I've a nice little Scottish hip-hop track for you tonight that combines fine beats with social commentary - and it's not from Stanley Odd! The track in question is Madness("Escape The Network") by the Edinburgh-based duo of Vizual Pupil, of whom I know almost nothing, and Th!nk - who is a producer/MC also from Auld Reekie. The track is available now as a free download on bandcamp and serves as a preview of what's to be expected from their debut EP 'Escape The Network', which comes out on the 11th of November. The EP will also be the first release on the Unconscious Collective imprint, and is available 'here' from 11/11/11.
I hope you enjoyed that. Stay tuned to the Streetlamp for more information on the duo as it becomes available to us. I must admit, one of the reasons the song appeals to me is the sample of Peter Finch as newscaster 'Howard Beale' from the 1976 film Network; a darkly comic satire of dumb infotainment TV, which has become more and more relevant with each passing year. If you've never seen the film, and the youngsters among you probably haven't, you can find the most famous scene embedded below. In a 5 minute frenzy of scenery-chewing madness, the Howard Beale character starts a rant on the general awfulness of modern life before finally concluding his tirade by admonishing his viewers to;
"Stand up wherever you are, go to the nearest window and yell as loud as you can, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore".
As the discredited neoliberal project collapses in ruins around our ears and the intellectual midgets who form our government solemnly prescribe 'more austerity', we have one essential piece of advice for our readers who are sick of being taken for fools by a lying, self-serving, hypocritical, millionaire elite:
"Stand up wherever you are, go to the nearest window and yell as loud as you can, 'I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore".
Griff
xx
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