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.
The main lyrical
themes on this album are standing up for minorities, questioning
authorities and exploring liberal Christian theology. Realised
eschatology (the theology and our song of the same name) states that all
biblical talk of end times relates to the present, not the future.
Therefore the apocalypse represents metaphorically the things that are
wrong with our world including corruptions in leadership, unfair
division of power through hierarchical systems, rights traded for the
illusion of security, the oppression of minorities etc. In general this
is the theme of the first half of the album. The next half deals with
the flip side. The Kingdom of God is a metaphor for Love in action,
making a difference and reforming this world. Most of the songs are not
religious in content, these themes are merely used to frame the
political insights explored.
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[news:]
June
2010:
First web page update in a while. Plans for a new album to be
released next year. Join the NEW MAILING LIST for access to the VIP
area and access to new songs. A new remix
is also available.
2nd March 2009:
Tonight we gave out
about 200 CDs to people leaving the Soundwave Festival in Perth. If
you received a CD please consider making a
donation. We hope that by giving them out at Soundwave that our
music is reaching the ears of more people interested in related
genres of music. This also means that there are not a lot of CDs
left, so if you want one order a CD.
8th January 2009:
Some more fan-made
videos have been added to the feedback page. That makes 6 songs so
far. Thanks to those who have contributed, you get access to the
members area as a thank you.
Example: Off To War, set to footage from the Iraqi war by George.
2nd October 2008:
The Politics
Apocalypse album is now available on CD in select stores in Western
Australia. Currently in 78 Records - 914 Hay Street Perth and Mills
Records - 22 Adelaide St Fremantle. Look out for the red box with
angels on it!
The album has been
downloaded over 10,000 - ten thousand - times (based on 3 bittorrent
sites plus here). Thanks! I hope you are enjoying the tunes. Name
your own price Politics Apocalypse CDs will be in select Western
Australian stores soon. As far as I know this is a first, and will
be an interesting social experiment. I will let you know how sales
go.
7th August 2008:
The CDs are fresh off the
press! And they look great. Next month they should be available in
selected stores in Perth, Western Australia. Till then you can
order a copy online. Everyone who has
pre-ordered should receive their copies in the mail soon.
28th June 2008:
We now have a new mailing
list you can use to be kept up to date on exciting Politics
Apocalypse news. We have some exciting plans in the works so make
sure you sign up.
We have added Google ads to the home
page. Perhaps it will make us some money. We are paid per-click.
I look forward to hearing the results. These sources are released
under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
License. This means you can use resulting remixes in commercial
projects so long as you give us credit and also release your work
under a Creative Commons licence. Contact me if you want to use the
resources in other ways.
Please email me your remixes (in mp3) and
I will put them up on the website with a link to your Internet
presence. Each remix submission will be rewarded with one month
access to the members area on our website
where you have access to new Politics Apocalypse songs as they are
completed long before they are released to the world in album form.
10th June 2008:
You can now add comments to
many of the pages on the website.
26th May 2008:
It is my pleasure to
announce the new members area of the website. The members area
contains new Politics Apocalypse songs as they are finished,
available to members long before they are released in album form to
the rest of the world. Anyone who supports us by donating, ordering
a CD (name-your-own-price) or submitting creative feedback will be
given an account. Thanks to everyone who has supported us, your
username and password have been sent to you.
Click here for more information.
18th May 2008:
Two new sections have been
added to the website, creative feedback and IMHO food for thought.
Creative feedback collects contributions
from people across the internet including videos and album reviews.
Interested in remixing Politics Apocalypse? Let me know. Soon there
will be some files to get you started.
The music is my primary voice on the
web. Now if you are interested you can read my thoughts in prose.
The food for thought section has been
dramatically expanded with my own honest and humble opinions about
religion, politics and music. Please take this for what it is, an
opinion amongst others for you to consider.
29th April 2008:
We reached over 1000
album downloads in our first month. Thanks everyone. Please spread the
word about the album.
19th April 2008:
Wow! Over 500 album
downloads in 3 weeks.
We would love to hear what more of you
think. We have a new
guestbook so please let us know what you think of the music.
You can now find Politics Apocalypse lots of places on the web (facebook, myspace, virb, mp3.com.au, Soundclick, lastfm, purevolume, JJJ unearthed, fuzz, numberonemusic, artistserver, reverbnation, musicnation, musocity,
youtube...). Some of these places are great ways of finding new music,
go the download page for links to all
of these sites.
