RR 16.10.07

1. Civil Olydnad - Politikerförakt {download}
2. Jamaica Plain - Endless War {download}
3. The Rebel Spell - They Know{download}
4. Fermin Muguruza - Milaka Bilaka {download}
5. UNO the Prophet - Hold Tight {download}
6. The (International) Noise Conspiracy + Jonas Kullhammar & Sven-Eric Dahlberg - New Empire Blues (live jazz version) {download}
7. Quese & Micco - Rebels from the Sun
8. William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer {download}
9. Ricanstruction - Bullshit {download}
10. Report Suspicious Behavior - Subtle {download}
11. Subhumans - Moving Forward {download}

RR 2.5.07

Red greetings to everyone on International Workers' Day (May Day)!, which was yesterday. I hope none of you showed up to work...! I've not yet had to time to look at much news/reports on the events yesterday, two notables is that there was some kind of police attack against protestors in LA, & that it was the 20th Revolutionary May Day in Berlin. As you may know, the day's history as proletarian struggle day stems from events in Chicago in 1886 (ironically as US is one of only countries to not officially recognise the day in some form), and stemming from those events it began to be celebrated as an annual thing in an organised way in Berlin the next year. During years of Nazi fascism & DDR revisionist 'social-fascism' the day was warped, until in 1987 some people revived it as a day for the people to rebel against the capitalist system, & ever since it's been days of spirited marches & nights of cobblestone vs tear-gas battles. Anyway when I get some time I'll probably post some blogs about how it went this year around the world.

So for the holiday we've got 3 versions of the international proletariat's anthem, "L'internationale": a folksy Italian version, a rockin Chinese version, & a throat-singin Tuvan version (Tuva is in Central Asia, within Russia borders). I put them at the end of the playlist; in retrospect I probably should've done these last month for build up to the day rather than now it's over, but anyway revolution is all year round, right?

May 5 is also the very first anniversary of Revolution Radio, so there's some music about music. And not that crap with some fool rappin about how he such a good rapper. (Which always makes me think, I'd like to see some American Idol type shit where they sing about how many octaves they can hit or whatever...) Anyway songs about "the scene", interplay of politics & music, etc. Classics like Op Ivy's "Sound System" & Dead Prez's "It's bigger than hip-hop", as well as stuff you may never have heard from Palestinian hip-hoppers DAM to Swedish punks Randy to Basque dance/dub man Fermin Muguruza, & more... Within that is a song from new & fucking excellent debut album by The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello of RATM).

Diné/Navajo rockers Blackfire also just released a fucking excellent album yesterday, stay tuned next month for a song or two from that (as well as some requests which didn't fit into themes this month, sorry).

theme: music about music
theme: "L'internationale"

1. DAM - Hibunâ Ishtrûnâ
2. The Nightwatchman - Battle Hymns
3. Fermin Muguruza - FM 99.00 Dub Manifest
4. Operation Ivy - Sound System
5. Randy - Red banner rockers
6. Ozomatli - Cuando Canto
7. Down By Law - Nothing Good On The Radio
8. Steve Earle - F the CC
9. Asian Dub Foundation - Dub Mentality
10. Bad Religion - A World Without Melody
11. Public Enemy - How To Kill A Radio Consultant
12. Refused - New noise
13. Schleprock - We need an anthem
14. Les Partisans - Radio Rebelle
15. dead prez - it's bigger than hip-hop
16. Against All Authority - Silence Is Golden But Duct Tape Is Silver
17. Intro5pect - RKN.RLL
18. Rage Against The Machine - Bombtrack
19. L'internazionale {download}
20. Táng Cháo - Yïngtènàxióngnài'êr {download}
21. Xün Xürtu - Internationale (Tuvan version) {download}

RR 1.4.07

Some variety this time (no, I'm not gonna do a theme about a different particular oppressed group every month...). Tracks from new albums by Antibalas, DAM, Flattbush, & Subhumans. That's Subhumans from Canada not UK -- these guys were some of earliest punks in Vancouver, out of commission for long time since bassist been in jail due to caught for bombing of Boeing cruise missile guidance system factory. Speaking of Canadian punk also got a track from The Brat Attack's upcoming album, one of best song titles of all time: "Hey Harper you anti-choice homophobe fuck, die die die". And how about that opening track? That is some awesome shit, if anybody knows about this band (The Red Guard), website, album, etc -- please let me know.

