We sat down with the king in the found sound crown, Mark Hosler, to talk about the art collective known as Negativland. Negativland has been relentlessly active since the mid-70s to today, jamming the culture, fighting copyright law, and bugging Bono all along the way. We discuss the undeserved distaste for the suburbs, the changes the collective has undergone since their founding, and collaborating with various video/visual artists over the years. We bring along Nolan of One Star Podcast, a man very much influenced by Negativland’s goofs and gaffs, to discern true from false on our journey

Negativland and Mark Hosler’s work can be found on negativland.com

One Star Podcast can be found at @onestarcast and their email is [email protected]

Topics: protest, intellectual property, collage, Pepsi, noise, Over The Edge, Don Joyce, The Weatherman, Jon Leidecker, Wobbly, The World Will Decide, abstract, crossing the rubicon, marketing, advertising, Reagan, capitalism, U2, lawyers, strife, Coca-Cola, music videos, mass media, Sue-C, It’s Normal For Things To Come To Your Attention, stupid, dumb, A Bag Is Coming

What is? The question at the heart of one man’s work. RXK Nephew is an up and coming rapper with an energy unseen since Marcus Aurelius, a man with ambition and a discerning eye. A man gliding past the deceptions of the forbidden fruit, cutting down the lies meant to keep you docile, domesticated. To help get to the RXKore of this enigma, we bring Noah, from Fluid Show, to tell us where we can get some Straight Drop. The rigor of the discourse is rigid. You won’t want to miss it.

Noah’s podcast/twitter is @fluidshowpod, you can buy grain-fed, locally sourced Newports at http://fluid.show/

Releasing this early to capitalize on all that Good Discourse. A lot was said on this episode regarding Ukraine and Russia, particularly a birthing Russian identity and nationalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Yegor Letov was an experimental punk/psych/noise musician and poet in the Siberian USSR, who eventually co-founded the National Bolshevik Party (representing the communist faction). After differences became irreconcilable within the party, Yegor disengages from politics entirely in 1999 and takes a looooooot of drugs. This is the episode that will get Kevin and Kaleb cancelled, and Klaus committed and sedated in a Russian psych ward.

Topics: Siberian punk rock, psychedelic rock, noise rock, experimental rock, hallucinogens, Aleksandr Dugin, Eduard Limonov, Instructions for Survival, Russian Field of Experiments, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Solstice, Soviet identity, Vladimir Putin, GrOb, Igor Letov, Konstantin Rubinov, Boris Yeltsin, Victor Tsoi, god, Orthodox Christianity, something about atheists and foxholes, cats, mice, Come and See, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Yanka Dyagileva, Alexander Vvedensky, Russian futurist poetry, Sergey Letov, monarchism, cancellable offense, cancel culture

We continue our dive into Russian post-punk with Russian Pete. Lots of stuff about how they even made records outside of the sanctioned music industry and the CIA asset codenamed Joanna Stingray. Peter also sings This Charming Man for like 4 seconds. We snuck out a KGB interview on a bone record for this episode, don’t expect it to stay uploaded for long.

Topics: KGB, Assa, Igla, Viktor Tsoi, soyboys, Tsoi-boys, Keith Haring, The Queen Is Dead, Winds of Change, SIG-INT, The Iron Curtain, The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Vladimir Putin, Lukashenko, Kiev, Ukraine

Cyka blyat. In honor of whatever the fuck is happening in Russia right now, we’re doing a deep dive into Russian culture before WWIII. The topic this month is Viktor Tsoi, the Soviet-Korean-Kazakh, folk-punk, post-punk, slam dunk slam piece head of the outfit Kino. We bring along an old friend of the pod, Russian Pete, a certified operative behind enemy lines.

Topics: Russia, Ukraine, geopolitics, Red Wave, post-Soviet punk, USSR Rock, Kamchatka, Russia invades Ukraine 2022, Moscow, new wave, goth, communsim, socialism, Chernobyl, post-modernism, modernism, politics, the Sino-Soviet Split, Afghanistan, The Smiths, Morrissey, The Cure, Duran Duran, durian

Done. Now I can move on to other things. We finish off Nerdcore with a look at atheistic battle rap, a trip through a hypernormal nerd world, and some nice words to finish off the topic. This was painful, but more so a learning experience. Kevin and Kaleb eventually come to an understanding about the meaning of nerd-dom.

Topics: MC Lars, Greydon Square, Adam Curtis, hypernormalisation, Nine Inch Nails, Egoraptor, MC Chris, Beefy, MC Router, MC Hawking, Childish Gambino, SEO, nerds, anime, gaming

It‘s the return of the macks, Kevin and Kaleb, here with the long awaited nerdcore hip-hop episode. This episode caused Kaleb an immense amount of psychic pain, so we hope you enjoy it. The boys dig into what it means to be a nerd in the mid-2000s and really gain an appreciation of some of the craziest white boys out there.

Topics: dorks, geeks, MC Chris, MC Frontalot, ytcracker, shame, disappointment, Schaffer the Darklord, Star Trek, MF DOOM, Will Smith, hacking

Today we're fulfilling out duties as court-appointed monitors of Varg Vikernes. We're also talking about the first rock band. Look out for our next full-length which is about nerdcore soon!

Today we invited our buddy Klaus onto the pod to debut a new segment called Klaus's Korner where we allow Klaus to get angry about metal and force him to play games! I tried cutting him off but he cannot he stopped.

 

Klaus cannot be found anywhere but on this podcast.

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