DISKJAMMY #8: CALL FOR COLLAB

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#OCCUPYTHISMIXTAPE!!

A note from Jesse Darling:

Hi there,
I make a collaborative digital mixtape project inspired by the principles of bricolage, open-source and P2P data-sharing. It's always a jam and it's always a kind of experiment: each Diskjammy mixtape is a compilation of songs submitted by different people, from all over the world, in response to a brief. This brief takes the form of a particular theme or idea, and I try to keep these broad and universally resonant.

The theme for Diskjammy #8 had to be #occupy, or: "what are YOU fighting for?"

I'm looking for people's original music, spoken word, first-person accounts - or just favourite protest songs, good jams, music that represents this moment. I know there's been a lot of singing around Zucotti & environs - I wonder if you might post up the call for submissions, and help me make the mixtape-that-is-a-snapshot-of-a-movement. The greater the range and diversity of submissions, the better.

Let me know what you think.
Love & solidarity,
Jesse.

FROM THE PROSPECTUS:

What are YOU fighting for?


I want your songs of rage, your battle-cries, your protest songs; I want the new young soldier, the voice of a generation; I want the song that speaks of what has made you angry again, even after ten years or twenty; I want the song that wordlessly expresses all you care about. I want the song whose harmonies suggest new models for non-hierarchical self-organization. I want your tracts. I want voice recordings made in your bedroom or on your bike; I want you to identify, and express, what kind of a war we're fighting, and to speak your part in it - in your own words or someone else's, with beats or countermelodies, with silence, with breaks, with speech, with sound.

The mixtape is the quintessential token of exchange in a gift economy wherein love is the common currency (for a person, for an idea, or for the music itself). This seems appropriate enough given that the mechanisms of market capital are breaking down on all sides. "Something has been going on between the left earphone and the right earphone of this generation that represents a profound change in attitude" (Paul Mason, as before). I look forward to hearing it in mine.


[somewhat arbitrary but strictly enforced]
** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25/11/11 **