From Rhythm and Xen by Sevish [2015]
https://sevish.bandcamp.com/album/rhythm-and-xen

Droplet

¿Quieres escuchar el audiolibro completo? 
- Audible: http://adbl.co/2aSTYgq
- Audioteka: http://bit.ly/2aIhdKm
- iBookstore: http://apple.co/2audHjR

En el año 1984 Londres es una ciudad lúgubre en la que la Policía del Pensamiento controla de forma asfixiante la vida de los ciudadanos. Winston Smith es un peón de este engranaje perverso y su cometido es reescribir la historia para adaptarla a lo que el Partido considera la versión oficial de los hechos. Hasta que decide replantearse la verdad del sistema que los gobierna y somete.


Comprar

1984 - George Orwell

Dans cette chronique, Marwan Muhammad présente le livre 1984, de George Orwell. Il établit un parallèle avec les enjeux contemporains, en montrant comment la novlangue et les moyens de contrôle évoqués dans 1984 se prolongent dans le réel. 

1984, Big Brother & Manuel Valls

On the novel 1984 (1949) and the essays “Politics and the English Language” (1946) and “Notes on Nationalism” (1945).

What's the relation between language and totalitarianism? In 1984, Orwell presents us with a society where the ruling powers have mastered the art of retaining power, and one element of this involves "Newspeak," where the vocabulary is purposely limited to the point where subversive sentiments can't be expressed. And if you can't say it, you can't really think it either, so the "thought crime" that begins the protagonist's journey of despair would be impossible.

We get some context from the two essays: "Politics and the English Language" tells us that when we parrot metaphors and other phrases given to us ready-made by those in power (or anyone else), we cease to authentically think. "Notes on Nationalism" describes the difference between patriotism, i.e., authentic pride in your locality, and nationalism, which should really be called factionalism, which involves putting all your efforts (à la Beauvoir's "serious man") in the service of country or party or whatever.

In 1984, citizens are expected to surrender their individuality to the party (i.e., the state), and the full foursome is here to talk about exactly how that's supposed to work in the story and who counts as a citizen ("outer party") vs. a prole (whom those in power starve of the means to revolt but don't bother to indoctrinate on an individual level). So, was this Orwell's version of Marx's theory of history, i.e., through some kind of Darwinism of ideas, factions that exhibit these kinds of defensive mechanisms will inevitably rise to the top (note that this happens to all three of the world's empires in the story, though each of them had different starting ideologies)? Or was he engaging in satire, or just warning us of where certain tendencies of his day's socialism might lead if left unchecked? (Note that he was a dedicated socialist himself.) Or is this just a thought experiment to show what kind of organization one would need to ensure continuous power?

What Orwell describes is extreme: Purposefully and constantly revised history to reflect current party priorities, constant surveillance and even entrapment to "educate" citizens to love the state (which in the case of our protagonist breaks him to the point of his being essentially useless to the state's efforts), the necessity of "double-think" that involves citizens both purposely lying to themselves and then forgetting that they have done so, and finally, the overt avowal by the rulers (the "inner party") that they pursue power purely for power's sake, not for the sake of some good apart from power. Given this extremity, could the depicted society possibly plot out a realistic trajectory from our current one, or even amount to a particularly illuminating thought experiment?

Orwell has thankfully helped inoculate against disingenuous political speech, such as calling the Republicans' current plan "The American Health Care Act" when it is in fact designed to undermine care for many (I pick this example only for its recency; there are many others available of various partisan varieties). Does lying by our government in this way, or trying to restrict speech to only "acceptable" modes, or working up fear of an external, mostly illusory threat to keep the citizens in line… Do these measures represent a slippery slope to totalitarianism, to anything like the world that Orwell describes? Or is calling such things "Orwellian" really just a cliché of exactly the sort that Orwell himself would object to?

Orwell picture by Wan F. Chang-Hamachi.

Go to blog

Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part One)

Continuing with 1984.

How does the book relate to today's politics, or to the politics of his time? Does Orwell present something that we should actually be afraid our society will turn into? Are people really motivated by power for power's sake as Orwell depicts? Was he predicting history based on current trends, or was it satire, or what?

We discuss the relationship between minds: the realms of intimacy vs. surveillance, how a state might "contain" a mind that it controls, and "doublethink," where one mind is split—much like Sartre's "Bad Faith"—to intentionally delude itself.

Listen to part 1 first, or get the ad-free Citizen Edition.

End song: "Civil Disobedience" by Camper Van Beethoven from New Roman Times (2004), written by Jonathan Segel as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music ep. 38.

The Partially Examined Life

Civil Disobedience

Orwell on Totalitarianism and Language (Part Two)

Ne-Yo - So Sick (Salsa)

Trump threatens North Korea, North Korea threatens Guam, and Ashley Judd gets angry at an airport attendant.

