Radio Discordia 018: T.A.Z. - Hakim Bey and Bill Laswell

T.A.Z. [Temporary Autonomous Zone] Anti-Copyright 1992

Explorations of the political, the personal, the social, and the metaphysical from writer and spoken word artist Hakim Bey. A meld with musical terrorist Bill Laswell.

Bey advocates nearly everything, including creating free states for like-minded cabals and collectives. He recommends marginalized groups form secret societies and concludes with a lengthy piece on boycotting cop culture. Musique concrete cloaks his words in an eerily seductive melange of avant-garde noise and ambient music. But the sounds are almost immaterial. Bey's words are the primary focus of this disc.

A swirling, surreal vertigo of information and methods for "escape", woven with the kind of airy tones and hallucinatory rhythms that Laswell has been playing with lately, Bey's voice calms and prepares the listener for an age where missing information and the icons of late capitalist high-tech correspond with an increasing alienation of this "X-generation"'s most primitive needs. Most of all, Bey doesn't come across as a cheesy, overzealous, visionary bard, but presents us with ideas point-blank, allowing us to be choosy in aiming our own forms of poetic terrorism against those forces that attempt to suppress and homogenize humility and free thought.

01 Chaos
02 Poetic Terrorism
03 Amour Fou
04 Immediatism
05 The Tong
06 Boycott Cop Culture

Published by Axiom Records 1994


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Radio Discordia 017: The Kleptones - Yoshimi Battles the HipHop Robots

Behold, and observe... "Yoshimi Battles The Hip-Hop Robots"

Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots is a 2003 bastard pop album by The Kleptones. It combines instrumental tracks from The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots with vocal tracks from Eminem, 50 Cent, Dead Prez, Pharcyde, The Beastie Boys, Missy Elliott, Blackalicious, Busta Rhymes, Martin Luther King, Jr., Public Enemy, Q-Tip, The Streets, Eric B & Rakim, and Bill Hicks.

Fight In The Club
Song Of The Hip-Hop Robots
Sympathy For The Almighty
Love Song For Yoshimi
Battle Sequence
My People Feel That Way In The Morning
Chess Game At The Gates Of Hell
Are You A Visionary?
Breathe In The Summertime
Have You Come To Realize
All We Have Is Soul
Last Words (A Tribute)

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Radio Discordia 016: One-Eyed Doll - The Kimberly Freeman Files Vol 01

One-Eyed Doll is the award-winning Austin, Texas based rock and roll trio led by guitarist and singer Kimberly Freeman. Freeman's wild stage antics, theatrical presentation, tough guitar chops and acrobatic moves have earned her unprecedented recognition in the world's live music capital. Winner of Austin Music Awards “Best Punk Band 2009 & 2010".

From 2007 to 2008 with the release of the debut album, Freeman's small community cult following exploded into a global fan base, setting a new standard for the modern independent guerrilla DIY business structure.

Kimberly's stunning voice and innovative rock guitar style backed by the unbreakable rhythm section of PJ Evans (aka Number Three) on bass and Jason Rufuss Sewell (aka Junior) on Drums. Freeman's songwriting is unrelenting touching on subjects as harrowing as child abuse, social injustice, and love that ends in murder. This intensity is balanced with light-hearted songs like "Beautiful Freak" a love song to her unique fans and "Bumble Bee" about a young girl's first encounter with the seemingly friendly insect. One-Eyed Doll doesn't hesitate to reveal what's on her mind. To contrast the disturbed images of desperation, One-Eyed Doll also stands strong for what she believes. She won't tolerate players, abuse, or hypocritical America.

While these albums arent available in stores as of yet, it can easily be bought at the One-Eyed Doll website (oneeyeddoll.com), or better still, at one of their many kick-ass local live shows."

01 Suicidal Serenade
02 Be My Friend
03 Brief Candle
04 See Jane Run
05 Bumble Bee
06 Redneck Love Song
07 Pretty Song
08 Sucker Fish
09 Monster
10 Hole

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Radios Discordia Short Story audio: The Rebranding of Billy Bailey by Cory Doctorow

The Rebranding of Billy Bailey, a short story about Brand Management Ad Absurdum.

What if that kid at school, who is always the trend setter, were actually a brand funded by the products he is seen using and wearing?

This story is purely satirical, and it maintains its clever and inventive pace throughout. Billy Bailey is a sixth-grade kid, and a heel, a professional heel; that is to say he maintains an image as a class prankster and brat. And he has an agent to handle his endorsements and help maintain his image. But when a hostile principal and a slimy but rich fellow student frame him for a clumsy prank unworthy of his style, he decides it's time to change. It's time for rebranding.

Copyright Cory Doctorow. Some rights reserved under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license.





This story appears in the collection A PLACE SO FOREIGN AND EIGHT MORE, published in 2003 by Four Walls Eight Windows press.

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Radio Discordia 015: This Living Hand - The TV Sounds Worried

Mississippi's contribution to '90s slowcore, This Living Hand played haunting, downbeat songs that evoke a 3 a.m. of the soul. Founded by childhood friends Neilson Hubbard and Clay Jones (later joined by violinist Helen Lamb). After adding drummer Garrison Starr, the band recorded 'Consolation Prize' at Memphis' legendary Easley Studios.

After a short tour with Jack Logan, the band cut The TV Sounds Worried. While retaining the narcoleptic drift of Consolation Prize, the songs are more focused and structured (check out "Copilot" or the sublime "Astronaut"). Jones' sensurround production and Hubbard's Dean Wareham-on-ludes warble are both showcased to dazzling effect. A lost classic, The TV Sounds Worried went unissued even after promotional copies were circulated in advance of its scheduled release.

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Radio Discordia 014: Michael Parenti - The Arrogance of Empire

Los Angeles, CA. 13 Oct 2003

Michael Parenti is one of this country's foremost independent political analysts. He has taught at major colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad.

He is the author of numerous books and writings which cover a wide range of subjects: U.S. politics, culture, ideology, political economy, imperialism, fascism, free-market orthodoxies, conservative judicial activism, repression in academia, news and entertainment media, technology, environmentalism, sexism, racism, the wars in Iraq and Yugoslavia.

Perhaps his most influential book is "Democracy for the Few", now in its eighth edition, a critical analysis of U.S. society, economy, and political institutions and a college-level political science textbook published by Wadsworth Publishing.

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Radio Discordia podcast 013: TRYAD - Public Domain

TRYAD Cultural Revolution Through Copyright Reform

Tryad: Four members; Vavrek and Arna in Seattle, John Holowach in Ohio, and RJ Marshall in Japan — combined musical talents through the open copyright licensing options at Creative Commons.

Creative Commons, a non-profit organization, allows owners of intellectual property to license, for free, their work so that others may build upon it. Tryad plans on continuing the generosity they have built themselves upon by licensing their content in the same fashion, hoping to be the first successful musical group to do so.

"What we have here is the dawning of a modern day renaissance. Much like how the advent of the printing press brought about drastic scientific and social revolutions, we are experiencing a creative explosion brought about using internet technologies and open licensing. This cultural revolution is happening on a global scale." -Vavrek.

The group, which had its origins through the open source music site Opsound.org, says they plan on offering all their music under a license that allows alterations to be made to the music, even for commercial purposes, as long as other artists will use the same license on the new works.

"Starting a revolution isn't easy. "However, I do hope that we will be the first step in a long line of more allowances for shared creativity and cultural openness." - Holowach

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