Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles. Since early 1989, Aztlan Underground has played Rapcore. Indigenous drums, flutes, and rattles are commonplace in its musical compositions.
This unique sound is the backdrop for the band's message of dignity for indigenous people, all of humanity, and Earth. Aztlan Underground has been cultivating a grass roots audience across the country, which has become a large and loyal underground following. Their music includes spoken word pieces and elements of punk, hip hop, rock, funk, jazz, and indigenous music, among others.
The artists are Chenek "DJ Bean" (turntables, samples and percussion), Yaotl (vocals, indigenous percussion), Joe "Peps" (bass, rattles), Alonzo Beas (guitars, synth), Caxo (drums, indigenous percussion), and Bulldog (vocals, flute).
Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.
Filmed in 92/93 released in 1994 on the documentary Frontierlandia by @desmothernista Ruben Ortiz and Jesse Lerner (We are thankful) Blessed to be joined with jefe Lazaro Arvizu and his beautiful Mexica/Tongva family Tonantzin and Citlalli of the first Aztec dance group in all of LA Tongva land @xipetotecla We are forever grateful for being our first teachers on this journey of decolonizing!
published: 04 May 2021
My Blood Is Red
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My Blood Is Red · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
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published: 12 Sep 2015
Aztlan Underground - Blood on your hands
Aztlan Underground - Sub-Verses (1998) - Blood On your Hands.
Revolution music.
http://aztlanunderground.net/blog/
http://aztlanunderground.net/blog/
published: 10 May 2013
Aztlan Underground - My Blood is Red
Aztlan underground - Decolonize (1995) - My Blood is Red
Revolution Music.
http://aztlanunderground.net/blog/
http://aztlanunderground.net/blog/
published: 10 May 2013
Aztlan Underground Decolonize
Official video
Aztlan Underground Sub-Verses Xican@ records and Film
Live footage captured at Sol Fest LA and DF-El Chopo and El Zocalo by various companeros for AUG. Content compiled by AUG and Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service. Edited by Che Castro of Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service productions.
"For us Aztlan is not a territory. For if we were to define it that way then we would subscribe to the western paradigm of "owning" land. What Aztlan means for us is the right to live according to the laws of nature and its habitats. This does not negate the traditional ties of native people but in fact enforces it. Anyone who refers to aztlan as specific territory to be taken over is sorely mistaken. It is awareness of identity and connection not coercion or reconquest as many minutemen es...
published: 22 Jul 2008
Aztlan Underground - Black Lives Matter (Official Video)
Black Lives Matter
Music and Lyrics
By : Aztlan Underground
Dir: Yao Yao
Xican@ Records & Film
“No Matter What They Ever Do To Us,
We Must Always Act For The Love
Of Our People and The Earth.
We Must Not React Out Of Hatred
Against Those Who Have No Sense”
- John Trudell
Stop the killings Its as simple as that,
Black lives matter its a given fact.
Yet black lives are under attack,
Cuz racism is still intact.
We are family on this Earth mother,
Interrelated Sisters and Brothers.
But Murder / impunity in the USA,
Is a system of the KKK.
Old Jim Crow is the new Jim Crow,
Including on the Rez and the Barrio.
It's systemic,
Endemic ,
An epidemic and
Therefore polemic, SO!
Check the policy and the police
Otherwise no justice no peace
Who's Street? Our Str...
published: 21 Aug 2020
Indigena
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Indigena · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
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published: 12 Sep 2015
Teteu Innan
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Teteu Innan · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
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published: 12 Sep 2015
Sacred Circle
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Sacred Circle · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
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published: 12 Sep 2015
Aztlan Unearthed Short Documentary
Aztlan/Anahuak Unearthed is an offshoot of Aztlan Underground aka Anahuak Underground. It is a homage to the original instrumentation of our ancestors. The music is primarily Mesoamerican. but includes instruments from all over the continent. This video release is in anticipation of an upcoming vinyl release on Jackknife/XRF records. It also pays homage to the resuscitators of the instruments via pioneers like #Tribu
Filmed in 92/93 released in 1994 on the documentary Frontierlandia by @desmothernista Ruben Ortiz and Jesse Lerner (We are thankful) Blessed to be joined with j...
