From Moonlight Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 23:27
From Moonlight Sent Tue, May 11th 1999, 23:27
>how is the song built? what makes it political/ideological? Starts with a solemn, somber groove and many small snippets of voices, people saying things like "Guilty of violence agaisnt the earth" "all that is left is a single question: at which tree do we stop?" "all the younger geneartions here they've all got your number. you're obsolete." The song builds, breaks down, more political uprising vocal snippets, the song builds again to its height. Protests, people screaming. "Till the next time a tree gets in the way of progress." Great. The video is even better, with the actual footage of people protesting, trying to keep thier neighborhoods from being destroyed and police trying to evict them. Listening to it, i now wish that Takemura would have chosen this track to remix. Timber is in the same vein, a though more fun, but with a message that really only comes from the liner notes or video. All the sounds come from forests, deforestation footage, etc. The "drums" are from people cutting down trees by axe, "guitars" are chainsaws, and the vocal is from a woman from a rainforest. Atomic Moog 2000 is an anti-nuke song, with vocal snippets like "we can destroy them and contaminate them" "i made the run, let the bomb go, that was my greatest thrill" "atomic military buildup can be reversed" "outlaw the bomb" Boot the System (on single only) contains computer-generated lyrics (i forget the program, but rdj uses it for the respect list) about "genocide" and "babylon system" and asks "why do our governments promote war?" "Weapons they sell...to make this whole planet hell." According to liner notes, dedicated to CAAT (Campaign Against the Arms Trade). And on the Jello Biafra song "every home a prison", the politics are all from Jello's rant. >weren't "Pan Opticon" and "Timber" done in tandem with a Greenpeace video >project? Not Pan Opticon as far as the liner notes show, but both the singles for "Timber" and "Atomic Moog 2000" are dedicated to greenpeace. >too bad i don't like coldcut that much. i don't see much of a point in >getting music just for the free propaganda. :) actually i wonder who would. Well, i bought "You've got the fucking power" (DHR comp) even though i generally hate their music. But that had other factors besides their funny ideology: only $.99, annoys roomies more than me, hope that there was a great alec empire song on it. There wasn't. np: Thurston Moore "Root" Alec Empire remix _________________________________ Adam Roesch / xxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx Augsburg College / Minneapolis / MN / USA Visit my Fila Brazillia/Pork Recordings fan site: http://dogbert.augsburg.edu/~roesch/pork/ "The only disease we need in our blood is love" TRICKY