Dissidents (1984 Remix)

from The 1984 Remix Project by NCN

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The title of this track is a play on the song title heard within, namely 'Dissidents' by Thomas Dolby. This is mixed with material from the 1984 film, '1984' with John Hurt and Richard Burton, and then a telescreen news monologue decrying an attack by the enemy. It constitutes a remix of the Thomas Dolby song.

This culminates into a 2-Minute Hate like moment, with the Hymn from the beginning of the program reprising itself.

lyrics

Dissidents by Thomas Dolby

One more young writer slid away in the night
Over the border he will drown in light

Hold it - wait a minute
I can't read my writing, my own writing!
Like tiny insects in the palm of history
A domino effect in a cloud ofmystery
My writing is an iron fist
In a glove full of vaseline

Dip the fuse in the kerosene
I too become a dissident

Courting disaster we ran in the night
Check it - verify it
Wings of an angel torn in flight

It's all here in writing, down in writing!
At the hands of the press
And in the eyes of the government
I fell from grace
I too became a dissident

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from The 1984 Remix Project, released June 22, 2013
John Hurt; Richard Burton; 1984 (1984); Thomas Dolby

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The National Cynical Network San Jose, California

The National Cynical Network (NCN) is a long-running, SF Bay Area alternate programming media remix project. It originally consisted of a trio of SF Bay-Area based radio collage artists: Phineas Narco, Ronald Redball and Alexander T. Newport. NCN seeks to play *with* music , using sound, and video media samples in the process of media collage or 'mediage'. ... more

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