In which GRMMSK
mostly plays tracks from the URBAN FOLK SONGS compilation on 1000+1
TILT Recordings, makes an advertisement for the next Noisecafe @ Mökämik
and wishes Z’EV a fast recovery from the trauma recieved during the
trainderailing in kansas.
Andre Borgen - Fra Kjellerdypet Nr 6
F.N.S. - The Chimney Sweeper
Straiph - Infra-dig
Like Defeated Soldiers Of A Long Forgotten War - Losing With Style
Details found Rollins to be such an appropriate role model for the struggling young businessman not only because of his music-product, but because of his excellent “self-styled identity. Although he derives it from the quality-maximizing wisdom of the East rather than the unfashionable doctrines of Calvin, Rollins’ rebel posture is identical to that fabled ethic of the small capitalist whose regimen of positive thinking and hard work will one day pay off. His recent spoken-word account of touring with Black Flag, delivered in an unrelenting two-hour drill-instructor staccato, begins with the timeless bourgeois story of opportunity taken, of young Henry leaving the security of a “straight job,” enlisting with a group of visionaries who were “the hardest working people I have ever seen,” and learning “what hard work is all about.” When describing his relationship with his parents for the readers of Details, Rollins quickly cuts to the critical matter, the results that such dedication has brought: “Mom, Dad, I outgross both of you put together,” a happy observation he repeats in his interview with the New York Times Magazine.
Despite the extreme hostility of punk rockers with which Rollins had to contend all through the 1980s, it is he who has been chosen by the commercial media as the godfather of rock `n’ roll revolt. It is not difficult to see why. For Rollins the punk rock decade was but a lengthy seminar on leadership skills, thriving on chaos, and total quality management. Rollins’ much-celebrated anger is indistinguishable from the anger of the frustrated junior executive who finds obstacles on the way to the top. His discipline and determination are the automatic catechism of any small entrepreneur who’s just finished brainwashing himself with the latest leadership and positive-thinking tracts; his poetry is the inspired verse of 21 Days to Unlimited Power or Let’s Get Results, Not Excuses. Henry Rollins is no more a threat to established power in America than was Dale Carnegie. If you’re unhappy with your lot, the Culture Trust tells us with each new tale of Rollins, if you feel you must rebel, take your cue from the most disgruntled guy of all: Lift weights! Work hard! Meditate in your back yard! Root out the weaknesses deep down inside yourself! But whatever you do, don’t think about who controls power or how it is wielded.
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— From “Commodify Your Dissent”, Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland. Should be noted that this was written around the time of “Liar”, which was the peak of Rollins’ cultural relevancy. Frank himself is no outsider. He come of age as an artist in the Wichita punk scene of the 1980s, and was friends with the likes of The Embarrassment. (via urbankill)
As i’m not hibernating as i should, with this kind of view from my cell, there has been a lot of advertisement for my other projects [COLDSORE, TOTES FORMAT + METSÄÄN] recently. While gazing at the snow slowly melting; why not listen to this:
Handstamped white c-30 chrome tape cassette in white snap-case with
professionally printed double sided J-card cover (one side per project)
and handstamped banderole made from recycled blueprints. Numbered
edition of 50 copies, released by TOTES FORMAT & LIBERTATIA OVERSEAS
TRADING in 2016. —
All sounds on this recording have been made
with selfmade electronic + electromechanic
generators + manipulators. The voicesamples
have been ripped from other sources. These
have been recorded + edited in metsään studio
in Nuuksio.
LIVING HUNGRY has been released on the
[we saw human guinea pigs explode] benefit
compilation for the Simonn community, a London
based homeless support group, released by
cutwail records in 2015, support the project
and download from www.cutwail.bandcamp.com
BUILDING WALLS is inspired by recent border-
politics, not only in europe. after fear tactics
have been effectively used on wide parts of
the population, the masses follow their
leaders in demanding what they have been
offered: to shut themselves in + others out.
nationalism + racism go hand in hand. We
strongly oppose both, plus all states, (not
only the hate-mongering postfascist ones de-
scribed here).
We believe to [make room] is not achieved by
building walls. We demand space + freedom of
movement for all.
In this episode GRMMSK
exhumes and digi-shocks a ancient mixtape back to live and transmits it, then drifts through finnish street-level and parliaMENTAL racism
to end the transmission with the problem of money and what it can do to
us.
Several tracks of unknown source from an old mixtape in a third generation copy…
Armagideon Time - The Clash (from the mixtape mentioned above)
Todesschwardron - Daily Terror (Deutschpunk-Kampflieder Compilation)
White Nightmare - Inner Teresstrials (IT!)
Buy EMI - Sigue Sigue Sputnik (21st Century Boy maxi12")
well, this is how this was supposed to look like all the time. just in case you wondered, WTF this has been before. CONFORMITY RULES! why not go ahead and KLICK…
another GRMMSK track popped up in this mix at URBANKILL. there‘s also a trackfrom the freshly released TRUE LOWS splittape by KEMIA and a KOLMIOLÄÄKE track.
here’s the mixes description:
2015 Mix #27
I enjoyed Mix #21enough
that I brought back that formula: no punk, rock, hardcore, ect. 23
tracks of experimental, electronic, techno, avant-garde, and a few other
things that are harder to classify.