Filmed in 92/93 released in 1994 on the documentary Frontierlandia by @desmothernista Ruben Ortiz and Jesse Lerner (We are thankful) Blessed to be joined with jefe Lazaro Arvizu and his beautiful Mexica/Tongva family Tonantzin and Citlalli of the first Aztec dance group in all of LA Tongva land @xipetotecla We are forever grateful for being our first teachers on this journey of decolonizing!
Filmed in 92/93 released in 1994 on the documentary Frontierlandia by @desmothernista Ruben Ortiz and Jesse Lerner (We are thankful) Blessed to be joined with jefe Lazaro Arvizu and his beautiful Mexica/Tongva family Tonantzin and Citlalli of the first Aztec dance group in all of LA Tongva land @xipetotecla We are forever grateful for being our first teachers on this journey of decolonizing!
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
My Blood Is Red · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
My Blood Is Red · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
My Blood Is Red · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Official video
Aztlan Underground Sub-Verses Xican@ records and Film
Live footage captured at Sol Fest LA and DF-El Chopo and El Zocalo by various compan...
Official video
Aztlan Underground Sub-Verses Xican@ records and Film
Live footage captured at Sol Fest LA and DF-El Chopo and El Zocalo by various companeros for AUG. Content compiled by AUG and Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service. Edited by Che Castro of Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service productions.
"For us Aztlan is not a territory. For if we were to define it that way then we would subscribe to the western paradigm of "owning" land. What Aztlan means for us is the right to live according to the laws of nature and its habitats. This does not negate the traditional ties of native people but in fact enforces it. Anyone who refers to aztlan as specific territory to be taken over is sorely mistaken. It is awareness of identity and connection not coercion or reconquest as many minutemen espouse."
Official video
Aztlan Underground Sub-Verses Xican@ records and Film
Live footage captured at Sol Fest LA and DF-El Chopo and El Zocalo by various companeros for AUG. Content compiled by AUG and Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service. Edited by Che Castro of Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service productions.
"For us Aztlan is not a territory. For if we were to define it that way then we would subscribe to the western paradigm of "owning" land. What Aztlan means for us is the right to live according to the laws of nature and its habitats. This does not negate the traditional ties of native people but in fact enforces it. Anyone who refers to aztlan as specific territory to be taken over is sorely mistaken. It is awareness of identity and connection not coercion or reconquest as many minutemen espouse."
Black Lives Matter
Music and Lyrics
By : Aztlan Underground
Dir: Yao Yao
Xican@ Records & Film
“No Matter What They Ever Do To Us,
We Must Always Act Fo...
Black Lives Matter
Music and Lyrics
By : Aztlan Underground
Dir: Yao Yao
Xican@ Records & Film
“No Matter What They Ever Do To Us,
We Must Always Act For The Love
Of Our People and The Earth.
We Must Not React Out Of Hatred
Against Those Who Have No Sense”
- John Trudell
Stop the killings Its as simple as that,
Black lives matter its a given fact.
Yet black lives are under attack,
Cuz racism is still intact.
We are family on this Earth mother,
Interrelated Sisters and Brothers.
But Murder / impunity in the USA,
Is a system of the KKK.
Old Jim Crow is the new Jim Crow,
Including on the Rez and the Barrio.
It's systemic,
Endemic ,
An epidemic and
Therefore polemic, SO!
Check the policy and the police
Otherwise no justice no peace
Who's Street? Our Street's
Will Never Be Defeated!
Bull Dog :
Scared white cop....
said the black kid fought...
blue blood 9mm pop....
Caught a bullet in the back said he wouldn't stop...
Shot like a dog and left to rot...
Now it's zero hour on the tower clock...
whose streets? our streets
on every mother fucking block...
