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Dancing as an act of rebellion

by Abraxas

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"Dancing as an act of rebellion" in different languages
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LYRICS In front of you is a criminal outlawed by the State whom the public prosecutor called to be stateless. However, I would not like to be in their place, because I have a beautiful and beloved homeland as no Prussian prosecutor does. What is the homeland but the great mass of working men and women? The day is coming! In which those of us who are below will reach the top. Our day is coming! No! We will get into power to achieve a worthy social order for the human being that ignores the exploitation of man by man, that ignores genocide. A society that fulfills the highest ideals of humanity's greatest philosophers!
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LYRICS (In Spanish, English below) Yo soy una madre que me mataron a mi hija! Y si soy una madre empoderada, y feminista Y estoy que me canga la chingada Tengo todo el derecho a quemar y a romper! Dejen de estar lucrando con nuestro dolor Y si me ven de negro, y si soy muy radical Y si quemo, y rompo, y hago un pinche despadre en esta ciudad Cuál es su pinche problema? A mi me mataron a mi hija! Yo no soy una colectiva Ni necesito un tambor, ni necesito un pinche partido político que me represente MUJERES ASESINADAS MUERTAS VIOLADAS DESCUARTIZADAS MUJERES TIRADAS MUJERES DESAPARECIDAS Ya no señores! Se les acabó! Ya rompimos el silencio! Y no les vamos a permitir que hagan un maldito circo de nuestro dolor! Y si van a hablar, hablen de todas Hablen de todas las que acosan y violan los maestros y los servidores públicos A las que vierten ácido Hablen de las niñas que violan en sus cunas sus propios padres y Sus familias se quedan callados Porque la religión católica se lo permite MUERTAS VIOLADAS ABUSADAS DESCUARTIZADAS MUJERES! No le voy a pedir permiso a nadie porque yo estoy rompiendo por mi hija Y la que quiera romper, que rompa, y la que quiera quemar, que queme Y la que no, que no nos estorbe! EL DOLOR FEMENINO! EL DOLOR DE LA MADRE TIERRA! MUERTAS! Y la que no, que no nos estorbe! ASESINADAS! MUJERES! Ni una más, ni una más, ni un asesinato más! Ni una más, ni una más, ni un asesinato más! Ni una más, ni una más, ni un asesinato más! ENGLISH I am a mother whose daughter was brutally murdered! I am an empowered mother, a feminist. I am fucking angry and very upset. And I have the right to burn down and smash! Stop profiting from our pain If they see me wearing black and think I am too radical. If they see me burning down, smashing and making a father fucking mess in this city, What's your fucking problem? They murdered my daughter! I am not a collective. I don't need a drum, I don't need a fucking political party that represents me. WOMEN MURDERED DEAD RAPED DISMEMBERED WOMEN THROWN AWAY WOMEN MISSING No longer gentlemen! This must stop! We have already broken the silence! We are not going to allow them to make a damn circus of our pain! And if they are going to talk, you better talk about all of them. Talk about all those women harassed and rape by their teachers. Talk about all those public servants. Talk about all those men pouring acid on women. Talk about all the little girls raped by their own fathers meanwhile their families remain silent because their Catholic religion does not allow them to speak out! DEAD RAPED ABUSED DISMEMBERED WOMEN! I'm not going to ask anyone for permission. I am smashing everything on the name of my murdered daughter. And the woman who wants to join and smash as protest, just do it! And the ones who want to burn down, just do it! And those who don’t, at least don't get on the way! MURDERED WOMEN THE FEMALE PAIN! THE PAIN OF OUR MOTHER EARTH! DEATH! MURDERED! WOMEN! Not one [woman] less, not one less, not one more murdered! Not one less, not one less, not one more murdered! Not one less, not one less, not one more murdered! Watch the interview to both artists on WHO Electronic Radio in our YouTube channel.
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LYRICS Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Be capitalist. Believe in capitalism. Love capitalism. Be capitalist, my friend. Believe in capitalism, my sister. Love capitalism, my brother. Become capitalist, comrade! It rewards us for being brave, it awards us for being innovative and thinking out of the box. Thinking out of the fucking box. Embrace capitalism. Embrace capitalism! However Capitalism means that a few people will do very well, and the rest will serve the few. Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred. Capitalism offers freedom, but far from freedom, it enslaves us. Enslaves you, enslaves us. Enslaves you, enslaves us. Enslaves you, enslaves us. Enslaves you! Enslaves us! Enslaves you! Embrace capitalism! Embrace the one who strangles you! Love the one who kills you! Fuck the one who kills you! Hey guys, nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.
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LYRICS We're entering an era In which our enemies Can make anyone it look like is saying anything At any point in time Even if they would never say those things Even if they would never say those things Dipshit President Trump is a total and complete dipshit Dipshit Dipshit, dipshit Dipshit, dipshit, dipshit This is a dangerous time President Trump is a total and complete dipshit, dipshit, dipshit Dipshit, dipshit, dipshit Moving forward, we need to be more vigilant With what we trust from the Internet It's a time when we need to rely On trusted new sources May sound basic But how we move forward In the age of information Is gonna be the difference Between whether we survive Or whether we become some kind of fucked up dystopia Thank you And stay woke bitches
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SAVE OUR EUROPE FROM THE COLLAPSE I’M EUROPEAN, I AM DEAD YOU’RE EUROPEAN, YOU ARE DEAD WE’RE EUROPEAN, WE ARE DEAD DEAD! EUROPE DESINTEGRATES ITSELF AND THIS IS NOT AN ACCIDENT THIS UNION IS NOT WELL DESIGNED WE NEED AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN TRANSPARENCY WE'RE LOOKIN' FOR RESTRUCTURE INSTITUTIONS NOW A CALLING TO ALL EUROPEANS TO JOIN FORCES TO STOP THIS SOON THE EUROPEAN DEMOLISHMENT WE NEED THE STRONGEST SHIELD TO ATTEMPT PREVENT THE EUROPEAN COLLAPSE CAUSE IT WILL BE THE HARDEST FIGHT! SAVE OUR EUROPE FROM THE COLLAPSE EUROPE IS DEAD DEAD FUCKIN’ DEAD I’M EUROPEAN, I AM DEAD YOU’RE EUROPEAN, YOU ARE DEAD WE’RE EUROPEAN, WE ARE DEAD SAVE OUR EUROPE FROM THE COLLAPSE
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about

