MEDIA ROOTS – This set is dedicated to all the hard work bedroom musicians put into their craft. Much love to each and every one of you for your dedication and discipline in making such rhythmic and melodic sonic beauty. IDM for life!
Love,
ATOP Akkad the Orphic Priest
All the featured music
on the mix can be found
through searching discogs.com or by emailing me: [email protected].
Artist List:
Nommo Ogo – Chromomiasma Asobi Seksu – Trails (Holy Other rmx) Dr Strangeloop – World of Your Dreams Ranvir Bass – You Are My Moon and My Moonlight Too Brian English – Scatting Loons Mr76ix – 2nd Thought Kcinsu – Retraction Exillon – Percussor No UFO’s – Freeze ï Drift Identity Theft – Silent Calliope’s Curse Ryan Hemsworth – VLMNT White Ring – Feather (Story of Isaac rmx) Fluorescent Grey – Leaf-Laden Amber Hued GUI Kossak – Mrs Crabcake William Cody Watson – I Won’t Let Them Through That Door
MEDIA ROOTS — Graffiti Philosophy is a video collage illustrating sociopolitical commentary in the renegade art form of graffiti. It traverses class warfare, suffering, consumerism and mass media indoctrination, industrial civilization’s oil addiction, exploitation by Empire, environmental consequences of fossil fuels, and the fate of humanity.
“An artist’s duty is to reflect the times.” – Singer, poet and civil rights activist Nina Simone
MR
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Graffiti
Philosophy
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I love how much art can illustrate about
society and the world around us. Graffiti
art is especially interesting to me because of the
clarity it conveys in such a succinct fashion.
Also, political graffiti holds a lot of power to move
people to action. It
was reported that graffiti helped spark and encourage
the revolution in Syria, as well as Egypt and countries in South Asia.
“Graffiti Philosophy” is my attempt at
illustrating the state of the world
in which we currently live: one where an oligarchic-corporate empire has corrupted and
usurped governments, destroyed worker’s rights and wages, subverted the Fourth
Estate, indoctrinated the population into a mindless and superficial consumer
culture, built and instituted a police/surveillance state side-by-side with the
military industrial complex, and hastened the environmental destruction of the
planet.
People across the world are suffering
immensely, with their livelihoods in constant jeopardy. The well-being of communities and families is
in perpetual danger and under constant threat, and the officials we continue to elect from the same corrupt two-party system, beholden to Wall Street interests, only pay lip service to their campaign promises.
From the moment in which we wake until we fall asleep, we are
inundated with corporate media spin and propaganda. It’s near
impossible for the average citizen on the street to discern the truth without taking
a proactive approach in searching for independent, impartial news
sources.
However, the facade seems to be breaking as more people come to the realization that their so-called democracy is only an illusion, especially in North America. They
call it virtual politics in
Eastern Europe. The truth has become a fungible commodity – replaceable
and changeable for whatever purpose suits the moneyed elite.
How can civilization survive when the truth is buried and
the decisions for society are based upon the delusional, self-serving beliefs of the American ruling-class? With the continued advancement of modern technology and man’s ability to
destroy humanity multiple times over, this question becomes ever more pressing.
MEDIA ROOTS – This set is dedicated to being aware in the present moment. May right now be enough for you to be pleased with your life and grateful for what you have. Hopefully this playlist helps light up your life!
Love,
ATOP Akkad the Orphic Priest
All the featured music
on the mix can be found
through searching discogs.com or by emailing me: [email protected].
Artist List:
James Ferraro – Adventures In Green Foot Printing Silky Johnson – Foco Octo Octa – High Reflection Peaking Lights – Birds of Paradise (Xander Harris rmx) Blondes – Synthesist LAKE RADIO – Chant II GuMMyÜBeAR! – Cognitive Ascension Salem – I’m Still in the Night BEBETUNE$ – #C I T Y LIGHT$$$ The Weeknd – What You Need Ford & Lopatin – Emergency Room Clark – Rainbow Voodoo Desto & Jimi Tenor – Eightfold Path Consequence – Untitled Dream Joker – Back in the Day Instrumental MIMOSA – Night Terrors Martyn – Distortions J¸rgen M¸ller – Sea Green Lohan – Mosquito Coast Gravious – Monolith feat Charles Bukowski
MEDIA ROOTS – This day may seem like every other to you, maybe it’s more rainy than usual or perhaps it’s perfectly sunny outside. Some people do not feel a connection to the outside world and instead choose to dwell more on their own mind’s chatter. My latest DJ set for Media Roots is dedicated to the natural world surrounding us. Listen to this set while you walk around your favorite neighborhood. Getting outside to explore and re-connect with the earth helps quell the desire for mass consumption. Have fun jamming out to what I consider to be my best set yet!
“There is no difference between you, myself and a piece of shit.” – Swami Vivekananda
With Love and Honesty,
Akkad the Orphic Priest (ATOP)
All the featured music on the mix can be found through searching discogs.com or by emailing me: [email protected].
Artist List:
Clams Casino – Waterfalls Zomby – Trapdoor Kuedo – Ant City Kuhn – Island Damu – Plasm Kingdom – Let You No Untold – U-29 Ford & Lopatin – Emergency Room Dub (prod by The Bug) King Midas Sound – Earth A Kill Ya (Mala reowrk) Bullion – Ralph Tycho – Adrift Kiln – THe Colourfreak Memotone – Four Minute Hallway (feat Leafcutter John) Ital – One Hit Pink Skull – Tai Ki Keyboard Kid – Lone Warrior David Lynch – She Rise Up Washed Out – Within and Without
MEDIA ROOTS — Watch
Aphex Twin, aka Richard D. James, conduct a 48-piece orchestra and 24-piece
choir by remote-control using midi controllers, headphones, and remote visual
cues in Wroclaw, Poland. This man is a living legend dedicated to the
craft, truly one of our generation’s musical geniuses. Richard
D. James, ‘nuff said.
Messina
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Richard D. James
PITCHFORK
— As previously reported, Richard James, a.k.a. Aphex Twin,
was commissioned to compose a series of short pieces for the European Culture
Congress in Poland. His commissioned works, available here, were produced in response to the composer Krzysztof
Penderecki. But James also conceived a
“remote orchestra” piece while in Poland, wherein he used midi
controllers, headphones, and remote visual cues to conduct and control the
sound of a 48-piece orchestra and 24-piece choir. Warp (via Self-titled) now points to video footage of the eery and highly
cinematic performance, which took place on September 10 at the Centennial Hall
in Wroclaw, Poland, and included members the AUKSO chamber orchestra
and OCTAVA
ensemble+. Watch it below, and check out more footage of Aphex Twin’s
performances in Poland here.
Nommo Ogo – Chromomiasma
James Ferraro – Adventures In Green Foot Printing
Clams Casino – Waterfalls