NetilRadio Weekly
#060
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Hello and welcome back,
It seems like it only takes one rave and one, or two, right-wing populists to expose the reality of populism - incompetence, lack of empathy and inability to process the more complex reality of the 21st century. Italian populists are no exception, offering simple solutions for imaginary problems. If one of the biggest issues of modern society is fascists marching in the streets, criminalising ravers is the most logical way to deal with it. Especially if ravers are those protesting against fascists, populist needs to be elected. Welcome to the Alternative World of post-truth “conservative” politics dreaming of empires long time fallen.
The new Italian crime of "invasion for dangerous gatherings" covering groups of more than 50 people attracts up to six years in jail and opens up the possibility of ankle-monitoring rave organisers combined with draconian fines. The UK’s latest proposed Public Order Bill seems to be inspired by the same dark force. If you attend or support any protest in which “serious disruption to two or more individuals or to an organisation” occurs, you can be forced to wear an electronic tag. And while everyone is shocked, the kinky obsession of kleptocrats with ankle monitoring feels strange to me. But maybe it’s just that someone from Leaky Sue’s family got into the electronic monitoring device business recently, or abusers in the police force have a passion for monitoring innocent people.
Italy has its first woman, not a fascist prime minister, the UK has the first, not oligarch in the same position. They both represent an archaic model of power and they both are soon to find out it’s not applicable to the new age anymore. The problem is that until we get there, the damage might be apocalyptic.
To speed up the process, we should join unions and climate activists in their resistance and choose wisely in the next election. Looking at Tories in the state of transcendental seizure, that might happen sooner than later. You know where you can find the best soundtrack to survive the chaos.
Thank you for reading,
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Coming Up
✧ Stephane Cusset, the main man of Broadway Market’s La Bouche is taking over his daughter’s show The Lila Booth - Saturday 7-8pm ✧ Cocco Mio will join Dragos this Sunday 12-2pm ✧ dancefloor destroyer Marie Malarie in PLASMAtic back2back with our, not only, trance wonder TSUNIMAN closing Sunday parade 10pm til the end ✧ Zahra B will be chatting to Toro Y Moi !!! on Monday 1-3pm ✧ workers and ravers of the world will unite during Disintegration with Oren G - Monday 7-9pm ✧
Full schedule here
Listen Back
✧ new show on the block, GoodSmells with HENDERSON in charge ✧ the most beautiful and spiritual selections we experienced this year! Hems accepted invitation from Dan Nichols ✧ Danacovered a variety of traditional pre-revolution sounds from Iran, as well as some more modern discoveries✧ Sindh on guest duties for Faery ✧ Koichi’s last Ondo Onda as he travels back to Japan ✧ a taste of Christina D’s energy for House heads ✧ amazing mixture of ingredients from Inès di Folco for christeeeene’s cherry custard ✧ Supid Potter & Zee Hammer in Sucking Diesel ✧ A Real SisterHood community effort with Wendy Thomas and Ibrahim Ogunleye as guests ✧ soul searching with Joe Pipal ✧ Makeda in conversation with Abena Essah aka Kobi ✧ Pierre-A D riding the Blue M****y waves of psychedelic disko ✧ Tadan covering Feed The Void ✧ Berlin based Mu dB took over of Millie’s show ✧ Emmy Bacharach b2b D-Joyce for Co-Select ✧ Dancing Family in charge of Domingo ✧ Blană on guest duties for Dancing Life ✧ SAIGG & DKLN joined EKATA ✧ eddyB in conversation with Avalon Cafe’s main man Paul Mgann ✧ Precious chatting with fabulous musician and dj Yvonne Shelling ✧ another new show on the block Fresh Produce ✧ Valentine Comar invited Common Sounds for her new show in old time - Low Key & Local ✧ Lu.Re stormed the studio with bass and dubby 2 step and breaks ✧ Amrisha in conversation with Anushka’s Max Wheeler in latest A Worldwide thing ✧ and Shimmy had full house in the studio - Hot Ears live sesh and Danny F**king Price in poilitical corner of The Breakfast Brapp! ✧
New Music
New music tips from our residents
TSUNIMAN / PLASMA - 1st Sunday of the month 10pm til the end
✧ Tangerine - First Breath ✧ Reflex Blue - FREE002 ✧ Blue Hour - Origins ✧
Imani / Saige Sounds - 1st Sunday of the month 4-6pm
✧ Footshooter - Afterglow EP ✧ cktrl - zero ✧ Dego - Love Was Never Your Goal ✧
Batov Records latest releases / 2nd Wednesday 3-5pm
✧ Sababa 5 - Sababa 5 ✧ Shotnez - Dose A Nova ✧ Şatellites - Şatellites - repress ✧
That’s all for this week, stay tuned
NR team
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