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California Gurls - 5AM Ultra-Feminized Global Warming Mix

The Bike Bloc was a civil disobedience technique developed for the Copenhagen Climate Summit (COP15) by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination. To participate in the Bike Bloc I organized first Sound Swarm, a bicycle-mounted multi-channel acoustic intervention to inspire, distract or disrupt.  Anyone with a boombox and a bicycle can join the Swarm by tuning into one of the of the FM frequencies emitted by the Queen Bee.
The Queen Bee is taking a holiday this year, you can find her resting in the Disobedient Objects exhibit at the V&A Museum in London. For her stay in the museum I've composed this special soundtrack to compliment the other objects in the room. It flows like a DJ mix, blending and beat matching words, stun grenades, tin pot percussion, and street bands with my own compositions in a series of musical movements. Special thanks go out to the people featured in selected recordings, some of whom are professional musicians, others informally singing or speaking, I hope I've used your voices respectfully. Credit is given when possible. 
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/disobedient-objects/

1. Sound Swarm classic (Filastine) - Drone Harmonies
2. Sound Swarm classic (Filastine) - Glitch Cascades
3. Karnataka State Farmers Association (KRRS) chants: http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/disobedient-objects/signs-respect-karnataka-state-farmers-association
4. Helicopter at G8 Scotland beats overhead while the Infernal Noise Brigade horns blast dissonance
5. Murga procession, Buenos Aires 2001
6. Street chant battle- "Mic Check" at Occupy Wall Street 2011 alternates with “Peace Now” at Chicago 1968
7. EZLN collage- singing in Mexico City at end of Zapatista caravan & shouts from outside WTO meeting in Cancun
8. Bullhorn distortion from antiwar protest
9. Excerpt from black panther speech by Rap Brown, at a Free Huey P. Newton event
10. Stun grenades and tear gas canisters from Brazil protest 2013
11. mayor of Nashville, TN, threatens activists from the civil rights movement.
12. 2009 Climate Camp in the City, London, "this is not a riot"
13. Filastine- Sidi Bouzid refix, featuring a phrase by a poet (Mahmoud Darwish?)
14. Spray paint can in the act of graffiti & a sing-a-long against Bashar al-Assad
15. Song from Tahrir square, by Ramy Essam. See it with subtitles!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn9VKz5ZnIk
16. Foley sound of Molotov Cocktail light, throw, and explosion
18. Infernal Noise Brigade- Nanafushi
19. Selections from South Africa''s ANC pirate radio broadcast
20. Synthetic bombs and bass drops
21. Newscasters compilation from the shut down of San Francisco on first day of the US Invasion of Iraq
22. Korean farmers at WTO protest in Mexico lead charge on the barricades, 2002
23. Filastine & Nova- Gendjer2. DJ Delay’s remix of our version of this polemic leftist anthem, banned in Indonesia since 1968
24. Filastine- Swarm & Sabotage Collage
25. Filastine- Skirmish
26. Chants from Plaza Catalunya, 15M / Indignado movement, 2011
27. City Group Singers- chant from London Anti-Apartheid non-stop picket line, 1987. https://soundcloud.com/tags/city%20group%20singers
28. Kardes Turkuler- Tencere Tava Havasi. See it with subtitles- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-kbuS-anD4
29. Filastine- Marxa remixed, featuring police scanners recorded during Seattle 1999, an Iraqi crowd shouting "Americans out", a few words from Subcomandante Marcos (que fuertes nosotros, y cuantos somos =  we are so strong, and so many)
30. Cacerolazo, the tin-pot percussion as principal tool of revolt in Argentina 2001
31. Filastine- Como Fugitivos instrumental remix
32. Fragments from Mario Savio’s bellwether speech against the machine

Special thanks to Shibz, Robb Kunz, Isa, JJ, Chris, and everyone that has contributed or participated in the Sound Swarm

Sound Swarm / A Mix Soundtrack for Disobedient Objects, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Fuck off sectarianism and corruption in Lebanon. This protest song is based on the hundreds of thousands of Lebanese who have chanted "Sha3b yourid isqat al nizam" (The people want a new government).  



Sounds Like Kiss Emmon (ثورة لبنان)

I've been working on this track for a little while & thinking about ways for artists &  musicians to contribute towards promoting positive action on climate change. It features samples (used with respect) from Greta Thunberg's TED talk "The disarming case to act right now on climate change" . to listen to the full talk check out the link.......
https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_the_disarming_case_to_act_right_now_on_climate_change?language=en#t-471

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