Thought this might of interest:
The first thing that came my to mind was Skryabin's unfinished Mysterium.
I mean, this was the most mental idea whose outcome was supposed to be nothing else than the end of the world...
"Scriabin intended that the performance of this work, to be given in the foothills of the Himalayas in India, would last seven days and would be followed by the end of the world, with the human race replaced by 'nobler beings'.”
Too bad he never finished it.
pretty subversive
EL P - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF8NuE5AdNA
ALLFLAWS - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFcHz4pqIo
ATMOSPHERE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4zvYLxZuf8
Cee Lo Green - Fuck You
EL P
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These are not specifically anarchist, but express revolutionary socialist sentiment.
Style Council, Walls Come Tumbling Down!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElhC1jFz7-c
And Aztec Camera, Good Morning Britain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WyChNh_p-E
I like them
VT (hip hop collective who use folk samples from around the world) often have an anarchist message and are very working class - http://verbalterrorists.bandcamp.com/
I also saw Drowning Dog perform once (female anarchist mc) and she works with DJ Malatesta.
Try reggae anarcho-syndicalst stylee available from the ASF-IWA website. It features downloadable tunes from General Strike as well as The Sab-Cats.
Doesn't Comrade malone have a new album out soon?
Not this:
What's really funny about this one is that is made by a capitalist that has found a nice little niche in the alternative/life stylist scene, and is doing very nicely from it.
Stonking baseline though.
for those interested in industrial type stuff here's a band from Belgium
Keeping it simple - The Blackleg Miner:
General Strike now available on Soundcloud
The latest from General Strike:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/General-Strike/677702198927384?ref=hl
Witold Lutoslawski's Symphony No.3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK8gvqWEFpk about the Polish uprising against the Russian-backed police state - full of tension, hope, horror, repression, exultation and hectic random motion redolent of the news scenes at the time
Luciano Berio's Sinfonia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZpU7ZR3PXA written in 1968 about the French uprisings and using a multitude of sources for its text from Beckett and Levi-Strauss to the situationist-style wall slogans each broken up into its sounds and interacting on multiple levels, the running street battles and confrontations at the barricades, the sit-ins, the repression make up a lot of the musical subject matter contained within a vast theatre of collective memory
General Strike now available on Soundcloud
I am very confused. I couldn't listen to the latest as I don't do Facebook but listened to this one and I can't figure out what cheesy cod reggae with Rolf Harris playing lead on the Stylophone has got to do with anarchism???
Lugius wrote:
General Strike now available on SoundcloudI am very confused. I couldn't listen to the latest as I don't do Facebook but listened to this one and I can't figure out what cheesy cod reggae with Rolf Harris playing lead on the Stylophone has got to do with anarchism???
haha! Everyone should start soundtracking their riotporn with this stuff it would do wonders for the image of anarchism.
Anyway Webby I reccon you should come out of your closet now and do a three page thread with your own true music selection. I've been sensing some self censoring for a while now!
Webby wrote:
I am very confused. I couldn't listen to the latest as I don't do Facebook but listened to this one and I can't figure out what cheesy cod reggae with Rolf Harris playing lead on the Stylophone has got to do with anarchism???
Sorry about that, I posted the wrong link, try this:
https://soundcloud.com/lugius-commilito/federation-radio-edit
Webby wrote:
Lugius wrote:
General Strike now available on SoundcloudI am very confused. I couldn't listen to the latest as I don't do Facebook but listened to this one and I can't figure out what cheesy cod reggae with Rolf Harris playing lead on the Stylophone has got to do with anarchism???
haha! Everyone should start soundtracking their riotporn with this stuff it would do wonders for the image of anarchism.
Anyway Webby I reccon you should come out of your closet now and do a three page thread with your own true music selection. I've been sensing some self censoring for a while now!
Coo! The throwing down of a gauntlet, eh?
Alrighty then! Anarchist music? Well, I only know about the dreaded 'Anarcho Punk'. Yeah, I know it's pretty unpopular around here but to me it was extremely important and very exciting. There I was, 16 years old, interested only in music, clothes, drugs and girls and then I read the fold out sleeve of a Flux of Pink Indians single - it covered war, animal abuse and all the isms you can imagine. My head just fucking exploded! Life became so much more interesting and purposeful. Every aspect of life needed reevaluating. Nihilistic punk bullshit became the last thing that I wanted to aspire to. Punk was now a positive force that could do something worth doing instead of lining the pockets of revolting Westbourne Grove trendies like The Clash and their ilk.
The gigs were phenomenal! Crass and 15 other bands plus free soup at the squatted Zig Zag Club for 50p. The Ambulance Station squat in the Old Kent Road where I saw, amongst others, a 15 year old Bjork. In no time me and my mates formed a band and played at the Ambulance Station as well. We also toured with 2 of my favourite bands at the time - DIRT and Antisect. We were shit but they gave us a go and we had a blast!
