I agree with you and strongly feel electronic music could (and should) help
to expose the political injustice. Ideally I think every creative movement
should help to expose this considering it is the arts that suffer most. I
think the fact that much electronic music is instrumental is a bit of a
hurdle, but there are other ways to make a political statement with actually
speaking it. I really like Herbert's Radioboy concept (sampling sounds of
various corporate products being dismanteled).
I produce and I recently took about 2 hours of Bush speaches and switched
the words around to say completely fucked up (but realistic) statements
about civil liberties, war, children, minorities, you name it. I am putting
together a laptop set that will showcase these reconstructed set to hard
driving techno/electro and a friend of mine will be doing live video images
of Hitler and other taboo political images that coincide with dictatorship,
war and destruction. It's a bit extreme, but I think we need to be at this
point. Our country has been hijacked GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!
Please no one bitch about this being on the IDM site. I love and support IDM
and I do feel this subject is very relevant.
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quoted 37 lines From: Sean Smith <sean_djblues@yahoo.com>
>From: Sean Smith <sean_djblues@yahoo.com>
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>Subject: [idm] Re: political thread
>Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 12:09:02 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I really hate to quote bumper stickers, but this thread made me think of
>one I saw recently - "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention."
>I don't think any thoughtful music should be apolitical at this time in
>history. What's the point of being apolitical in times like these? What I
>mean by saying that is that all of our basic liberties are being threatened
>by the politics that some are choosing to ignore.
>Our governments consider our music political! They look at underground
>electronic music, and they see a political movement. We are all part of a
>demographic whether we like it or not. They don't care whether the people
>making the music are sitting in their bedrooms ignoring politics. I'm no
>conspiracy theorist or anything, but over the thirteen years that I've been
>a part of the electronic music scene, I've seen many laws passed and
>wrongly enforced that seem to be trying to single out this "apolitical"
>music.
>I believe that the biggest difference that anyone can make in this messed
>up world is through personal interaction. I have way more respect for
>artists like Herbert, Timeblind, Matmos, Coldcut, etc, than I do for
>artists whose politics are a mystery to me, and it sounds like some other
>people on this list feel similarly.
>
>"i'd like to say that more artists should express their political
>views more. music can be a very powerful tool when it's used properly and
>plus we need a public enemy-type element in this sound..."
>
>I completely agree. It's wierd that the political atmosphere (in regards to
>music) that surfaced during the Reagan/Bush years hasn't come about
>recently, even with the current political atmospheres in the US/UK
>
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