Its starting to look as though its time for Revolution
"Revolution!" & "I'm OK You're OK!" by Terrorgruppe Schwarzenraben -- TS is a side project Dutch/German musician/visual artist Richard Cameron (from Arling + Cameron, whom you will remember from the late 90s as a downtempo/electronic duo, with a flair for the cinematic and weird) and his wife. [ed: My girl brought back a copy of their 7" after they performed with them in Amsterdam.] The songs are quirky electro, with a political bent. They're all about revolutionary ideas, but of a 'moderate' sort: "sharing will save human kind!" - check out their site, Mr. and Mrs. Cameron and click on the folder labelled "T.S."
Have a read through their Manifesto:
Terrorgruppe Schwarzenraben
Design for a moderate revolution
We are Terrorgruppe Schwarzenraben. We are unhappy with the state of the world and want to change it for the better. Our ideas are based on the notion that if you want change you have to act revolutionary. Being revolutionary means you have to oppose the mainstream forces in society. At the moment the mainstream force in society gravitates towards extremism in all it's forms. We therefor propagate reason and moderation. We are not afraid of compromise if it helps us to achieve our goal. Neither are we opposed to moderate aggression, where it's necessary or moderate praise where it's apropriate . We are against any form of institutional religion, including the gospel of 'free market economy' and any form of ideology that claims to speak for more then 50% of the people. We are against monopoly's in any form, including cultural monopoly's. We invite anyone who is unsatisfied with the state of the world as we know it and who feels unable to change anything about it, to start thinking differently right away. Find 3 or 4 friends who feel the same and form a Terrorgruppe. Try to find the most effective means of action depending on the situation but remember: no radicalism. We, the Terrorgruppe Schwarzenraben, try to get our message across in the most effective and most universal language known to us: music. It's our goal to reach the masses with reasonably good music in order to create a platform where we can get our message of 'moderation' across to a sizable part of the population in Germany and, who knows, the world. Hopefuly we will have a ( moderate ? ) effect on the way society develops itself in the foreseeable future. We would be happy with any measurable result.
with revolutionary greetings,
Terrorgruppe Schwarzenraben
Timely, to say the least.