Let's play: Master and Servants, the salvation of the USSR in the Kyivian Божевільний замок sound

Sam R.

Wotcher,

As we all know, the 1970s and 1980s comprised a revolution in the culture of the Soviet Union. The unstoppable sound of the need for industry began in Kyiv, a home of Soviet Revolution, and was amplified by the Ramtha's School of Enlightenment's smuggling of MDMA into the Soviet Union. Nobody was prepared for the Божевільний замок (Mad Castle) sound of electro-pop communist Industrial bands like Dispatch Action (Дія відправки) or the later Ukraine Techno Sound. The combination of cut-up cuban beats destroyed all traditional conceptions of Folk Dance in the Soviet Union leading to Hard Bass and Broken Core. The current Soviet Elite tries to deny the gay basis of Techno-Detroit or Chicago-House-New York which prefigured ignorantly the correct historical-materialist basis of the Soviet Sound and Soviet "Orbital" economy on the "Girlfriend Style Tracker" instead of the bourgeois sequencer, but MDMA has transformed the Soviet Union from Alcoholism to Serotonism and 3 day hangovers.

We have become Masters and Servants. We have become Masters and Servants.

It is impossible to imagine the West having mastered bass and drum, to have mastered the music of the cuban mountains and deeply forested areas, but the Soviet Revolution needed Jungle I am afraid. Without the innovations of the Kyiv sound and the external revolutionary impulse of the objectively incorrect RSE revolutionaries, the Soviet Union might be an economy limping on dishonesty, ethanol, and bad "Swedish" style pop-disco. Instead the Soviet Union has survived and exported to Central Europe the revolution of hard bass and drum, engaged conformance economics, and broad Anti-Sluggishly-Progressive-Drum-Beat-Post-Traumatic-Stress treatment with MDMA.

In the West, even, who does not squat with the Soviet Beat Supremacy?

yours,
Sam R.
 

Burton K Wheeler

Moderator
EasternRomanEmpire said:
Why are you insulting me? I was asking a question.
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And I have answered it.

I am not insulting you, I am describing what you are doing. If you would like to discuss this thread and the purpose of the ASB forum, you are welcome to PM me or post in the Help and Rules area, but repeatedly posting in a thread that it does not meet your standards for plausibility is rude and destructive to discussion.
 

Sam R.


Detroit and Chicago were economic backwaters with internal ethno-national issues. Manchester was an economic backwater with internal ethno-cultural issues. Kyiv was an economic backwater with internal national-cultural issues. All were working class communities facing the collapse of high-fordism. The Soviet Union had access to cultural forms of rhythm and lyricalism that could have supported a new dance music in the early 1980s instead of the early 2000s.

What was missing:

MDMA? This is perhaps the easiest. A large US religious-youth-movement is committed to illegal action, international drug smuggling and dance music.
Audio and lyrical styles which present anomie? We can get away with this if we hide it underneath enough traditional folk elements and imported inspiring foreign musical elements. Jungle went mainstream so fast it is the official sound track of the PS1. Sub-cultures can survive in the Soviet Union in the 1980s if they're elusive, not defiant.
The Atari / Amiga computers? Sure, I'll give this one, but it is possible, but not optimal, to compose similar music manually with kicks, snares, tubas, accordians (especially accordians, they're portable synths). Specialist drummers bringing the Cuban revolution home, manually?

That a Kyivian sound could concentrate a cultural transformation which has economic and political effects sufficient to stop the sale of the Soviet Union to the Soviet Union's elite by the Soviet Union's elite? (effectively) Legalised MDMA and official sanction for dance culture would help. Play Station jungle was composed in the UK games studios. A chief barrier seems to be the blockage around capital cycling through cultural production in high tech micro-industries with productivity as great as the consumption market for them. We don't *need* play stations for this, we could just use theatres, dance-halls, radio and film. MDMA "Monday" would be slightly more productive than every-day-a-hangover. If we get lucky MDMA might help with direct and intergenerational trauma therapy.

I'm not saying it is nice. The Soviet Union might have a formal opinion on Washington State religious building planning codes. The Soviet Union has a different flavoured icing on the hell of working to live, possibly being transformed into the post-Fordist living to work. At least it would be less horrific than China's cultural revolution, as long as you like accordian samba.

yours,
Sam R.
 

Burton K Wheeler

Moderator
There was no Atari or Amiga, but there was the Pravetz. I don’t know if a suite of music composition hardware for it would be considered too frivolous, but they were clones of Western computers and perhaps a samizdat floppy disc containing all the necessary beats and beeps could crop up.
 
Godot

Godot

Sam R. said:

Detroit and Chicago were economic backwaters with internal ethno-national issues. Manchester was an economic backwater with internal ethno-cultural issues. Kyiv was an economic backwater with internal national-cultural issues. All were working class communities facing the collapse of high-fordism. The Soviet Union had access to cultural forms of rhythm and lyricalism that could have supported a new dance music in the early 1980s instead of the early 2000s.

What was missing:

MDMA? This is perhaps the easiest. A large US religious-youth-movement is committed to illegal action, international drug smuggling and dance music.
Audio and lyrical styles which present anomie? We can get away with this if we hide it underneath enough traditional folk elements and imported inspiring foreign musical elements. Jungle went mainstream so fast it is the official sound track of the PS1. Sub-cultures can survive in the Soviet Union in the 1980s if they're elusive, not defiant.
The Atari / Amiga computers? Sure, I'll give this one, but it is possible, but not optimal, to compose similar music manually with kicks, snares, tubas, accordians (especially accordians, they're portable synths). Specialist drummers bringing the Cuban revolution home, manually?

That a Kyivian sound could concentrate a cultural transformation which has economic and political effects sufficient to stop the sale of the Soviet Union to the Soviet Union's elite by the Soviet Union's elite? (effectively) Legalised MDMA and official sanction for dance culture would help. Play Station jungle was composed in the UK games studios. A chief barrier seems to be the blockage around capital cycling through cultural production in high tech micro-industries with productivity as great as the consumption market for them. We don't *need* play stations for this, we could just use theatres, dance-halls, radio and film. MDMA "Monday" would be slightly more productive than every-day-a-hangover. If we get lucky MDMA might help with direct and intergenerational trauma therapy.

I'm not saying it is nice. The Soviet Union might have a formal opinion on Washington State religious building planning codes. The Soviet Union has a different flavoured icing on the hell of working to live, possibly being transformed into the post-Fordist living to work. At least it would be less horrific than China's cultural revolution, as long as you like accordian samba.

yours,
Sam R.
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Your mentioning of the decline of Fordism and the effect it had on music and culture makes me want to ask if you've read Ghosts of My Life, or really any of the cultural criticism of Mark Fischer?
 
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