The much maligned Crass started it and pretty much saw it through. I FUCKING LOVED CRASS!!! There energy, their dedication, their incredible artwork and most of all their brilliant sense of humour which all of the po faced haters never fail to miss. Ok, so they didn't offer a viable anarchist revolutionary theory - like I gave a fuck at that time. Through them I got my first glimpse into the stinking world of government, corporations and religion. I also got my first taste of feminism(check out the album Penis Envy), anti racism etc.
Certainly they could be labeled life stylists and I find lifestyleism to a pretty empty concept these days but I'm not going to throw the baby out with the bath water.
On the musical front, at the later stages some truly original and interesting music was made. Crass, Flux and Antisect smashed it, especially Flux - their Uncarved Block album still cuts the mustard to this day.
Say what you like, but at the very least anarcho punk woke up millions of young people to the shit that was happening in the world. Ok, so most of them did fuck all about it but many changed their attitude to a more honest and caring one.
It's easy, if it didn't affect you, to sneer at its impotence and many faults. Question it if you like but in the words of Crass, I would reply with my own question - 'and what if I told you to fuck off?!'.
As for my own music selection, maybe later. For now though, getting back to the OP, here is an anarchist playing some music:
Available for weddings, bar mitzvahs and funerals.
Well its the Sex Pistols of course silly!
I'm very disappointed with you lot - after months of holding back I finally put my pro anarcho punk position out there and no response. Where are the expected withering comments and the poker up the arse deconstructions? Not even a single down vote or a 'is that really you in the video Webby, you fat bastard'?
Pah! What a bunch of lamearse slackers.
I'm very disappointed with you lot - after months of holding back I finally put my pro anarcho punk position out there and no response. Where are the expected withering comments and the poker up the arse deconstructions? Not even a single down vote or a 'is that really you in the video Webby, you fat bastard'?
Pah! What a bunch of lamearse slackers.
I'm actually a vintage slack-dick mate!!
there is a record lable from Poland releasing anarchist songs on CDs- http://www.czsz.bzzz.net/czarny/contact (online contact form) they have CD called Freedom or Death with lots of Russian and Ukrainian anarchist songs about Machno, Anti-fascism , anarchism etc.. (they were working on English translation of lyrics but not sure if its finished),.
It seems that the web page is down from quite long.
Can anybody help me to find that songs? I offer myself to exchange revolutionary anarchist music. Contact me in my Twitter account: @Pez_Robot. Thanks in advance
Anarchist lyrics
Fuck is women's money.
We pay with our bodies.
There is no purity in our love.
No beauty. Just bribery.
It's all the fucking same.
We make soldiers with our submission.
Wars with our isolation.
Fuck is womens money.
We pay with our bodies.
There no purity in motherhood.
No beauty. Just bribery.
It's all the fucking same.
We are all slaves to sexual histories.
Our awareness of whoredom can be release.
War is mens money.
They pay with their bodies.
There is no purity in that game,
Only blood, death and bribery.
It's all the fucking same.
But we've got the power.
Don't just stand there and take submission on the strength of fear.
FIGHT WAR, NOT WARS.
I stumbled across this through a google search, and finally created a Libcom account just to reply. The anarchist/conscious/revolution music scene is absolutely HUGE and getting bigger every year Not all of these folks would self-identify, and not all of them are quite there with their philosophy, but they are all on the path at least. Here are some of my favorites (I will most likely end up editing as I remember more):
Since I'm typing this on a phone, and the ratio is very distinct, I'm only going to label the artists who are not hip-hop. After spending well over an hour making this list nice links to every one of these artists, the website told me that it was considered spam, so here's just the names I guess.
Alais Clay
Brother Ali
DISL Automatic
Dustin Thomas (Beat-Boxing, Acoustic Guitar, etc)
Fetti Profoun/The Profoun Poet
Freedom Movement (Jazz-Hop)
Jordan Page (Acoustic Rock)
Keith Wallace
Kite 9d3
Kurt David Robinson
MC Xander (Vocal Looping, Reggae-Hop)
Medicine for the People (World)
Metanoia (Big Band)
Michael Franti & Spearhead (Reggae-Rock-Hop)
Mike Love (Reggae)
Payday Monsanto
Peace Officer
Potent Whisper
Ralph Smart (Hard to Genre)
Rebelution (Reggae)
Rob Hustle
Shea Freedom (Hard to Genre)
Steve Grant
Soul Pros
The Polish Ambassador (Electronic)
Tommy Truther (Pop Rock)
Trillion (Hard to Genre)
Triumph (Rock)
Truniversal
Wandering Monks (Big Band Hip-Hop)
Wookiefoot (Reggae-Rock-Hip-Hop-Funk)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Anarchists (Punk/Metal)
If you have the links, please PM them to me and I'll add them or turn them into a library article.
For real, saw her live in Houston, great show, but she was a bit wasted