Outlining your neighborhoods in white chalk...
whose streets? our streets"
In every suburban block.
Yaotl :
Of what could be the blind must see
Race, is a divide,
Keep, us colonized.
See, through their lies,
Black lives matter!
Ethan:
This just in beat cop went killing.
tried to justify the death of a dark skinned Villian,
Fear lies its all propaganda.
All in a square box i fucking tell ya.
Billy's club loves to beat down dark kin,
Fear the pig in tights not whats in,
Closets or the Attic since we were knee high.
Fuck the system that lets our kids die.
Not much changed since they got Rodney,
Michael Brown and Alton Sterling
Enough is Enough now lets start the Chatter.
Fist's up cuz black lives matter!
Check the policy and the police
Otherwise no justice no peace
Yaotl :
The rain will return for our humanity,
As we flourish in the lives lost.
I am a son a war,
not easily forgotten !!
Stop the murders
- Freddie Grey -
Stop the killings
- Sam Dubose -
Black lives matter
- Philando Castille -
Stop the murders
- Walter Scott -
Stop the killings
- Jamar Clark -
Black lives matter
- Eric Harris - Jeremy Dole -
- Terrence Crutcher -
Its a given fact
Black Lives Matter
Music and Lyrics
By : Aztlan Underground
Dir: Yao Yao
Xican@ Records & Film
“No Matter What They Ever Do To Us,
We Must Always Act For The Love
Of Our People and The Earth.
We Must Not React Out Of Hatred
Against Those Who Have No Sense”
- John Trudell
Stop the killings Its as simple as that,
Black lives matter its a given fact.
Yet black lives are under attack,
Cuz racism is still intact.
We are family on this Earth mother,
Interrelated Sisters and Brothers.
But Murder / impunity in the USA,
Is a system of the KKK.
Old Jim Crow is the new Jim Crow,
Including on the Rez and the Barrio.
It's systemic,
Endemic ,
An epidemic and
Therefore polemic, SO!
Check the policy and the police
Otherwise no justice no peace
Who's Street? Our Street's
Will Never Be Defeated!
Bull Dog :
Scared white cop....
said the black kid fought...
blue blood 9mm pop....
Caught a bullet in the back said he wouldn't stop...
Shot like a dog and left to rot...
Now it's zero hour on the tower clock...
whose streets? our streets
on every mother fucking block...
Outlining your neighborhoods in white chalk...
whose streets? our streets"
In every suburban block.
Yaotl :
Of what could be the blind must see
Race, is a divide,
Keep, us colonized.
See, through their lies,
Black lives matter!
Ethan:
This just in beat cop went killing.
tried to justify the death of a dark skinned Villian,
Fear lies its all propaganda.
All in a square box i fucking tell ya.
Billy's club loves to beat down dark kin,
Fear the pig in tights not whats in,
Closets or the Attic since we were knee high.
Fuck the system that lets our kids die.
Not much changed since they got Rodney,
Michael Brown and Alton Sterling
Enough is Enough now lets start the Chatter.
Fist's up cuz black lives matter!
Check the policy and the police
Otherwise no justice no peace
Yaotl :
The rain will return for our humanity,
As we flourish in the lives lost.
I am a son a war,
not easily forgotten !!
Stop the murders
- Freddie Grey -
Stop the killings
- Sam Dubose -
Black lives matter
- Philando Castille -
Stop the murders
- Walter Scott -
Stop the killings
- Jamar Clark -
Black lives matter
- Eric Harris - Jeremy Dole -
- Terrence Crutcher -
Its a given fact
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
Sacred Circle · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
Sacred Circle · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
Sacred Circle · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Aztlan/Anahuak Unearthed is an offshoot of Aztlan Underground aka Anahuak Underground. It is a homage to the original instrumentation of our ancestors. The musi...
