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b/art's Playlist for Maandag 15 November 1999 (17.30- 19.00)
Adventures in UNsound: no. 37: Anti-Consumption [No Shop Day = November 28] "The junk merchant doesn't sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client." WILLIAM BURROUGHS - The Naked Lunch | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Wreck This Mess Story (vocals only) #v03.o1299 | |
| Commercial Radio Out of Tune | Negativland [1-20 / Seeland] [0] |
| Hide | si-{cut}.db [1] |
| Intro / Journey (Paraspace Mix) | DJ Spooky [1x] |
| THEY OWN EVERYTHING | Copernicus [2] |
| Bleeps in the Wrong Campaign | Negativland [1-20 / Seeland] [0] |
| Sistrum/Grapheme | Ben Neill vs DJ Spooky [1x] |
| Dream Kitchen | Mark Stewart & the Maffia [Control Data] [3] |
| Prologue | Byzar vs Spooky [1x] |
| Snake Oil Symphony | Daniel Stephen Crafts [4] |
| Distractions | Fulcrum [5] |
| Byzar | Byzar vs Spooky [1x] |
| REE | Fagus Sylvatica [6] |
| Happy Shopper | Audio Active [Pay It All Back #5 / On-U] [7] |
| Pendulum Mesmer Wreck ID #0123mm.96 (see the outside edge of the record) | |
| PUM | Fagus Sylvatica [6] |
| Bourgeois Blues [Ledbelly] | Tav Falco & Panther Burns [8] |
| Cops 1 | Keith Levene [9] |
| SDI | Lee "Scratch" Perry [10] |
| "The US Postal Service opens over 300,000 letters per year to monitor illegal activity & dissidence" New York Times | |
| AD | Fagus Sylvatica [6] |
| A Job | The Ex [10a] |
| Take Things From Work | King Missile Dog Fly Religion [11] |
| Take This Job & Shove It [Merle Haggard] | Dead Kennedys [12] |
| IKE | Fagus Sylvatica [6] |
| Choose Life | PF Project & Ewan McGregor [13] |
| Wreck Your Broke Again Jingle #11w23.t97m | |
| SHOES | Fagus Sylvatica [6] |
| Vinyl & Polyester | Phenix [14] |
| Prologue | Sub Dub vs Spooky [1x] |
| Beef [Adrian Sherwood REremix] | Gary Clail & the On-U Sound System [End of the Century Party / On-U] [15] |
| All Fucked Up Now | DJ Odi [16] |
| Soundcheck | Sub Dub vs Spooky [1x] |
| Working for the Yankee Dollar | The Fugs [17] |
| Prologue | DJ Soulslinger vs Spooky [1x] |
| Bankers Song [Hans Eisler?] | Lindsay Cooper [18] |
| Munchogram | Freeform [19] |
| Rob a Bank | Pop Group [20] |
| Hot / Sexy / WTM #1124.697 | |
| [0] Negativland were the logical confluence of punk, ada and consumptive dissatisfaction in an age of easy montages they made difficult arguments and critiques like the best of Monty Python gone underground. | |
| [1] "Rate of Living" on Sprawl www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ is si-{cut}.db is Doug Benford who has recently worked with Scanner [Bovine Revolver] here putting jazz to drum and bass and electronic minimal blips to forge yet another hybrid of new musics to melodic kinetic and frenetic effect. Will be performing as part of the Triple X Festival here in Amsterdam on the evening of 26.11 at the Westergasfabriek. MORE INFO: www.triplex.nl | |
| [1x] "Necropolis: The Dialogic Project / Knitting Factory" | |
| [2] One of the amazing eccentrics of spoken word who fumigates somewhere between Captain Beefheart & Nostradamus: "They own you / they own everything in Russia in America in France ... / they own the tv stations / they own the radio stations / they own the musicians ... /" | |
| [3] Mark Stewart is my all-time fave Debord-at-the-controls post-situationist over-amped oracle: "You love objects because objects love you..." | |
| [4] His "Snake Oil Symphony" is one of the most inventive and apropos early montages of sound bite strategy [predates Negativland by 10 years] which so effectively and hilariously turns advertising and soap operas back upon themselves that we see the absurdity of the entire glitzy grimey enterprise: "He can create an appetite in a prospective customer who isn't hungry / selling isn't just limited to people called salesmen / we all have something to sell / the pastor sells his sermon to his congregation / the lover sell his love to his sweeheart .../ to create a mighty symphony of prosperity ..." | |
| [5] "Fulcrum" is Sue Ann Harkey's www.seanet.com/~cactusbones/fulcrum sonic foray into funky post-dub and beats meets message of electronic dysfunction. Her work continues to herald the ironic alienating effect of modern communication. Highly recommended. Samples: "kids are desensitized totally to their environment by their parents, by their upbringing and above all by television ... the more famous you are the more important you are ..." | |
