[?]
These are links to some of the major sections in the mixtape collective.
- Lists: Browse various lists that are generated by the loads of data we have collected.
- Contests: Check out the latest contests, see previous winners, and find out how you can be a part
- Music: Check out our ever-growing database of musical knowledge! Use it to find any artist, album, or track that has been entered since the birth of the site and rate and find detailed usage statistics.
Main
[?]
Tired of looking at the same old pages? Try checking out a random
one, you never know what you might find...
Random!
Ode to Situationniste Internationale
| Ode to Situationniste Internationale | |
| Created by: | O_O |
| Tracks: | 10 |
| Length: | 00:44:40 |
| Keywords |
1. anarchism 2. art 3. punk |
| Created on | 7/29/06 12:32am |
| Level | 6 |
| Points | 2925 |
| Total visitors | 148 |
| Unique visitors | 70 |
description:
There are lots of people who think that politics are just an obligation, to be fulfilled whenever necessary.
There are also a lot of people wo think art is something to be passively experienced. In gallerias, theaters, wherever.
Those people don't get it. Politics doesn't simply affect you everyday life, politics is a part of your everyday life, whether you like it or not. These are my politics, this is my life.
Similarly, it is not art that imitates life or life that imitates art...life simply is art, and art is life. Art is not something to be passively experienced, art is only art when it is paticipatory.
This is an ode to Situationalist International...those people who realized the poverty of everday life could only be changed through art. These songs are about isolation, solitary confinement in a prison without walls, but which is impossible to escape from. These songs are about mass media, about control. And most importantly of all...these songs are about art as the revolutionay's only recourse.
More than an ode, however, this is a challenge. Read DeBord. Read Vaniegem. Read Adorno, Focault, Marcuse. Only don't take what they say for gospel, just because they're dead now. Think critically. Educate yourself, because the only class they're teaching anymore is, "Becoming a Gear 101"
Side note: You may notice tha the length seems a bit short. This is not because of a lack of material or lazinesss, although you are free to see it as the latter if you like; but as to the former i have to object. There were several songs that i wanted to include but couldn't due to the time constraints of this chosen format. Side two of the tape is intended to be occupied by twenty-one minutes of static, followed by twenty-four minutes of complete silence. This is intended to be referential to Guy DeBord's famous (or infamous) film, Howlings in Favor of Sade, which is simply white frames with a soundtrack of speaking, intersparsed with black frames and silence. The final twenty-four minutes fall into the latter catagory; a black screen with complete silence.
There are also a lot of people wo think art is something to be passively experienced. In gallerias, theaters, wherever.
Those people don't get it. Politics doesn't simply affect you everyday life, politics is a part of your everyday life, whether you like it or not. These are my politics, this is my life.
Similarly, it is not art that imitates life or life that imitates art...life simply is art, and art is life. Art is not something to be passively experienced, art is only art when it is paticipatory.
This is an ode to Situationalist International...those people who realized the poverty of everday life could only be changed through art. These songs are about isolation, solitary confinement in a prison without walls, but which is impossible to escape from. These songs are about mass media, about control. And most importantly of all...these songs are about art as the revolutionay's only recourse.
More than an ode, however, this is a challenge. Read DeBord. Read Vaniegem. Read Adorno, Focault, Marcuse. Only don't take what they say for gospel, just because they're dead now. Think critically. Educate yourself, because the only class they're teaching anymore is, "Becoming a Gear 101"
Side note: You may notice tha the length seems a bit short. This is not because of a lack of material or lazinesss, although you are free to see it as the latter if you like; but as to the former i have to object. There were several songs that i wanted to include but couldn't due to the time constraints of this chosen format. Side two of the tape is intended to be occupied by twenty-one minutes of static, followed by twenty-four minutes of complete silence. This is intended to be referential to Guy DeBord's famous (or infamous) film, Howlings in Favor of Sade, which is simply white frames with a soundtrack of speaking, intersparsed with black frames and silence. The final twenty-four minutes fall into the latter catagory; a black screen with complete silence.
tracklist
| 1 | Godspeed You! Black Emperor : Nervous, Sad, Poor... |
|
I was unaware until now how significantly the LP version of this record differed from the cd version. "Dead Fl [...]
SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 1 from f# a# infinity LP
Length: 00:20:39 Year: 1997 |
|
|
Track Description:
I was unaware until now how significantly the LP version of this record differed from the cd version. "Dead Flag Blues," which was the track i intended to originally use on this mix, is prettymuch nonexistant as a standalone track, instead it's this one which is about four minutes longer. I'm sure you may be wondering why i went with this over the other one, and it's not because i needed to take up more time. The reason is because i have f# a# infinity on LP, not on cd. So to really make this mix, i am using the LP. Now, i'd also like to say that the opening monologue, which is from an incomplete film about the penal system that Efrim is working on, works as an amazing introduction: both to f# a# infinity, and this mixtape, as it's themtically and ideologically in line with the ideas i'm trying to convey here. As another note, i'd like to say this is by far my favorite Gospeed song. SHOW LESS
|
|
| 2 | Ampere : Away From the Bright Lights |
|
Mixtapes have to have dynamics. And sometinmes, i think, that means to not so much let the songs flow into one [...]
SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 1 from Split 5" with Welcome the Plague Year
Length: 00:00:50 Year: 2005 |
|
|
Track Description:
Mixtapes have to have dynamics. And sometinmes, i think, that means to not so much let the songs flow into one another, as to use a song to "wake a person up." To make them clash in contrast to one another, so that when heard one right after the other, the effect is jarring and maybe even somewhat shocking. I think this song, fifty seconds of screaming noise in contrast to the previous song's twenty minutes of serene post-rock, should have that effect on the listener. "i woke up to dead time and said... 'there is something in your streets that feeds some spectacle, and there is something in my eyes that says to burn it down.' there's no place in my heart for failed critiques, empty words, boredom." SHOW LESS
|
|
| 3 | The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower : Safety Is Of |
|
"watch as the machinery becomes you the speed is exhilarating" SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 12 from Dissertation, Honey
Length: 00:02:33 Year: 2003 |
|
|
Track Description:
"watch as the machinery becomes you the speed is exhilarating" SHOW LESS
|
|
| 4 | Mohinder : Division |
|
"They tell us to obey and we obey division. We don't have to obey if we have it timed just right. Some things [...]
SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 16 from Everything
Length: 00:01:04 Year: 0000 |
|
|
Track Description:
"They tell us to obey and we obey division. We don't have to obey if we have it timed just right. Some things are never secrets. Division is not a secret." SHOW LESS
|
|
| 5 | Wolves : 10. |
|
"this is our reality built upon creative thought a society's destruction as the new form of art [...] SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 6 from Split 7" with Ampere
Length: 00:02:32 Year: 0000 |
|
|
Track Description:
"this is our reality built upon creative thought a society's destruction as the new form of artistic action this is where we face up to it and learn to live" SHOW LESS
|
|
| 6 | Palatka : The State Of 6pm |
|
"This lapse of 'traditional' values is a prime-time broadcast, but as surreal as it may seem, it's just a vagu [...]
SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 1 from The End Of Irony
Length: 00:00:50 Year: 1999 |
|
|
Track Description:
"This lapse of 'traditional' values is a prime-time broadcast, but as surreal as it may seem, it's just a vague re-working of a past collapsed." Mass media is a very important tool to the people in charge. If you control the information people are given, you control their opinions, their thoughts. SHOW LESS
|
|
| 7 | the Fisticuffs Bluff : Pre-Installed |
|
"What to do when the rush is for madness? Something has scratched out our senses, clean, with all it's media d [...]
SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 2 from Split 7" with Carbomb
Length: 00:02:58 Year: 0000 |
|
|
Track Description:
"What to do when the rush is for madness? Something has scratched out our senses, clean, with all it's media darlings. You know, there exists children who could care less about your attention. They're trying to convert history into more than 'what it means to me.' So your kindness, it doesn't count for shit, not when it's pre-installed. And your sentiments, they don't count for shit, not when they're pre-installed to watch. Whom swallows whom, whom swallows whom? This life is ours, not yours to cover...that soul kiss was for yourself." SHOW LESS
|
|
| 8 | Portraits of Past : The Control Freak |
|
"and i wonder who the invisible bondsman is. over shoulder, checking to see if anyone is watching, waiting for [...]
SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 5 from Discography Length: 00:07:33 Year: 2003 |
|
|
Track Description:
"and i wonder who the invisible bondsman is. over shoulder, checking to see if anyone is watching, waiting for the struggle that won't come. against the bonds of what i cannot do, what i cannot show, what i cannot lose. and i know that i will remain shut in, because the metal door is locked from the inside. it's just me and myself against the world." SHOW LESS
|
|
| 9 | La Quiete : Metempsicosi Del Fine Ultimo: Nevrastenica Oscillazione Fra Poli Estremi |
|
The first two lines of this song translated into English says: "the cultural industry organizes ent [...] SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 2 from La Fine Non È La Fine
Length: 00:02:55 Year: 2004 |
|
|
Track Description:
The first two lines of this song translated into English says: "the cultural industry organizes entertainment and styles reaching he complete levellings of the individuals" And while Theodor Adorno (author of The Culture Industry) was not a member of SI, the ideologies put froward by the aforementioned group and by the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory had more than simply a "they're both marxists" similarity to them. SHOW LESS
|
|
| 10 | Orchid : None More Black |
|
Other people would've chosen a different Orchid song, i have no doubt. I'm sure "Le Desordre C'Est Moi" would' [...]
SHOW MORE
|
|
|
Track 18 from Gatefold
Length: 00:02:46 Year: 0000 |
|
|
Track Description:
Other people would've chosen a different Orchid song, i have no doubt. I'm sure "Le Desordre C'Est Moi" would've been picked by a lot of people, or maybe "Victory is Ours." And a few people would definitely have gone with "Mean S.O.B." with it's final line of "Work hard ethic is a LIE." But fuck them, this is my mix. And i think that this song is a perfect ending to this tape. "Are you defined by this false desire? Has this false satisfaction put out the fire? Get righteous. Get right." SHOW LESS
|
Tag Board
The MLK Badge
Because Civil Rights rock (and roll).
awarded on 2009-03-07
Level 18
Great concept. First track is fantastic, and the only I've heard. I'm very intrigued. :)
7/19/08 06:18pm
Team Robot Member
Despite the fact that TEAM ROBOT was crushed like a Pabst can at a frat party by the might claws of TEAM MONSTER, you are still deserving of a badge... Loser.
awarded on 2006-10-18
Level 40
I don't know much of the music but your explanations and concept are superb!
1/27/07 02:54pm
The Valentine's Day 2007 Badge
Happy Valentine's day from the MTC staff. We really love you guys. That said, put your pants on and get out before we call the cops.
awarded on 2007-02-14
Level 18
very thoughtful. good job. as for the words of wisdom, i think you're forgetting the importance and necessity of thoughtlessness and whimsy as a part of life and dealing with problems. the machine may be controlling, but malcontent is plaguing. points from me.
8/24/06 11:18am
The Badge of Mystery
Huh?!? Where did this come from?
awarded on 2008-08-14
Level 26
Christ, how did I miss this mix? Fantastic concept and execution. I think this is a candidate for uploading.
8/04/06 11:04am
Team Robot - First Place
A special badge for the first-place winner of the fabled robots vs. monsters mixtape contest. As my boy Johnny 5 would say, "Robot Team kick your ass, Robot Team Kick your face, Robot Team kick your balls into outer space"
awarded on 2006-10-18
Level 28
hearing that voice proclaim "the cars on fire" still sends shivers down my spine. youre ideas are beautiful.
8/04/06 10:59am
