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The following is the beginning of a discussion which began here. It seemed like potential Dissensus material, so here you go...
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So Freedom will be on the rampage for another four years. I'm hoping that, at the very least, we get some good Agit-tronic music out of this mess.
More DJ/Rupture and Mutamassik. Muslimgauze clones. <a href="http://delza.alliances.org/taz/taz5.html">Go Croatan!</a> More capture of code: politicized relicks of the violently inert; new mash up scenes built on something more substantial than retro cred. Funny not dour. ADF, PE and Le Tigre offspring. More anti-war Hip Hop. Politcal Grime? Anything.
For the most part, electronic musics have tended to favour the apolitical route. During the Clinton coma, we Squarepushed, Auteched, Ovaled, etc. - making and consuming a lot of sound for its own sake. But I think its time the usually latent political potential of our musics was more fully developed. Instead of ironic cool lets have unabashed, earnest belief.
Let's not think in terms of scenes, authenticity or virtuosity. Agit-tronics can be all sounds of like mind. DJs, sound makers, video makers, first timers.
Explicit, or implicit in their potential - here my rushed and hugely incomplete preliminary list of Agit-tronics:
DJ/rupture and Nettle <a href="http://www.negrophonic.com/">@ Negrophonic </a>
DJ/rupture v. Mutamassik <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/316298">"Shotgun Wedding"</a>
Muslimgauze <a href="http://pretentious.net/Muslimgauze/">site</a>
Aaron Spectre/MashIt <a href="http://www.mashit.com/djmixes.html">"No More Destruction Mix"</a>
Slaughter Mob <a href="http://www.juno.co.uk/IP/IF130786-01.htm">"Saddam"</a>
Madvillain <a href="http://www.stonesthrow.com/records/sth2065.html">"Strange Ways"</a>
I'll add more as I find it and have time. Please add, exapand, discuss.
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So Freedom will be on the rampage for another four years. I'm hoping that, at the very least, we get some good Agit-tronic music out of this mess.
More DJ/Rupture and Mutamassik. Muslimgauze clones. <a href="http://delza.alliances.org/taz/taz5.html">Go Croatan!</a> More capture of code: politicized relicks of the violently inert; new mash up scenes built on something more substantial than retro cred. Funny not dour. ADF, PE and Le Tigre offspring. More anti-war Hip Hop. Politcal Grime? Anything.
For the most part, electronic musics have tended to favour the apolitical route. During the Clinton coma, we Squarepushed, Auteched, Ovaled, etc. - making and consuming a lot of sound for its own sake. But I think its time the usually latent political potential of our musics was more fully developed. Instead of ironic cool lets have unabashed, earnest belief.
Let's not think in terms of scenes, authenticity or virtuosity. Agit-tronics can be all sounds of like mind. DJs, sound makers, video makers, first timers.
Explicit, or implicit in their potential - here my rushed and hugely incomplete preliminary list of Agit-tronics:
DJ/rupture and Nettle <a href="http://www.negrophonic.com/">@ Negrophonic </a>
DJ/rupture v. Mutamassik <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/316298">"Shotgun Wedding"</a>
Muslimgauze <a href="http://pretentious.net/Muslimgauze/">site</a>
Aaron Spectre/MashIt <a href="http://www.mashit.com/djmixes.html">"No More Destruction Mix"</a>
Slaughter Mob <a href="http://www.juno.co.uk/IP/IF130786-01.htm">"Saddam"</a>
Madvillain <a href="http://www.stonesthrow.com/records/sth2065.html">"Strange Ways"</a>
I'll add more as I find it and have time. Please add, exapand, discuss.
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