| [6] "Reepumadike: Five Spots" is Fagus Sylvatica's sylvatica@free.fr solo post-Plunderphonics project where he takes 5 audio trax from 5 commercials by the big sports shoe manufacturers and compresses them into 5 bonbons of pure insubordinate genius. Since manufacturers have detourned every detournement it is [always] time to keep things (re)twisting in the wind. So what we say they take and what they say we take back. Limited edition. He wears a size 43 by the way and is working on a full CD of remixes and extrapolations. "Why that man all blurry / I smoked / I drank and I hadn't done a lick of exercise in my life ..." | |
| [6a] Clean Clothes Campaign http://www.cleanclothes.org The Clean Clothes Campaigns which are now organized in some dozen countries began in the Netherlands with the Schone Kleding Kampagne. Their goal is to improve working conditions in the garment industry, worldwide and promote the idea and implementation of a dignified living wage. The campaigns are coalitions of consumer organisations, trade unions, researchers, solidarity groups, world shops and other activists. The campaigns inform consumers via creative and clever actions about the conditions in which their garments and sportswear are produced and then pressure retailers to take responsibility for these conditions. The main demand is that they should accept a good code of conduct and a system of independent monitoring. The campaigns cooperate with organisations all over the world, especially self-organized groups of garment workers (including sweatshop workers, homeworkers and migrant workers without valid papers). | |
| [7] "Not thinking will be as quickly rewarded ..." / "Shopping is more American than thinking." Andy Warhol | |
| [8] Grungy and effective version of the great Ledbelly song | |
| [9] Keith Levene's post-PiL solo projects heavily influenced by Mark Stewart and Adrian Sherwood | |
| [10] The idiot-savant of neo-rasta ranting which combines a hodgpodge of comical mumbo jumbo, poetic genius, anarchic thought and alchemical sci fi prophecy. Perry takes on the entire nefarious world of crazy baldheads and wins: "I slew the Bank of England and I slew the Barclay's Bank ... I slew the ITT I nick the ITT ... I slew the IMF I nick the IMF ... I slew the FBI ... and I overthrow the different governments ... I live on the edge of oblivion ..." [10a] Some bands have that magical timeless quality. I think of the Fall and of course the Ex. They still make punk sound, well, vital and necessary without sounding like a bunch of nostalgia rockers. | |
| [11] The only song I like by this band led by the totally overrated LES darling navel-gazer John S. Hall. But this is a great one: "Take stuff from work / it's the best way to feel better about your job ... it's the best way to feel better about your low pay and appalling working conditions ... why buy a file cabinet, why buy a phone, why buy a personal computer, take'm from work ...it's a duty as an oppressed worker to steal from your employers ..." | |
| [12] Jello's pure and logical syncretic sound synthesizing Haggard's cynical country with California's impassioned hardcore. Nihilism renovated by activism: " I'm walkin out the door / Take this job and shove it / I aint workin here no more ..." | |
[12a] WAGES The wages of work is cash. The wages of cash is want more cash. The wages of want more cash is vicious competition. The wages of vicious competition is the world we live in. The work-cash-want circle is the vicious circle that ever turned men into fiends. Earning a wage is a prison occupation and a wage earner is a sort of gaol bird. Earning a salary is a prison overseer's job, a gaoler instead of a gaol-bird. Living on your income is strolling grandly outside the prison in terror lest you have to go in. And since the work-prison covers almost every scrap of the living earth, you stroll up and down on a narrow beat, about the same as a prisoner taking his exercise. a prisoner taking his exercise. This is called universal freedom. --DH LAWRENCE | |
| [13] 5 versions of the Trainspotting hit. Techno latent-consumerist punk: "Choose life ... choose your future, choose a job, choose a career, choose a television, choose a washing machine, guns, a compact disc player ... choose leisure wear and matching luggage ... choose DIY ... choose to sit on that couch to watch mind-numbing spirit crushing game shows..." and of course, don't forget to see the movie ehm! | |
