sample from Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
acoustic drums by pt Bell
lyrics
Designs on a machine that mines. That’s all it does.
Specificly strip mines til nothing’s left undug; then, it
Spies where else to mine, expends a lil fuel it’s pried up out the
Guts of whatever celestial body it’s just touched, and it
Flies, arriving whole intact to do it one more
Time. Designs on something like that, on a machine that
mines, that’s all it does, with no motive and no mind. That’s all it
Does. Designs on a machine that mines.
The revolution will not be
Designs on a machine that cries. Allow me to ex-
plain: It repeats the same entreaty all the time, can’t
reprogram otherwise, can’t shut it up, can’t mollify it,
can’t keep it from screaming “the future’s fucking stupid” all the
Time. Trapped inside it, a perpetual motion
engine I’ve already designed, patent pending,
So you cannot apply it for some other enterprise, shit is
Mine, and it’ll drive the forthcoming machine that cries. The
Sign of a machinic rise, but all it does is rein-
force the might-or-flight, the extant levers of power. De-
centralize the bank, toward bringin it back to barter charters,
infrared fenceposts to actualize the borders,
Ads longer than content they preface, presenting passive
Smartphone games played inept grifting you into boredom, et
cetera, hence the designs on the aforementioned ma-
chine that cries, it cries so I don’t gotta, saves me time.
supported by 4 fans who also own “cancelled: an Afropessimistic luddite's lament || or, smoke signals from the Republic of the Rif”
I like this album, especially for the message that it brings that is really powerful and in line with what happened nowadays. The title and the whole album refers to the Black Lives Matter (red summer refers to the summer of 1919 where white supremacists committed a lot of homicide against black community in USA). The whole album speaks about this, with a lot of reference to historical events (e.g.: 20th August 1619 is the date when the first black slaves were deported in USA). losfastidios
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