Aztlan/Anahuak Unearthed is an offshoot of Aztlan Underground aka Anahuak Underground. It is a homage to the original instrumentation of our ancestors. The music is primarily Mesoamerican. but includes instruments from all over the continent. This video release is in anticipation of an upcoming vinyl release on Jackknife/XRF records. It also pays homage to the resuscitators of the instruments via pioneers like #Tribu
Aztlan/Anahuak Unearthed is an offshoot of Aztlan Underground aka Anahuak Underground. It is a homage to the original instrumentation of our ancestors. The music is primarily Mesoamerican. but includes instruments from all over the continent. This video release is in anticipation of an upcoming vinyl release on Jackknife/XRF records. It also pays homage to the resuscitators of the instruments via pioneers like #Tribu
Filmed in 92/93 released in 1994 on the documentary Frontierlandia by @desmothernista Ruben Ortiz and Jesse Lerner (We are thankful) Blessed to be joined with jefe Lazaro Arvizu and his beautiful Mexica/Tongva family Tonantzin and Citlalli of the first Aztec dance group in all of LA Tongva land @xipetotecla We are forever grateful for being our first teachers on this journey of decolonizing!
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
My Blood Is Red · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Official video
Aztlan Underground Sub-Verses Xican@ records and Film
Live footage captured at Sol Fest LA and DF-El Chopo and El Zocalo by various companeros for AUG. Content compiled by AUG and Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service. Edited by Che Castro of Mal Ojo/Chicano Secret Service productions.
"For us Aztlan is not a territory. For if we were to define it that way then we would subscribe to the western paradigm of "owning" land. What Aztlan means for us is the right to live according to the laws of nature and its habitats. This does not negate the traditional ties of native people but in fact enforces it. Anyone who refers to aztlan as specific territory to be taken over is sorely mistaken. It is awareness of identity and connection not coercion or reconquest as many minutemen espouse."
Black Lives Matter
Music and Lyrics
By : Aztlan Underground
Dir: Yao Yao
Xican@ Records & Film
“No Matter What They Ever Do To Us,
We Must Always Act For The Love
Of Our People and The Earth.
We Must Not React Out Of Hatred
Against Those Who Have No Sense”
- John Trudell
Stop the killings Its as simple as that,
Black lives matter its a given fact.
Yet black lives are under attack,
Cuz racism is still intact.
We are family on this Earth mother,
Interrelated Sisters and Brothers.
But Murder / impunity in the USA,
Is a system of the KKK.
Old Jim Crow is the new Jim Crow,
Including on the Rez and the Barrio.
It's systemic,
Endemic ,
An epidemic and
Therefore polemic, SO!
Check the policy and the police
Otherwise no justice no peace
Who's Street? Our Street's
Will Never Be Defeated!
Bull Dog :
Scared white cop....
said the black kid fought...
blue blood 9mm pop....
Caught a bullet in the back said he wouldn't stop...
Shot like a dog and left to rot...
Now it's zero hour on the tower clock...
whose streets? our streets
on every mother fucking block...
Outlining your neighborhoods in white chalk...
whose streets? our streets"
In every suburban block.
Yaotl :
Of what could be the blind must see
Race, is a divide,
Keep, us colonized.
See, through their lies,
Black lives matter!
Ethan:
This just in beat cop went killing.
tried to justify the death of a dark skinned Villian,
Fear lies its all propaganda.
All in a square box i fucking tell ya.
Billy's club loves to beat down dark kin,
Fear the pig in tights not whats in,
Closets or the Attic since we were knee high.
Fuck the system that lets our kids die.
Not much changed since they got Rodney,
Michael Brown and Alton Sterling
Enough is Enough now lets start the Chatter.
Fist's up cuz black lives matter!
Check the policy and the police
Otherwise no justice no peace
Yaotl :
The rain will return for our humanity,
As we flourish in the lives lost.
I am a son a war,
not easily forgotten !!
