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produced by Wet, Chris Smith, and Noah Beresin 
engineered by Billy Pavone / additional engineering by Shane O'Connell
mixed by Billy Pavone & Ryan Schwabe/Noah Beresin
mastered by Joe Lambert

digital: allwet.bandcamp.com/album/wet-ep
vinyl: neon-gold-shop.myshopify.com/products/wet-ep

Oct 15 2013

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Dreams

This land is your land, This land is my land

Though it has often been co-opted as a benignly patriotic campfire sing-a-long, "This Land Is Your Land" was actually written by Woody Guthrie in 1944 as a subversive protest song in biting response to Irving Berlin's "God Bless America." At my sister Samra's urging, we recorded our version in 2004, during the George W. Bush presidency, in an effort to re-establish it as a song about social justice.

Ironically, when Woodie Guthrie resided in Coney Island in 1950, his landlord was none other than Donald Trump's father, the infamously racist real estate mogul Fred Trump, about whom Guthrie composed his poem "Old Man Trump," including the lines:

     I suppose that Old Man Trump knows just how much racial hate
     He stirred up in that bloodpot of human hearts
     When he drawed that color line
     Here at his Beach Haven family project 

Using a dark re-harmonization of "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as an intro, the Dap-Kings re-arranged "This Land" as a rough blues-y march, setting the tone for Sharon to tear into the lyrics of the song with the fiery gusto of a revolutionary. However, it was the inclusion of Guthrie's rarely-heard original verses that really enabled Sharon to reclaim the song as an urgent and unambiguous demand for equality and human dignity in a nation rife with social injustice and patriotic hypocrisy.

Today, as we inaugurate a rapacious billionaire to the highest office in the land, those original verses resonate with us as loudly as the day they were written:

     There was a big high wall there
     That tried to stop me
     The sign was painted
     Said 'Private Property'
     But on the backside
     It didn't say nothing
     This land was made for you and me

     One bright sunny morning
     In the shadow of the steeple 
     By the relief office 
     I saw my people 
     As they stood hungry
     I stood there wondering 
     If God Blessed America for me

We are grateful to Woodie Guthrie and to Sharon Jones, two friends of the people and bitter foes of the Trumps, who have given us an essential soundtrack to our struggle. When times get dark, let us not crumble in fear and bigotry. Let us honor the unbreakable spirit of those tireless fighters who have fallen before us. Let us rise to the fight, and let us help each other never to forget this noble truth:

    This land was made for you and me.

-Gabe Roth

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings "This Land Is Your Land"

Seems like such a paradox to be asked to make a mix for a show called 'Midnight in a Perfect World' (named after a DJ Shadow track) exactly at a time where the world is flaunting all its imperfections. My mix aired at midnight on 20.01.2017 on KEXP 90.3 FM in Seattle, just hours after Mr Trump entered office with his right hand in the air.    
So there aren't any dance tunes on this, coz I just didn't feel like dancing, instead I put together tunes from artists I love and who help me live in another world for just a sec and inspire me to deal with this one. 
there are some unreleased tunes of mine on there too.  
together we are strong , community is everything :
now get in the zone ---->
   

Tracklist
Elysia Crampton – _ Lake
Forest Swords _ Rattling Cage
Inkke – Got My Click
WSR _ All Your Lies
Perera Elsewhere _ Karam
Commodo & Gantz & Kahn _ AMK
The Green Door Allstars _ Lagueda
Klein _ Right Now
Slime_My Company
Romare_Don't Stop
Klein_Arrange
Portishead _ SOS (Abba cover _ from the movie Highrise)
Nosaj Thing feat. Chance the Rapper & Maceo Haymes _ Cold Stares
Perera Elsewhere _ All of This
Micachu & the Shapes _ Oh Baby
Perera Elsewhere _ Runaway
Prince Far I _ Nuclear Weapon
BadBadNotGood feat. Sam Herring _ Time Moves Slow
Mo Kolours _ Foundation
Jahcoozi _ Read The Books
Perera Elsewhere _ DaDaDa

Midnight in a Perfect World _ KEXP FM mix

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