WILT_2021-07

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 14 Feb 2021 to 20 Feb 2021.

1. She’s Lost Control (2019 Digital Master) – Joy Division
2. Rock-N-Roll Victim – Death
3. Where Do We Go From Bere??? – Death
4. Politicians In My Eyes – Death
5. Lost at Sea – Marcus Hamblett, Kate Stables
6. Babybaby No Yume – TANUKI
7. 5D Soundtrack – Aldrena
8. Vector Traveller – Tanukia
9. Space – Tanukia

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2021-07

Notes

This edition of WILT is quite random and I’m struggling to recognise any patterns in my listening preferences.

What I can tell you is how this playlist started, and where it sort of fell apart.

It all began from being served a YouTube video recommendation called A Band Called Death – Before There Was Punk. On the thumbnail were three men of African descent. This was a curious video suggestion that I had to click on because the punk movement is more associated with Caucasians as well as working-class struggle and ethos. I haven’t finished the documentary. but suffice to say I was curious enough to listen to the music and read up on the band’s history. It seems that they’re now classified as some form of proto-punk band (Their active years as a band was 1971–1977) with some musical roots in garage rock. With the benefit of hindsight, they truly were ahead of their time as they were developing their sound off templates that had not really been created yet.

From there I went the other end of the spectrum and re-visited the no-wave punk music of Joy Division. Also because I wanted to re-listen to She’s Lost Control which was also the label of the Fragola (Isabella) created by Ochota Barrels that I recently drank. It was here that you could observe two different perspectives. One of something that had not been created, and the other, the almost ideal entropy of something that had run its course.

After that, looking out for patterns became a bit difficult. Probably because I had already formed one in my head, and I wasn’t particularly interested to look into the rest of the details that made up the tapestry.

The playlist then continues as a further exploration into the break beat genre. Why it deviated to this I’m not quite sure. There definitely still is a lot more history to uncover in the cultural phenom of Black musicians performing the punk genre, as well as their participation in the punk movement. The movement definitely should not be a white-washed movement as how mainstream media typically depicts, as there are many other threads to pull, especially when you explore punk’s negotiations with other cultures and genres like reggae and first-wave ska. Immigration, cross-polination of cultures and ideas, socio-economic oppression that is agnostic of race, etc… Many annecdotes make up the background of a movement, not all find its way into the narrative, but let us chronicle what we can for posterity’s sake. So that someone after us might continue the story.