Date: 17-08-09

Ep. 358 - The Global Thermonuclear War Episode

♬ Click for more and download ☞ http://trndmusik.de/2018/08/duester-und-deep-nothing-changes-von-orwell-zum-free-download/

⚡ Follow us on YouTube ☞ https://www.youtube.com/c/TrndmusikDe
🌃 Follow us on Spotify ☞ https://spoti.fi/2jzGmv2

„Es ist schwer, es auf eine bestimmte Sache einzugrenzen, aber wie ich mich fühle, wenn ich einen Track mache, spielt eine große Rolle bei dem, was am Ende herauskommt“, sagt der Musikproduzent @orwellsmusic, der im nordirischen Belfast zu Hause ist. Im Moment genieße er den Prozess einfach nur, indem er ständig experimentiere und lerne. Eines seiner neuesten Stück: der Track „Nothing Changes“. „Der Großteil der Aufnahmen wurde in meinem Heimstudio mit Ableton gemacht, bevor ich die Möglichkeit hatte, verschiedene Hardware zu verwenden." (...)

🎧 More Music in our Playlists on Spotify ⤵
💃 Dance: https://spoti.fi/2FjcR9k
⚡ Deep House: https://spoti.fi/2JVCgJH
🌃 Disco: https://spoti.fi/2qMavuY
🍍 Downtempo: https://spoti.fi/2K0w7vN
 👯‍♀️ Electronica: https://spoti.fi/2qJt0A9
💥 Tech House: https://spoti.fi/2vrVN0W
🌌 Techno: https://spoti.fi/2qMRUOy 

🐧 trndmsk's weekly Spotify charts: https://spoti.fi/2sgrlms

Free Download ♬

Orwell - Nothing Changes

Acid division - Thoughtcrime

Acid-Mental-Core

Download EP

Acid division - Thoughtcrime [TK061 – 2013]

Nick Thayer 'Eye Can See You'

Tired of the lies? Tired of the spin? Are you ready to hear the hard-hitting truth in comprehensive, conservative, principled fashion? The Ben Shapiro Show brings you all the news you need to know in the most fast moving daily program in America. Ben brutally breaks down the culture and never gives an inch! Monday thru Friday.

Maths & Punchlines. Un podcast proposé par Marwan Muhammad. Avec des maths de pirates, des conseils pratiques, un featuring de Batman, quelques rimes, des pauses chocolat et à peu près tous les trucs cools que ton day job t'interdit.

Empieza a escuchar los audiolibros de Penguin Audio.
Compra nuestros audiolibros: www.penguinaudio.com

The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion.

xenharmonic bass music

Sevish (aka Sean Archibald) is an electronic musician from London, UK. His music is fast and atmospheric. The style mainly gravitates around drum & bass and other electronic dance music varieties, although even ambient and chilled works have been released under this moniker. Sevish sidesteps pop structures and familiar "EDM" tropes, instead trying to capture the essence of something flowing and meandering. It's the perfect music for blocking mind-altering radiation.

Since his album Golden Hour, Sevish's technique has included a dark art known as microtonality/xenharmonics. For short, we can call this xen. Simply put, the xen aesthetic tries to achieve new musical ideas by making things more or less in-tune than normal music. For something that is so easy to describe, you would think that every musician was doing it. Sadly, the technicalities of (ab)using musical tunings to create xen music are too much for most musicians to muster at this point in time. Perhaps 3D printing will change that in the future, allowing new instruments with crazy tunings to be developed quickly and cheaply. Until then, it's the domain of a few tinkerers and madmen scattered across the globe. One of those being Sevish, who blends xen with his own brand of experimental dance music.

The xen movement is still small but growing rapidly. It has a lively facebook group, its own wiki (deeply incomprehensible to all but the initiated), and about as many dedicated record labels as you could count on one hand.

In 2010, Sevish launched his own netlabel to get together the scattered artists composing xen music. Called split-notes, this label is known for its focus on xen-with-a-beat, and most of its releases are free to download with Creative Commons licensing. While the output of the label has slowed down due to other commitments, it's still alive with new releases showing up from time to time.

Sevish's music has been put out by the Dutch label Dubbhism Deluxe. In 2011, Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon released an album called Subversio to online music shops and popular streaming services. This project lies somewhere between being a band album and being a compilation, as each of the 3 artists provided 3 solo tracks each. So it's more of a musical triptych than either of those things. Certainly a form of collaborative album that can (and will) be explored further. Each of the musicians on Subversio combine xen with beats and bass, but their individual styles contrast and compliment. Tony Dubshot excels at trippy electro dub with lots of analog processing. Jacky Ligon's style is often described as oceanic or panoramic, with fluid and rotating beats and deeply moving atmospheres and melodies. And Sevish's style... well, you already know by now.