| [14] "Regeneration" by Phenix on Brooklyn Music Limited www.bmlentertainment.com is pure insouciant punk house beats | |
| [15] Vegetarian activism with the brilliant sad mooing cattle blending perfectly with the operatic lilting shrieks: "BEEF, How low can you go / hear the cattle cry: 'death row'..." With Sherwood futzing brilliantly with his own version of the song to give it the capacious sonic feel of an abbatoir. | |
| [16] Great piece of drum & bass meets punk and noise on the "Park Rave Maddness" CD from Brooklyn Music Limited www.bmlentertainment.com. | |
| [17] If ever Walt Whitman could meet Bertolt Brecht it would be in a Marx Brothers flick where the Fugs play the Marx Brothers. Here they take the song "Rum & Coca Cola" made famous by the Andrews Sisters and give it a newer anti-imperialist spin: " both father and brother / working for the Yankee dolor, that's a pain man! ... the work is hard and the pay is few and the things you make don't belong to you ... but Workers of the World please listen to me, while you're at each other's throats you'll never be free / the bosses like it that you fight each other / but you oughta fight the bosses and not your sister and brother..." | |
| [18] "... it makes sense to go for order ... freeze those assets / cut the supply / drastic measures / it's do or die..." | |
| [19] "Me Shape" by Freeform on Sprawl www.dfuse.com/sprawl/ is a composition that utilizes the soundings gathered with a tape recorder from the urban intrusive ambience + rhythms of less-ambient noises. This is the strategy of revenge and turning the virus of everday noise back upon itself. Will be performing as part of the Triple X Festival here in Amsterdam at 22.00 on the evening of 26.11 at the Westergasfabriek. MORE INFO: www.triplex.nl | |
| [20]
Mark Stewart & the Pop Group take no prisoners and were arguably the
first to fuse funk, punk and social critique unless you count Sly & the
Family Stone or Funkadelic or ...
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[the anti-consumer campaign:
http://www.enviroweb.org/issues/enough/index.html]
Are You Happy? Have you ever bought a skin cream that changed your life? This is what adverts promise, but never deliver. A car that fulfilled your every dream? A Washing powder that made you deliriously happy?
WHAT DO WE REALLY GET OUT OF SHOPPING? You can't buy what the adverts offer... HAPPINESS? - In the knowledge that you are not consuming more than your fair share? FREEDOM? - From consumerist obsession? SEX? - Do it for real!!! COOL? - Be cool by not believing the hype BELONGING? - Spend more time with friends and family for a real feeling of belonging INDIVIDUALITY? - You've already got it It really doesn't matter what you wear, buy, eat or drink Another wasted Saturday spent pounding the streets? Working extra hours to clear that VISA bill before Christmas? Oh the joy of life on the consumer treadmill - work, earn, shop; work, earn, shop ... The richest fifth of the worlds population is able to monopolise 83% of its wealth, while the poorest fifth is left to subsist on only 1.5% and the gap continues to rise. Our affluence depends on their poverty. The environment cannot sustain even the present levels of consumption, let alone the prospect of the developing world coming 'up' to our 'standard of living'. Every bit of plastic packaging represents pollution and the depletion of a non-renewable resource. Every litre of petrol represents further global warming. Every mahogany loo seat means another bit of tropical rain forest gone forever. Never mind the price tag - we cannot afford to go on like this. Enough is Enough! But what can we do?????????????? Before you buy - THINK! Do you really need it? Can you make one? Can you do without it? Can you reuse, repair or recycle what you already have? If you feel you really do need to buy something - Can you buy it 'fair traded'? Can you buy it locally? Can you share it with others? Is there a more ethical option? For more information, please write to: London ENOUGH, c/o 5 Caledonian Rd, London, N1 9DX http://www.envirolink.org/issues/enough NO SHOP DAY NOV 28th Shop Less - Work Less? - Live More!To contact the 'Never Enough?' campaign you can Email:- ethicon@mcr1.poptel.org.uk | |