Tag: military industrial complex
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Hannah Williams & The Affirmations
I was digging around tracks sampled on departure’s Graduation Demos (very good btw) and she did a remix of Jay=Z’s 4:44, a track I didn’t know (I hd long tuned out Jay before all the Bey/Becky drama) which samples Bristol group Hannah Williams and The Affirmations ‘Late Nights & Heartbreak’. It being 3am and having…
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Don’t Get Captured
Loving Chris Hopewell’s work (Burn The Witch) and the new video for Run The Jewel’s storming ‘Don’t Get Captured’ brings the politics of gentrification, an uncaring justice system and the military industrial complex to claymation (not a sentence I thought I’d write). This song was a highlight of their Glastonbury set, which pointedly kicked the…
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Just bring home my motherfuckin’ brothers and sisters
Today was brought to you by this Sage Francis song – this one goes out to those who are posting about veterans and Armistice Day, or wearing poppies. Who would you die for? ‘Just bring home my motherfuckin’ brothers and sisters.’ – amen. It’s why I posted ‘Speak no evil’ pictures earlier including this one…
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Ground Shelter (Hope & Fear) – two topical mashups
(after Shepard Fairey) OK I’ve been working on this mashup of Stereo MC’s vs Rolling Stones vs Benga vs Fun Boy 3 for a while – kind of a State of the Nation address in a mashup as regards how I felt in the run up to the US election, Georgia v. Russia, Iran and…