1. The Red Guard - United We Stand (Not Your Flag)
2. Bad Religion - The Defense
3. Antibalas - Filibuster X
4. DAM - Inqilâb
5. Subhumans - World at War {download}
6. Rapaces - Un système d'esclaves et de boss {download}
7. Blind Pigs - Conformismo e Resistência
8. The Brat Attack - Hey Harper you anti-choice homophobe fuck, die die die
9. Desechos - Que se vayan todos
10. Free*land - We Want Your Soul
11. Mzekezeke, ft. Brown - Guqangama Dolo
12. Tinariwen - Qualahila ar Tesninam
13. Sepultura - Who Must Die?
14. Flattbush - Multiple Deportation

RR 2.3.07

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8 March is International Women's Day, so naturally we got some songs on that theme here. From Turkish pop to South African hip-hop to US metal, everyone is fed up with patriarchy! There are 3 categories of songs up this month:

1) Of course, women singing about women's oppression/liberation. Classics like "Dead Men Don't Rape" by 7 Year Bitch & "U.N.I.T.Y." by Queen Latifah (pre-Cover-Girl-bullshit era), new stuff from Swedish punks Knugen Faller, folk songs from RAWA in Afghanistan, & more.

2) Men (or a song with both men & women) singing about the same subject -- not only it will take everybody to fully achieve elimination of women's oppression, it is certainly responsibility of men to help also! Including a track from AWESOME new album "Ihdâ'" by DAM, "Alhuriyeh Unthî (Freedom for My Sisters)".

3) Rebellious women singing about other topics -- if you really think women are equal, you must realise they have right to fight for more than just themself narrowly! Highlights include a pro-Palestine song in Hebrew by Israeli woman Chava Alberstein, Nina Simone, Naked Agression, etc.

BREAK THE CHAINS - UNLEASH THE FURY OF WOMEN AS A MIGHTY FORCE FOR REVOLUTION!

theme: women singing about women's oppression/liberation
theme: men (or men & women) singing about women's oppression/liberation
theme: women singing about other stuff

1. Knugen Faller - Lägg Ner {download}
2. Cristien Storm - I'm Sorry
3. Otep - Menocide
4. Ska-P - Violencia machista
5. DAM - Alhuriyeh Unthî
6. Chava Alberstein - Chad Gadya
7. Nil - Erkekler yüzünden
8. Boysetsfire - Unspoken Request
9. Sinéad O'Connor & Asian Dub Foundation - 1000 Mirrors {download}
10. Godessa - Social Ills {download}
11. Naked Agression - Problem's in Your Head (B.S.F.U.)
12. The Gadjits - Beautiful Girl
13. Ojos De Brujo - No somos máquinas
14. The Body Has A Head - A Little Restraint
15. 7 Year Bitch - Dead men don't rape
16. Jendog Lonewolf - Growin' Up Ghetto
17. RAWA - Zanân Barpâ {download}
18. Afrika - Revolution
19. Go Betty Go - Son Mis Locuras
20. Nina Simone - Mississippi Goddamn
21. Excentral Tempest & The New Philharmonic Orchestra - Peace is more than the absence of war
22. Snap-Her - USA PD
23. No Use For A Name - Justified Black Eye
24. Epoxies - Radiation {download}
25. Queen Latifah - U.N.I.T.Y.

RR 2.2.07

This month is Black History Month, where school kids learn about how wonderful it is that Eli Whitney made slave cotton production more efficient, how great it is that MLK turned his cheek to the man whilst appealing to the same man's imaginary god for help, how cool it would be to assimilate like Booker T or Colin Powell, and "Malcolm who?"

But let's take this opportunity of the subject being brought up to learn from the real history, celebrate the real struggles, & who knows maybe even start some new struggles here & now.

This month's Revolution Radio is all hip-hop. This musical genre is a thing which was developed by Afro-Americans but has since inspired oppressed people all over the world, & the songs on this playlist reflect that.

Recommended reading: Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson. Story based on, what if before the Civil War there was a Black Revolution led by the likes of Nat Turner, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, & co -- how would the world be different? Awesome shit. Go track it down at a used bookstore or library somewhere, it is a quick, fun, enlightening read!

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

theme: hip-hop

1. Public Enemy - PESA 2
2. P.O.W.E.R. - Class War
3. Negu Gorriak - Radio Rahim
4. Flipsyde - No More
5. DAM - Mîm Mîm
6. The Extremists - Power
7. Homicide - Belati Kalam Profan
8. Clarity - Mind Body Soul
9. Pirat..s Sound Sistema - Mon Boig
10. Immortal Technique & Dead Prez - Impeach The President {download}
11. Sen Kumpe - Lou Deux Bi Lath
12. Public Enemy - Hannibal Lecture
13. Rotes Haus - Nutten der Nation {download}
14. Warsawpack - Pig Dog
15. Control Machete - Unisono
16. Rage Against The Machine - Mic Check
17. Keny Arkana - La main sur le coeur {download}
18. Rev1 - Mic Tap

RR 30.6.06

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FUCK THE MOTHERFUCKING UNITED FUCKING STATES AND THE FUCKING FOURTH OF JULY. "LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT"? FUCK THAT, IF YOU DON'T LOVE THE EARTH MAYBE YOU SHOULD FUCKING LEAVE IT THEN, EH?