"Dancing as an act of rebellion" is the first Abraxas LP in collaboration with the Valencian label Soil Records. A compilation of the first project recordings released between 2020 and 2021 plus some new tracks and, in addition to this, a second disc by other darkwave electronic artists remixing the first one: Geistform, We Are Not Brothers, Ober Dada, Melting Dogmas, SMforma, HBK1, José Rodríguez, SOJ and PanDemian.

Throughout the World, dance has always been a vital act of rebellion, so on a conceptual level, the album aims to vindicate dance as a weapon of protest and struggle. Because on one hand, it has always been an area of ​​control for the dominant culture but, on the other hand, the world has always used it as an instrument of social activism. Proof of the first is that patriarchy has always equated the female body dancing with prostitution; from the second, something as recent as the demonstrations with feminist dances in Latin America against the same patriarchy. And we can count dozens of examples in which dance has played an important role in political-social battles, from the famous "ghost dances" of the Native Americans to the Extinction Rebellion dances at COP26 in Glasgow last November.

Mythical sentences such as that of the pioneering North American anarchist Emma Goldman "If I can't dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution" or that of the Chilean president Salvador Allende -sadly muerdered by the CIA- "There will be no revolution without songs", only reinforce these ideas.

Dancing is joy and freedom. Joy is power. Dance is expression of truth. The truth cannot be hidden in a dancing body. And dance feeds us with joy, reminding us of who we are and that we are worthy. And that is not tolerable for the establishment, who wants us to be sat and still. That is the reason why dance movements have been so powerful and so transgressive.

Beyond this vindictive allegation, the LP deals with issues as important and controversial as anti-capitalism; environmentalism, climate change, collapse and the human being as a virus; sexism, misogyny, feminicide and heteropatriarchy; concept of homeland and nation; working class, class war and revolution; disinformation, disinformation, post-truth and fake news; the scourge of religion or the decline of Western civilization.

Abraxas is a totally independent and self-managed project halfway between harsh electronic music, philosophical reflection and socio-political activism. Its main goal is to shake bodies and minds by spreading messages of individual and social self-criticism from the point of view of duality, extremes and contradictions, inherent to the human being and capitalist society.

Visit abraxas.dance/​ to learn more about the project, read its ten point manifesto, subscribe to the mailing list to stay tuned about our last news, releases, gigs and other issues and do not forget to follow us on social media and streaming platforms here: li.sten.to/Abraxas

Hope you like it. Hope you dance to it. Hope you think of it.

credits

released November 5, 2022

CREDITS

Disc 1: original tracks and remixes by Abraxas (Damià Llorens Picó). Composed, recorded and mixed at his home studio in Alcoi. Final mix at Estudio Antimateria/Moog24 (Elx) with José Rodríguez.
Disc 2: disc 1 remixed by other artists.
Mastering by Rude 66 (Den Haag).
Art direction by Damià Llorens.
Artwork by Greta Haga (London) Inspired by the idyllic picture of a couple of rioters dancing a tango during the 2019 violent street protests in Santiago de Chile, amid smoke caused by tear gas canisters, wearing balaclavas on their young and revolutionary heads.(https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2554458981504354).
Published by Abraxas and Soil Records (València).

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