The sounds of Anti-Iraq War protestors outside the gates of Number Ten, overlaid with Japanese takes on extracts from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Japanese Constitution

Frontline Dub (9 Love Mix)

Darkness

For when you're feeling down, a track to keep you there

Bombs Care

Pull up a chair, sit back and let yourself drift

Holidays In The Axis Of Evil

The sounds of the march, culminating in the Reverend Jackson's address...and a final warning

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Created for the Free Music Archive's 'Masters Remastered' contest, the first new Control K track to be published in seven years is a mashed-up bringing together of some public domain wonders - a recording of Mozart's 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' with cabin audio from the first trip to the moon, thoroughly seasoned with hints of The Orb.

Eine Kleine Nasamusik

This track was inspired by the discovery of the remarkable http://listen.hatnote.com/, which turns a Wikipedia edit feed into music. 

'Listen to the sound of Wikipedia's recent changes feed. Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions. Pitch changes according to the size of the edit; the larger the edit, the deeper the note. Green circles show edits from unregistered contributors, and purple circles mark edits performed by automated bots.'

The track is based around five minutes from the recent changes feed, with snatches of readings from some of the pages that were edited during those five minutes (read by the 'SpeakIt!' Chrome text-to-speech browser plugin). Those pages are listed below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866737&oldid=744274927
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866754&oldid=744866696
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866755&oldid=744866488
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866756&oldid=742779789
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866759&oldid=744866440
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866781&oldid=744855937
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866786&oldid=744863165
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866816&oldid=744856802
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866828&oldid=744866099
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=744866832&oldid=713812161

Data auralisation?

Wikibeats Per Minute

As I mourn the narrowing of the national mind, I present this mashup to mark the moment.

Comprises of the following:

- Etherwood - Away From It All
- The Sinfonietta Orchestra in Brazilia - Symphony No. 9, Finale "Ode to Joy"
- An extract from Winston Churchill's speech at the University of Zürich, September 1946

Let Europe Arise

Yes, so infuriated was I with a looming 'No Deal' situation that I decided to mash up The Pistols with Vera Lynne and make 'Meet My Way Again'! The audio's about the expected standard for a mashup and this'll probably grate on the ears somehow, but there you go :)

Includes extracts from The Sex Pistols' 'My Way', Vera Lynne's 'We'll Meet Again', speeches by David Dimbleby, David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and Alistair Campbell, Theresa May and Ursula Von Der Leyen, and The Young Ones.

Note: any copyrighted works have been used here in the spirit of satire, and it is hoped that this will therefore be considered fair dealing.

Meet My Way Again

Control K vs BDA

This track is a collaboration with Baptiste Digital Arts (BDA), who provided the base track. It was inspired by the desire to create the first new Control K track of the decade, for a D1 Radio set on The Thursday Night Show called 'New Decades' (radio set recording below):

https://www.mixcloud.com/D1Radio/the-d1-radio-hour-live-on-the-thursday-night-show-20-01-30/

BDA: https://soundcloud.com/baptistedigitalarts

The track uses extracts from two podcasts - a Mozilla one called IRL (CC-BY-SA) and an interview by Terrence McNally with Jeremy Rifkin (sourced via a search for Creative-Commons issued podcasts on Player.fm). Both original URLs are below:

https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode6/

https://player.fm/series/free-forum-with-terrence-mcnally/new-jeremy-rifkin-the-green-new-deal

(Note: although the Rifkin interview came via a CC search, I wasn't able to find a Creative Commons indicator on the source page at McNally's site. If you are the owner/creator of the original podcast and have an objection to the inclusion of this extract, please contact me via mail [a] controlk.co.uk)

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