In 2014 Sevish, Tony Dubshot and Jacky Ligon followed with 23, something of a mini-album in the same stylistic ballpark as 2011's Subversio. Numerology, conspiracy and ancient knowledge is something that the trio is attracted to, and 23 is inspired from that.

facebook.com/nickthayermelbourne
twitter: @nickthayer
instagram: @nickthayer
Australasian bookings: alex@audiopaxx.com
North American bookings: lcorson@apa-agency.com
All other enquiries: info@nickthayer.com

┌──────────────────┘
⚡ submit your repost ☞ https://www.trndmusik.de/submit-your-repost/ ⚡ premieres ☞ benny@trndmsk.de ⚡
└───────────────┐
🌙 "efsunkâr" by @sonaz-424673774 ☞ https://bit.ly/3MRFde4 🌙
🌅 "on the deep field" by @raeubermukke & @ackssek ☞ https://bit.ly/3LD2uPJ 🌅
🦹🏾  "moropa" by @mtaxel ☞ https://bit.ly/3wrQ4Wt 🦹🏾 
💐 "no way to blink" by @roweemood & @oneofvas ☞ https://bit.ly/3w51gbo 💐
🕌 "romanian resurrection" by @konimusik ☞ https://bit.ly/3FACfIt 🕌
🥀 "amor" by @sebacampos_musica & fida ☞ https://bit.ly/3rLGQlb 🥀
🔮 "monolith" by @yloh ☞ https://bit.ly/3rLGQlb 🔮
┌───────────────┘
our imprint ☞ @trndmsk-records
our mixtapes, podcasts and live sets ☞ @trndmsk
our agency ☞ @trndmsk_artist_management
submit your repost, free download, mix ☞ benny@trndmsk.de
└───────────┐
⚡ follow us on youtube ☞ https://www.youtube.com/c/TrndmusikDe
⚡ follow us on spotify ☞ https://spoti.fi/2jzGmv2
┌───────────┘
trndmsk is a blog about electronic music, founded in December 2010.
└─────┐
www.trndmsk.de
┌─────┘

Contact and Booking:
- info@aciddivision.com (Worldwide)
- www.wearerave.fr (France)

Discography: 

1) TK061 - MELANCHOLIA  [EP, Digital - 2013]
 https://archive.org/details/AcidDivisionEptk061

2) OBS.BLK 02 LTD  [EP, 7'' Limited Edition - 2015]
https://www.discogs.com/Unknown-Artist-OBSBLK-02-LTD/release/7476134

3) ARTISTS IN ACTION VOL. 1  [EP, Digital - 2015]
https://artistsinaction.bandcamp.com

4) VIOLENT CASES 001  [Album, 12" - 2016]
http://www.discogs.com/Acid-Division-Violent-Cases-001/release/8007421

5) PUREANALOG 0.2  [EP, 12" - 2016]
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Pureanalog-02/release/8446922

6) Belgian Tekno Conspiracy 010  [EP, 12" - 2017]
https://www.discogs.com/Acid-Division-mR-5-Anti-core-Belgian-Tekno-Conspiracy-010/release/10038323

7) OBS.CUR HS10 - [EP, 12" - 2017]
https://www.discogs.com/it/Various-Obscur-HS-10/release/10812548

8) VIOLENT CASES 010 [EP, 12" - 2018] 
https://www.discogs.com/it/Acid-Division-Erlenmeyer-Wanorde-Èmèl-Violent-Cases-101-Stream-Of-Consciousness/master/1316546

9) YELLOW FEVER 03  [Album, 12" - 2018] 
https://www.discogs.com/it/Acid-Division-Yellow-Fever-03/release/11649331

10) YELLOW FEVER 04 [EP, 12" - 2018] 
https://www.discogs.com/it/Hypnoise-Theory-Yellow-Fever-04/release/12180681

11) Morphinic Memories 2008-2018 [Album, Digital - 2018]
https://aciddivision.bandcamp.com/album/morphinic-memories-2008-2018

12)HAZARD 05 [EP, 12" - 2019]
https://www.discogs.com/Niemand-Hzd-Simo-Hzd-Acid-Division-Adrian-Pricope-Hzd-Records-05/release/13482890 

13) ANOMIA [EP, Digital - 2019]
https://aciddivision.bandcamp.com/album/anomia-ep

14) TEK+KARE: Music Against Virus (Support MSF) [EP, Digital - 2020]
https://tek-kare.bandcamp.com/

15) Elements Mountain Records 2020 [EP, 12" Limited Edition - 2020]
http://tekenligne.fr/fr/acidcore/7809-elements-mountain-records-2020.html?fbclid=IwAR3nEzhHfFji0d8yYd1t5FlGUDgg882DQ4R6b1QvKYsI8Mmjuhk2swP542Y

16)Last Things [EP, Digital - 2020]
https://aciddivision.bandcamp.com/album/last-things

17) PUREANALOG 0.6 [EP, 12" – 2021]
https://www.discogs.com/it/Various-The-7th-Episode/release/17431231

18) Metamorphosis (EP, Digital - 2021)
https://aciddivision.bandcamp.com/album/metamorphosis-ep-2021
19) Mystic Pharm Records 01 (EP, 12'' - 2021)
https://www.discogs.com/it/Various-Aries/release/17749534

ENJOY the ACID SIDE!

Popular tracks tagged #orwell