Here we have collected some of the most powerful audio collages of our times. These are the original documixes from Melki, aka Malik Russell, where the mix takes on an emancipatory quality. The standards of journalism have forever been altered – and made relevant! Melki is a former near-great hiphop emcee, hoopster, and journalist with a sick sense of humor, nasty jump shot and the ability to make pause-button mixes. A read-everything-holic, after leaving his day job he spends his waning moments attempting to make sense out of LIFE.
Documixology: An Interview with Malik “Melki” Russell
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Amos Wilson: Black Psychology
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JOB’s TALE: Vivid Portrayal of African Slave Trade
Voice Prints of the Ancestors
An audio-theatrical experience of Slavery and Resistance
THE MELKI WAY—Pulled from the old archives of the former Black World Today, Job’s Tale: Voice Prints of the Ancestors is a dramatic and moving journey from the shores of Africa and takes you through the ‘Middle Passage’ traveled by millions of brutalized and enslaved Africans to the shores of the so-called New World.
One of Melki’s original “documixes,” Job’s Tale was created and composed by Dr. Claire Nelson, the dynamic head of the Institute of Caribbean Studies. Job’s Tale brings to life the “Voice-Prints” of our ancestors through actual written testimony from enslaved Africans, Slavers, Ship’s Captains, and Plantation owners.
Not simply a tale of subjugation, Job’s Tale portrays the reality of African resistance to enslavement and details many of the actual innumerable rebellions that occurred on slave ships and plantations throughout the Caribbean and Americas.
“The 21st Century provides a new variety of technological-savvy means to repair the damage done by the Maafa (the African Holocaust) and Job’s Tale is one of them. Hopefully, this is an idea that will spread and be embraced as a means of educating our people and the world,” said Melki a.k.a “The Documixologist.”
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembered
Melki fuses rare Marvin Gaye grooves with hiphop, funky R&B, and soul music as a backdrop to some of MLK’s most poignant speeches. In Blak at Ya, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. discusses the following topics: Racism in America; America’s War Machine, Threats to his Life and the American Value System, in audio recordings culled from speeches rarely if ever heard by the American public.
Interjected, as well into the nearly 40-minute Documix are comments from various generations of African Americans about what MLK meant to them. One of the key questions asked was “Would things be different for African Americans if MLK were alive today?” The answers are both raw and powerful.
“I thought it insane for folks to attempt to co-opt MLK in one way or another, especially with so much of his audio out there for people to hear themselves,” said Melki, the author of 21 Hustle, a futuristic hiphop, sci-fi and mystical novel set in the year 2021. “If people can now transform MLK into a ‘conservative,’ then it’s not out the question to pick up a newspaper 50 years from now and see Dubya listed as a 5-time winner on Jeopardy,” joked Melki.
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THE POLICEBREWTOTALITARIANMIX!
The original documixologist Melki has returned! In a VoxUnion exclusive Melki, aka author, journalist and scholar Malik Russell, has come back with a most timely mix documenting the history and function of police brutality in this society. Melki continues to demonstrate the brilliance of the mix as journalism and exposes as fraudulent all that is considered/made popular mass media. Get this organic soul food for media diet! The official POLICEBREWTOTALITARIANMIX right here! The question remains, “will we be able to organize some effective responses and make real changes?”
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