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Politics Apocalypse
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[Politics
Apocalypse:] Politics Apocalypse is a concept album available for free to download, and even at cost price in professionally pressed CD format. Many people already consider music to be a free commodity. Rather than fight against the reality of our situation by adopting the broken model that most of the music industry is holding on to (charging a fixed amount for access to music), Politics Apocalypse gives you the opportunity to directly support the artists by donating whatever you think the music is worth to you. Released under Creative Commons licences you can copy, share and use this music freely with few limitations.
[concept:] Welcome to the apocalypse. Fallen angels inhabit the dominant power systems. Political parties are driven by self interest, capitalism disregards the needy, corporate greed fuels the economy. The year is 2008. Look around at this apocalypse now. Not all is lost. The apocalypse represents an aspect of reality which can be transcended: Stand up for what is right, stand up for your rights and the rights of minorities. [news:] Feburary 2008: Politics Apocalypse site online. Album available free soon. [get it free:] The traditional record-company business model is broken. In an attempt to find an alternative model ala radiohead (with their name-a-price MP3 or normal price CD) or Saul Williams/Trent Reznor (with their our price or no price MP3 only), this album is completely free in digital form and even at CD production cost price in physical form (when ordered online). If you feel this music is worth paying for please make a donation. Feel free to re-encode, store and share the music however you please. Links back to this web-site are appreciated. A limited run of 500 professionally pressed CDs will be produced at a CD production cost price of around AU$3 per CD. While stock is available you can order a copy at cost price here online (remember: a donation to help cover the recording costs would be greatly appreciated). Registered postage to Australia: AU$7 (incl handling). Postage worldwide AU$15 (incl handling). Click this donate link to receive a copy of the CD (you must donate at least $3 plus postage as described above to receive a CD - smaller donations will be considered a non-refundable gift). Please supply a postage address when prompted. If you like this music please burn/make copies for friends. The music is available online from a number of sources in a number of formats below. This music is free as in freedom: re-encode, store and share the music however you please. If you want to support the artists directly please make a donation: album download
individual track download / stream
social sites: comment, listen to the
whole album, view art ...
Know somewhere else the songs should be posted? Please let us know (or do it :) [video-] Future release: YouTube [Art-] Want some cool desktop images, or want to print your own CD cover for your downloaded->burnt CDs? See credits for details of CC images used.
deviantart [donate:] Your donation will help to cover recording costs and helps to support the artists.
In the interest of other artists the anonymous statistics of donations should be made available in the future. [guestbook:] Leave a message. Tell us what you think. Be heard. Use your voice (figuratively). [using and sharing this music:] You are free to use this music for videogame or movie projects etc. Please inform me of uses of this music. You are free to re-encode, store and share the music however you please. Links back to this web-site are appreciated. The music is licensed under the following terms (you are free to choose any of these licences):
[credits:] Cliffe Schreuders: music, lyrics, vocals, concept, art design Chani Hood: vocals, lyrics [Creative commons images used in artwork:] Seagulls: Perth city: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kryten/12652361/ Fire: http://www.flickr.com/photos/miro-foto/1753489547/ People: web-graphics assistance: Adric Schreuders [contact:]
[links:] [Music-] Saul Williams Radiohead [Computers-] Linux (a free alternative to windows) [Religion-] Why Christianity Must Change or Die: Spong The Heart of Christianity: Borg Progressive [food for thought:] Freedom is the
freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is (from Chapter 7 of 1984 by George Orwell) [I]n our daily life, in dealing with society and state, we have to face social tribunals that accuse us and may condemn us, because we are not conformed to their way of life. The picture of extreme non-conformity that Jesus paints includes all the small acts of non-conformity that we must perform in our daily life. Do not be conformed to the society group to which you belong. Do not be conformed to those who have political power over you, even if you obey them. But work for their transformation. (from Chapter 12: "Do Not Be Conformed" of The Eternal Now by Paul Tillich) "To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that is there."
- Einstein God grant me the
serenity to accept the things I cannot change; -Reinhold Niebuhr The
truth which makes us free is neither the teaching of Jesus nor the
teaching about Jesus. Those who have called the teaching of Jesus "the
truth" have subjected the people to a servitude under the law. And most
people like to live under a law. They want to be told what to think and
what not to think. And they accept Jesus as the infallible teacher and
giver of a new law. But even the words of Jesus, if taken as a law, are
not the truth which makes us free. And they should not be used as such
by our scholars and preachers and religious teachers. They should not be
used as a collection of infallible prescriptions for life and thought.
They point to the truth, but they are not a law of truth. Nor are the
doctrines about Him the truth that liberates. [...] (from Chapter 8: "What Is Truth?" of The New Being by Paul Tillich)"
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