{"product_id":"tygapaw-together-you-gather-all-power-applied-worldwide","title":"TYGAPAW - Together You Gather All Power Applied Worldwide","description":"\u003cp\u003eMay 2026 marks the arrival of TYGAPAW (aka Dion McKenzie)’s first full-length album on Tresor Records, entitled Together You Gather All Power Applied Worldwide. An acronym of its creator’s name, TYGAPAW’s third studio album is a deeply personal collection of music building worlds where Black queer and trans siblings can thrive, while unifying dancefloors worldwide. A proposition that collective wisdom liberates us from the matrix of domination we live within. The album unfolds as the latest chapter in TYGAPAW’s ongoing techno opera opus, continuing to center the voices of Black women, which surface as layered incantations rather than lyrics - powerful, haunting, sensual, activating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the process of creating the album starting in 2023, as TYGAPAW (Dion McKenzie) was in the first year of their\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etransition, the music reflects the intensity of that period, where they were experiencing deplatforming as a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eresponse to the shift in their physical appearance: Tracks like ‘M32 Riddim’ and ‘Helicopter hovers over my Crown\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeights Apartment’ feature high-paced rhythms intersecting with intense siren-like synths to form demanding\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecompositions echoing a heightened sense of alert. Yet throughout the album, relief comes in the form of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTYGAPAW’s vocal features, co-conspirators, and chosen family, whose voices are treated with reverb and echo, a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esonic fingerprint that leads back to the pioneers in the legendary studios of TYGAPAW’s native land, Jamaica, an\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eimportant reminder that the past will always inform the future. It is an album for dancers first and foremost, where\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ejoy, defiance, and integration with the natural body coexist, and every drop feels less like a climax than a\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etransformation. Expect a bass that permeates your soul and melodic synthesized sequenced phrases echoing the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003edancehall eras of TYGAPAW’s youth, reshaped into hypnotic melodies that glow over industrial kicks designed to\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ecommand attention, reasserting Jamaica's pioneering yet often overlooked contribution to electronic music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the opening track, ‘Can I Live’, Precious Okoyomon’s words feel like the beginning of a ritual; setting the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eintentions for the rest of the proceedings. As McKenzie puts it, their “work is about regeneration, resetting, getting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eintegrated into nature, and about rebirth. That’s the tone I wanted to set at the outset of the album.” Ms Carrie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStacks continues this thread of support in ‘Don’t Panic’ with heavily processed vocals on top of a beat that takes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003einspiration from another important ingredient in the antidote to the oppression of isolation: Ballroom culture. “ I feel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003elike I found my queerness in Ballroom, that’s why this track is very important to me.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEchoes of NYC Black queer nightlife scene also permeate in the energetic drums of ‘Exorcise the Language of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDomination’, in which Julianna Huxtable’s spoken performance complements the various movements and tones of\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethe music. “My producer brain thought this was the one that Juliana’s vocals would be best suited for. I hinted:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘what do you think of this one?’ She just went into her notes and picked some passages to go with the first section\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eof the track. From there, it was a year-long process of development. It required time and space for this thing to\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eevolve, but I think it’s one of the most powerful tracks on the album.” London’s SUUTOO contributes the album’s\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eonly musical collaboration on ‘B2B’, a track that emerged from sessions in McKenzie’s New York studio where the\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereal objective was to connect and have fun; a time out from the demands of life outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe album closes out with a double hit of emotion in the form of ‘Effects of Resistance and Black Trans Masculine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExperience’. The former features South African scholar Khanyisile Mbongwa drawing connections that exist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ebetween Africa and the Black diaspora, whilst looking to the future and calling for a shared sense of community.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe latter piece, an instrumental version of the piece which featured on the IMMIGRANT E.P. of 2025 is a gentle and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003edeeply affecting end to the record, a place of peace and acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis end-of-cycle tone is mirrored in the sleeve photography, which also ties back to IMMIGRANT by finally\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003erevealing what was hidden: a portrait of the artist fully self-actualized; a step towards true inner liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTYGAPAW is sonically defiant across this album; bass frequencies feel tactile — less heard than inhabited —\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003einfectious lead synth melodies remain with you long after the track ends. An overall sound that leaves asserting an\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eurgent need for connection. From Detroit to New York to Berlin to Jamaica, despite geographic distance, this album\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ereminds us that we remain in solidarity, recognising that meaningful world-building requires collective input and\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eaction, both personal and communal, if we are to move toward liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tresor","offers":[{"title":"Gatefold Sleeve 2LP","offer_id":56484117840252,"sku":"HJM-07916","price":33.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/9022\/0535\/files\/85a211111d2ebd04e51216fc40553448.jpg?v=1773260712","url":"https:\/\/heyjoemusic.co.uk\/products\/tygapaw-together-you-gather-all-power-applied-worldwide","provider":"Hey Joe Music \u0026 Coffee","version":"1.0","type":"link"}