Produced and conceived by Irish producer Mick “t-woc” Donohoe, the album is the unintentional soundtrack to a 1970s Brazilian educational comic book, fusing together hip-hop, electronic music, and dub to tell a strange-but-true story of discovery.

In 2014, Donohoe visited a recently opened warehouse in Sao Paulo nicknamed the Feira de Uma Milhao LPs (the Million LP Fair) — appropriate as the place was filled to the brim with records. Together with a friend, Donohoe began a five-day trawl through 7” records looking for gold beneath the dust. As they packed up to leave Donohoe spotted “a quirky, colorful little comic” and stashed a couple copies among his finds. Back at home, Donohoe found the comics while cleaning and listening to the records for samples. Unable to read Portuguese he imagined its tale as that of a little girl, Hermacia, on a space adventure where she encountered robots and aliens. The comics came with their own record, which was missing, and so the idea became to use the vinyl stash to recreate the soundtrack to Hermacia’s adventure.

The album will be performed with the help of a live visual journey through the Sentinelas story book with the help of Darren Kirwan.

This event is part of BFI Black Star Wildstyles day: One day, three classic hip-hop movies, celebrating the originators, the innovators, the MCs and the beatmakers who created a cultural revolution.

Other BFI Black Star Wildstyles films include:

Wild Style

Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest

Straight Outta Compton