Colourful Environment Afro-Funk Mixtape (#12) Stream & Download

Colourful Environments contains over an hour of West African music, and its title speaks to the mix’s inclusion of everything from boogie funk jamming to psychedelic rock noodling.

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Colourful Environments contains over an hour of West African music, and its title speaks to the mix’s inclusion of everything from boogie funk jamming to psychedelic rock noodling. To deviate slightly from our usual mixtape tendencies, Colourful Environments is available only as a one mp3 download, without descriptions or song titles. Anonymity and mysterious origins, though, are not enough to stop the grooves.

Voodoo Funk is a blog dedicated to a diverse cross-section of West African music, with chronicles of Gossner’s stays in West Africa, Nigeria, and Ghana — and over 30 hours of additional music for you to download and stream.

Curated by Frank Gossner,
Force behind Voodoo Funk

Written by
Vee Hua 華婷婷

Vee Hua 華婷婷 (they/them) is a writer, filmmaker, and artist who splits their time between Oaxaca, Mexico, and Seattle, Washington. Much of their work unifies their metaphysical interests with their belief that art can positively transform the self and society. They are the Editor-in-Chief of REDEFINE, Interim Editor-in-Chief of International Examiner, and an Environmental Justice reporter at South Seattle Emerald. They also previously served as the Executive Director of the interdisciplinary community hub, Northwest Film Forum, where they played a key role in making the space more welcoming and accessible for diverse audiences.

Their latest short film, Reckless Spirits (2022), is a metaphysical, multi-lingual POC buddy comedy; the feature film version is slated for production in 2026. In 2025, they premiere their documentary short film, Hunt's Trading Post, set just outside of the Navajo and Ute Nations.

In 2017, Vee released the narrative short film, Searching Skies — which touches on Syrian refugee resettlement in the United States — and co-organized The Seventh Art Stand, a national film and civil rights discussion series against Islamophobia.

Vee has two narrative short films. Searching Skies (2017) touches on Syrian refugee resettlement in the United States; with it, they helped co-organize The Seventh Art Stand, a national film and civil rights discussion series against Islamophobia. Reckless Spirits (2022) is a metaphysical, multi-lingual POC buddy comedy for a bleak new era, in anticipation of a feature-length project.

Vee is passionate about cultural space, the environment, and finding ways to covertly and overtly disrupt oppressive structures. They also regularly share observational human stories through their storytelling newsletter, RAMBLIN’ WITH VEE!. They have a Master’s in Tribal Resource and Environmental Stewardship under the Native American Studies Department at the University of Minnesota and are pursuing a certificate in Incidencias en Problemas Socioambientales at the Universidad del Medio Ambiente in Mexico.

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