by djnarrative | 12 Apr, 2013 | The Reckorder Project
After a week of sorting 25, 000 records and 20, 000 samples into playlists i hopped back onto Ableton to knock together a deep dubsteppy track. It started with some Taiko drums, and ended with some samples from a documentary about how the criminal justice bill and thatcherism affected the unity of the rave scene. There's so much about on the social networks at the mo on Magaret Thatcher's recent death for obvious reason. The track started with just wanted to explore making a deep dubstep style track, but then i thought it would be interesting to juxta pose a few of the samples that id saved a while back from a documentary called the summer of love about raves in 88. The raves were a great step forward for unity in my book, and even addressed the growing violence in football so were initially welcomed by the police. After the cjb everything changed for the worse, and in an ideal world an evolved government would have in my opinion looked to enable the raves to grow into safe spaces, and build on the many positives they held before the criminals started to scavenge. When the violent gangs started taking over the festivals for their own monetary gain the whole scene changed, and the cjb shut down any attempt to revive the positive side. In my view there is a parallel between the capitalist rich conservative & the bully boy type gang, with both opting out of personal gain, with little to no awareness or thought to the whole. Ironically, one seems to be born out of the other,...
