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Our Way of Life
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Reality check: Our Way of Life is being hailed as something under threat - in reality, it IS the threat!
political gaia tribe activist political hiphop independent media music journalism london bombings g8 summit
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Politically pissed-off, positive vibe, pro-active, rootsy hip-hop fusion!
Gaiatribe is an independent media/ music-journalism collective. We believe music is an extremely powerful tool for articulating positive and pro-active ideas for a world where uniformity/conformity and commodification are fast becoming the rule. So, before we get to '1984', we write tunes to address issues that, ‘damn right!’ need addressing!!! Political, poetic, passionate, Gaiatribe is off da rails with a combination of hip-hop, funky-roots and ambient-chilled out sound!
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Hip-Hop • Positive Vibes
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Peak #1,083
Peak in subgenre #36
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gaiatribe
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gaiatribe 2005
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July 20, 2005
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MP3 2.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
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This short track is in response to the G8 'leaders' crapping on about our way of life being under threat. No! (we argue) our way of life IS the threat! the bombings in London, as tragic as they were, are being used by those so-called leaders as an opportunity to rally everyone together and get them to think that we need to "unite" under the banner of western liberalism, "this was an attack on all nations and civilized people" etc. "We shall not change our way of life" said Bush, Blair, Howard, Downer, and all other politicians in common chorus. But hang on!!! isn't that what the G8 summit was supposed to be all about??? about CHANGING our way of life because it doesn't actually work!? Sure, we shouldn't change it BECAUSE we are getting threatened by terrorists. But we should change it because of the fact that 55,000 people die every single day of starvation!!! Looks like all that's gone out the window and, as Bush so succinctly put it, "the war on terror goes on..." the track stars the vocal talents of Blair and Bush and others! ENJOY!
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