANSTRUCTION started out playing in the asphalt schoolyards and housing project playgrounds of Harlem, and the illegal squats and alternative punk spaces of the Lower East Side in New York City, and could be seen and heard at nearly every political protest, demonstration, rally or riot that you could possibly get arrested at.
Along
the way they recruited current guiterrorist Albizoo, and former ANTI PRODUCT
sub-verse singer Taina Del Valle Asili, and have (self) released DIY and
indie underground records, performed for Latin American insurgents and
on military bombing zones, and continue to (irregularly) smash, subvert
and otherwise screw up the status quo and make some rad-ical music while
they’re at it.
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