Frederick Douglass said it straight up:

'What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy - a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour.

'Go where you may, search where you will, roam through all the monarchies and despotisms of the old world, travel through South America, search out every abuse, and when you have found the last, lay your facts by the side of the everyday practices of this nation, and you will say with me, that, for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival.'

True today as it was then. The specific mechanisms of the slave system have changed, the essence is the same.

This month's music is from 'American slaves' as meant by Douglass, that is, slaves of the American ruling class. Some of them live inside US borders, some outside. Some are black, some not. Some are even from the middle strata, but choose to use their minds & hearts, siding with the slaves against the slavemasters.

There are some people under the impression that even though this country was founded on genocide & slavery, it's somehow mellowed out since then. Wrong. On the flip side of the same stupid-coin, there are some people under the impression that this country started out as some kind of democratic utopia, but has gone wrong after a certain point. Wrong. This country is fucked to the core. The people here, for their own sakes as well as for all the subjects & victims of this bloody empire, need an entirely new start, a new 'country' run with a new system, out of the ashes of the old.

And no, it's (probably, mostly) not your fault if you don't recognise these basic facts of life. But if you're reading this, then you are at least somewhat open-minded, so get a grip on the reality & act accordingly. Oh & listen to this music while you're at it...

BURN THE FLAG, & THE EMPIRE WITH IT!


[Line break is where part 1 ends, part 2 begins in mp3 files.]

theme: USA patriotism is poisonous bullshit that needs to be eradicated at all costs

1. P.O.W.E.R. - United Snakes
2. Anti-Flag - Red White And Brainwashed
3. Flipsyde - US History
4. Choking Victim - Fuck America
5. Aztlán Underground - Decolonize
6. Bad Religion - American Jesus
7. Ministry - The Great Satan
8. The Clash - I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
9. U.S. Bombs - The World
10. Public Enemy - Hitler Day
11. Blackfire - Exile
12. 7 Seconds - Fuck Your Amerika
13. Seize The Day - United States
14. Banana Fish Zero - Maiden America {download}
15. Rev1 - Red, White, and Blue (Situation Critical Remix)
16. Neil Fallon (of Clutch) - American Waste [orig. by Black Flag]

17. Ricanstruction - Breakfast in Amerika
18. Descendents - 'Merican
19. Slime - Yankees raus {download}
20. Ska-P - Tío Sam
21. Flying Folk Army - Uncle Sam {download}
22. Broadcast - America's boy
23. Silencer 7 - When America falls
24. Sputnik Weazel - New American Century
25. KMFDM - New American Century
26. Disenfranchised Music - United States of Deception {download}
27. The S.T.O.P. Movement - Down With U.S.
28. Lucid Nation - Welcome To America
29. River City Rebels - U.S. Crush
30. Zion I - Amerika
31. Outernational - From the Future {download}

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PS. After listening again, I'm not too keen on Anti-Flag's wishy-washyness in this song (track 2). In general they tend to disappoint, despite the radical-sounding band name. It gets worse with time, see e.g. the recent song "Turncoat" on the CD "The Terror State" where they claim the problem with Bush is that he is betraying the US. First, he's not; the US has been oppressive & genocidal since its founding; second, even if you slime around & redefine 'US' as 'population of the US', saying he betrays it implies that he used to be for it, which isn't the case at all. And then these supposedly 'Anti-Flag' cowards go & put a 'Fuck the Flag' song on the album too, but only as a bonus unlisted track on a tiny percentage of the records sold. We don't need this kind of meek, compromising, crap -- especially from a punk band for cryin' out loud! These fools should follow the example of other so-called rebel musicians like Bob Dylan, give up pretenses, find religion, do some underwear adverts, etc... Anyway, apologies to listeners for including this song in an otherwise great playlist.

RR 23.6.06

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1. Intro5pect - Questions
2. Warsawpack - Wolfblitzer
3. The Rub - Alqaeda Do It
4. Karma Sutra - A la source
5. Asian Dub Foundation - Naxalite
6. Bad Religion - Hear It
7. Public Enemy - Make It Hardcore
8. DMZ//38 - Reunify (Korean version)
9. Flying Folk Army - Hands Off {download}
10. Los De Abajo - Joder
11. Michael Franti & Spearhead - We Don't Stop
12. Negu Gorriak - Oliver Iparra
13. Bandiera Rossa [trad.] {download}
14. Mos Def - Katrina Klap {download}
15. Yéli Fuzzo - Ladji Kabako
16. Opció K-95 - BCN 12-O
17. Warumpi Band - Nyuntu nyaaltirriku?