Luckily, Swiss German, in written form, is the same thing as your basic
standard high, so I can help out a bit. The Migros "percent for culture"
seems to be calling the platter by two different names-- Migros Rmxs is the
header they used to refer to the project, but Migros Data is what was
printed on the surface of the record itself (along with an expiration date
and use before date in three languages). As far as what was printed on the
cover for the record, the graphic was too small to read, although "Migros
Remixes" seems plausible from the length of the words.
From the materials I could find, the record appears to be part of a larger
project on the part of the Migros company to "convert economic capital into
cultural capital". The disc consists of "remixes" of Migros itself, that
is, tracks made using sources from Migros materials, store music, music
concerts put on by Migros, sounds of shopping, and even interviews or
speeches given by Migros' founder.
The general organization operates under the name Migros Kulturprozent, or
"percent for culture" which refers to the company's giving up one percent of
their profits to cultural activities, although their specific orientation in
this particular project is to create an active interface between
economics/business and culture. It's either very, very cool or somewhat
insidious, depending on how you want to view it. I'm not familiar with the
company, but from looking a few other Migros Kulturprozent sites, they seem
awfully radical in aesthetic for a supermarket, which (at least in America)
tend to be extremely conservative institutions (so as not to offend or
deflect any possible food-consuming individual, i.e. anyone). If 80-90% of
American demographics aren't fully behind something, I wouldn't expect
Safeway to endorse or even acknowledge its existence. All in all, even
though some of Migros' "social" actions have taken the form of parks
surrounding their business campuses or fitness complexes, I'm reasonably
impressed.
Cheers,
M.
Julien Quint <julien.quint@imag.fr> wrote:
Le Mardi 12 Juin 2001 16:41, vis-you a ?crit :
quoted 9 lines So in case you missed them the first time around...
> >> So in case you missed them the first time around...
> >>
> >> http://www6.migros.ch:8001/kulturprozent/kulturbeutel/platte.htm
> >
> > can you tell me what is this release that i could dl the songs in mp3?
> > i just need to label them. thank you.
>
>Can anyone out there who speaks/reads german(?) answer this one? I can't
>and up till now, I've just been guessing.
Well, incredibly enough, it looks like the Migros of Switzerland has a kind
of cultural action that involves putting out idm compilations. Migros is the
leading supermarket chain in Switzerland.
http://www6.migros.ch:8001/kulturprozent/kulturbeutel/ has some kind of
explanation, but it is in Swiss German so I can only guess...
Julien
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