Riffs, remixes, mashups and variants of Childish Gambino's immortal masterpiece, augmented by a whole bunch of other stuff presented finally here in this sprawling mix which has been worked on for almost a year's time.
This particular version has the word 'Ultimate' in the title to distinguish it from any intermediate stage versions of this piece that there may be out there.
This feels DONE now.
This is a long and detailed sonic mural which turned out to be a portrait of a post-Election nation in all of its guises of volatile internal paranoia, exuberance and conflict.
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SPECIFIC CONTENT SPOILERS and credits:
This is a longish, more or less abstract, darkly psychedelic collage piece which seeks to capture the mood of The United States in the period just after the 2020 U.S> Presidential election. It is labelled 'Redux Ultimate' because it is the final form of this piece and to distinguish it from other versions which may be 'out there'. It includes, as a leitmotif, many different versions (remixes and mashups) of the song 'This is America' by Childish Gambino and many enraged (some modified) rants by Trump fans post-2020 Election. Several of these rants include the phrase 'This is America'. Some ranting is by webcaster and Trump associate Alex Jones. The 'America First' piece with him is by Placeboing. One of the ranters is actually in the 'Four Seasons' parking lot during the Rudy Giuliani press conference there post-election.
Excerpted songs: 'Lunatic Fringe' by Red Rider, What's On Your Mind (Pure Energy) is by Information Society, 'Kirk Has Taken Too Much LSD' is by 'Fall on Your Sword', the (slightly re-mixed) piece by NCN and JC Clone called 'They're Coming' from our album, 'Paranoia'. Rage Against the Machine is also very briefly heard.
The piece 'Crazy Flag' is by Joseph Morris.
TV clips fromo the original series of 'Star Trek', 'Batman' (1966) and The Beverley Hillbillies are heard. Movies sampled are: Forrest Gump, Easy Rider, Omega Man, the documentary 'Woodstock', The Parallax View (1974), Full Metal Jacket, Aliens (1986), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Rosemary's Baby and Eric Bogosian (spoken word performance) in 'Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll'. There is also a spoken word piece ('stay in your homes') by Jello Biafra.
The remix of Aerosmith's 'Livin' on the Edge' is the 'Over the Edge' (no relation to KPFA) version, there are also samples used by The Beatles, Nine Inch Nails and Jimi Hendrix. The Trump version of the title track is by Galu. Mashups used include work by DJ Cummerbund (the Michael Jackson one), the Childish Gambino vs. Post Malone 'Congratulations' one is called the 'Carneyval Mashup', the mashup with Aerosmith and BIlly Idol is by Kill_mR_DJ mashups, the one that has Trump singing the Weeknd song, 'Blinding Lights' is by Maestro Ziikos, the one of Trump singing in the form of A-ha's 'Take on Me' is by Traincraft101. There is a clip from the LP 'Famous Monsters Speak'... the song at the end is 'Fear of a Blank Planet' by Porcupine Tree (from lossless source).
Childish Gambino; Star Trek (Original series and 'The Next Generation'); Red Rider; Aerosmith (the 'Over the Edge' version of their song, 'Livin' on the Edge'); Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda (From 'Easy Rider', 1969); Charleton Heston (from 'Omega Man', 1971); Jello Biafra; JC Clone; Donald Trump; Richard Dreyfuss in 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977); Kevin McCarthy in 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956); Eric Bogosian (NCN mod of his monologue, 'Artist' from his stage show and film, 'Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll' (1991) ; Post Malone; DJ Cummerbund; Donald Trump; Alex Jones; Michael Jackson; Kill_mR_DJ; Famous Monsters LP; Porcupine Tree (Fear of a Blank Planet)
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