Cultural worker and hip hop pathfinder Gabriel Teodros stands poised to turn the clock backwards to reach the future. His sophomore solo effort, ‘Colored People’s Time Machine,’ is an examination of the history, dreams and future of native people everywhere. Not content to analyze the past, Teodros prepares listeners for a future free of the constraints of genre. Teodros’ range runs the gamut of human emotional expression, examining such personal experiences as depression, family loss, and lost and found love. Teodros, never content to be pushed into a box, enlists producers with sounds as divergent as those of Bean One (X-Clan, Black Sheep), Justo (The Physics) and Budo (Grieves), and collaborated with special guests, Meklit Hadero and Mexico’s Bocafloja. Teodros streams this synergy into his own veritable flux capacitor, shifting from true school head crushing kicks and snares (Blossoms of Fire), to future molded Kurzweilistic invisible piano stylings (Alien Native). Colored People’s Time Machine steps back in time on…

Track Listing

1. Blossoms Of Fire - Produced by Bean One
2. Mind Power - Produced by Bean One
3. Flow Throo ft. Madlines the Lioness - Produced by Phreewil
4. Alien Native ft. Sonny Singh - Produced by WD4D
5. Beit ft. Sabreena Da Witch - Produced by Amos Miller
6. Goodnight - Produced by Crispy
7. Diaspora ft. SKIM - Produced by Budo
8. Saturn’s Return ft. okanomodé, Cristina Orbé & Maya Jenkins - Produced by Budo
9. You A Star ft. Khingz - Produced by Phreewil & Dead Noise
10. Babylon By Bus - Produced by Dead Noise
11. Sarung Banggi ft. Rogue Pinay - Produced by EarDr.Umz The MetroGnome
12. Sangre Nueva ft. Bocafloja - Produced by Danny Beat
13. Sun & Breeze ft. Meklit Hadero & Amos Miller - Produced by JustD’Amato (of The Physics)
14. Colored People’s Time Machine - Produced by EarDr.Umz The MetroGnome
15. Ella Mable Bright ft. Meklit Hadero - Produced by JustD’Amato (of The Physics)
16. Still With You ft. SKIM & Amos Miller - Produced by Amos Miller

All tracks mixed by Dume41 and Gabriel Teodros at The Legion of Dume (Seattle, WA)

Except for “Beit” and “Still With You” mixed by Amos Miller at Buttermilk Studios (Seattle, WA)

“Sangra Nueva” mixed by Hache at Espadasofia Studios & Mastered by Noisemastering (Mexico City)

Mastered by Dume41 @ The Legion of Dume (Seattle, WA)

Illustrations and Cover by Julay (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)