Stop the murders
- Freddie Grey -
Stop the killings
- Sam Dubose -
Black lives matter
- Philando Castille -
Stop the murders
- Walter Scott -
Stop the killings
- Jamar Clark -
Black lives matter
- Eric Harris - Jeremy Dole -
- Terrence Crutcher -
Its a given fact
Provided to YouTube by CDBaby
Sacred Circle · Aztlan Underground
Decolonize
℗ 1995 aztlan underground
Released on: 1995-01-01
Auto-generated by YouTube.
Aztlan/Anahuak Unearthed is an offshoot of Aztlan Underground aka Anahuak Underground. It is a homage to the original instrumentation of our ancestors. The music is primarily Mesoamerican. but includes instruments from all over the continent. This video release is in anticipation of an upcoming vinyl release on Jackknife/XRF records. It also pays homage to the resuscitators of the instruments via pioneers like #Tribu
Aztlan Underground is a fusion band from Los Angeles. Since early 1989, Aztlan Underground has played Rapcore. Indigenous drums, flutes, and rattles are commonplace in its musical compositions.
This unique sound is the backdrop for the band's message of dignity for indigenous people, all of humanity, and Earth. Aztlan Underground has been cultivating a grass roots audience across the country, which has become a large and loyal underground following. Their music includes spoken word pieces and elements of punk, hip hop, rock, funk, jazz, and indigenous music, among others.
The artists are Chenek "DJ Bean" (turntables, samples and percussion), Yaotl (vocals, indigenous percussion), Joe "Peps" (bass, rattles), Alonzo Beas (guitars, synth), Caxo (drums, indigenous percussion), and Bulldog (vocals, flute).
Aztlan Underground appeared on television on Culture Clash on Fox in 1993, was part of Breaking Out, a concert on pay per view in 1998, and was featured in the independent films Algun Dia and Frontierlandia.
Well here's something they missed Self D means self determination To put a stop to colonization We begin with a historical analysis To illustrate a Mexican paralysis See Mexico's been occupied since 1848 Which left the mexicano at a constant 2nd rate Now learn the word called colonization Stranger in your own land under exploitation This is the state of the indigena today Under the oppression of the settlers way (2x) WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US! (3x) YET THE SETTLER NATION LIVES IN DISGUST! The American dream only for some Play the role and forget where you came from Now check it, this is their reality And just because its wasp holds no validity WASP-White Anglo Saxon Protestant The frame of mind that keeps our oppression constant You try to be white and its very respectable But be Xicano and its highly unacceptable Then we're termed hispanic as if we were from Spain Trying to insert us in the American game And we're called wetbacks like we've never been here When our existence on this continent is thousands of years This is the state of the indigena today Under the oppression of the settlers way (2x) WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US (3x) YET THE SETTLER NATION LIVES IN DISGUST Â repeat To the earth, to the air, to the fire, and to the water.... The eagle and condor have met We must realize Our connection to this land Till a Hopi and a Mexica can really understand That invaders divided indigenous people Under english, french, or spanish it make us all feeble Unable to recognize each other From Xicano to Lakota all sisters and brothers In the spirit of Pontiac, all the red keepers of the earth mother From the top of Alaska to the tip of South America Abya Yala, Anahuak, Turtle Island 506 years of indigenous resistance The prophecies are coming true The redemption of the red people has come! The 6th sun now arises The 7th fire has arrived Cihuatl is reclaiming We have returned to Aztlan We have returned to Aztlan!!!! WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US (3x) YET THE SETTLER NATION LIVES IN DISGUST!! GET THE FUCK OUT, GET THE FUCK OUT, GET THE FUCK , FUCK, FUCK OUT GET THE FUCK OUT WASICHU EATER OF THE FAT WASTER OF EARTH MOTHER AND PEOPLE COLONIZER OF AZTLAN AND THE WORLD
They’ve recorded nine albums and won a Grammy along the way, yet they’ve never been too interested in commercial success or selling out huge venues ... of ... riots, which also gave rise to other Chicano-fusion bands like Ozomatli and AztlanUnderground ... 19 ... .