What makes a protest song? The Specials should know. First time around, back when the 70s were lurching into the 80s, they sang of racism, war, unemployment and the rough edges of urban life, and never in the same way twice. As the multiracial flagship of the 2 Tone movement, they made a political statement every time they stepped on stage. June 2021 saw the 40th anniversary of their last and greatest protest song, Ghost Town, a record that will retain its eerie power as long as there are concrete jungles, empty dancehalls and desperate spasms of violence.
 
It's fitting, then, that in 2021 the Specials are releasing Protest Songs 1924-2012, an unpredictable collection of unique takes which celebrates the long history and endless versatility of the form, from folk to post-punk, from righteous uplift to biting satire, and from Kingston to Alabama. It’s a potent reminder that there are no fixed rules to templates for a protest song. All that’s required is the combination of something that needs to be said with music that needs to be heard. “People have been using music as a vehicle for protest since time immemorial,” says bass-player Horace Panter. “Injustice is timeless.”
 
“2020 was the year of protest, wasn’t it?” says Horace. “It was in the air. The hardest part of the whole record was deciding what songs to use.” Following the musical liberation of Encore, genre was no obstacle. Each song demands a different arrangement or tone of voice. “We thought, let’s throw out the musical constraints of the Specials. There’s not a tonic suit or Fred Perry in sight. We don’t want to deny our past, because that enables us to do what we do now, but we have our own creative minds to make up.”

Terry Borderline is a performer, songwriter, producer, recording engineer, event planner, editor, and recording artist ushering knowledge into the world through music, events, services and audio/visual creative content. Founder of The Suns a hip hop rock influenced hybrid band composed of Lucas McCain (Bass), Corey Spingel (Drummer), Nick Lovn (Guitar) and Lone Sol (Saxophone), Terry has transcended the culture as a critically acclaimed live act. Borderline marries a stark interest in unknown histories and universal truths with songs such as “Breathless” and “They Liv” a new Podcast formed by him, Forte, and Sassy airing on Mass Music Radio and Anchor.fm.
 

One of many, he is the founder of the Borderline Music team: a collective of artists, talents and creatives uniting under a single vision toward progress through expressive arts that boasts dozens of members! Powerful sound and energy is created with the audible atmospheres curated under his elaborate production. Nearly a decade of professional musicianship has taught Terry the importance of supporter and artist accommodation, as a result: the top priorities of the Borderline music team are artist and supporter experience. Music is vibrations, art, soul and God and Borderline aims to manifest them all with every perfect decibel under the guidance of indigenous deities and his ancestors. Building on centuries and generations of musical achievement and progress Terry Borderline devotes his life and career towards his purpose birthing a new age of healing and sound.

Hallucinatory electronics from the Mother City. Currently based in Berlin. 
Releases on Subsist, Wolfskuil, and City Bowl Wax Network. 

US-born, Cape Town-based producer, DJ, and scientist skewing towards experimental soundscapes and focusing on the meditative and transcendental elements of techno. Resident at MASS. 

Techno is the vehicle through which I experiment. 

Other projects: Otalog, DJ Monogamy

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Artist, musician, songwriter, Rapper, singer, engineer, producer (Hybrid Archive)
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Well I am someone who has been to patient with music and I feel it's time to share some talents far as everything else music speaks for itself

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