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Will the real ljudstvo please stand up?

Ustvarja se vtis, kot bi bilo ljudstvo nekaj neposrednega, konkretnega.
Ljudstvo je abstraktna kategorija. Najbolj abstraktna možna – ravno zaradi iluzije neposrednosti.
Sklicevanje nanj je po definiciji populizem (menda od tod Laclauovo raziskovanje populizmovih emancipatoričnih potencialov).
Razlikovanje med elito in ljudstvom je v najboljšem primeru sprejemljivo kot nekakšen cinični povračilni ukrep, na podlagi katerega se izkaže, da je t. i. elita večja drhal oziroma bolj lumpen od t. i. ljudstva.
Ker je ljudstvo abstrakcija, se lahko prerekanje in prerivanje okoli tega, kdo/kaj ga predstavlja oziroma kdo/kaj sme govoriti v njegovem imenu, nadaljuje v nedogled.
Ljudstvo predvsem ne more biti stvar številk, preštevanja. Dovolj nevzdržno je že to, da se kot argument – za karkoli – navajajo rezultati anket1. Če je imel en shod večjo udeleženost kot drugi in če to „šteje“ kot večja ljudskost, tj. ljudskost v večji meri, potem se s tem potrjuje tisto strašno pravilo igre, v skladu s katerim se večina uveljavlja zoper/nad manjšino.
Predpostavimo, da bi se na Trgu republike zbrali vsi prebivalci Slovenije. Bi bila to kakršnakoli garancija, da gre za ljudstvo? Kaj če bi šlo „zgolj“ za dva milijona odtujenih monad, vsaka s svojo računico? Metafizična rana nominalizem vs. realizem ostaja odprta.
Ne veseli niti, da se kot merodajna politična ločnica2 vzpostavlja tista, ki deli na hip in square, urbane in kmetavzarje, mlade in stare. O vsem tem je govoril – in še naprej govori, vselej glasneje v tihoti manjšinskosti – že stari dobri Pasolini v stari dobri pesmi KPI mladim!!3, v kateri je podprl policiste, čeprav so bili na napačni strani, a so bili „sinovi ubogih“, zoper študente, ki so bili na pravi strani, a so bili sinovi buržujev. Tudi tokrat novinarji enim „ližejo rit“, tudi tokrat za druge, nikakor ne le policiste, velja, da „to, da so osovraženi, povzroča, da sovražijo“. Ni mogoče reči, da protesti niso vzeli nobene Pasolinijeve lekcije, recimo: „V takih primerih se da policajem rože, prijatelji.“ Vprašljivo je, ali zmorejo pogoltniti tudi tole: „Prestrašeni ste, negotovi, obupani (izvrstno!), ampak znate biti tudi prepotentni, izsiljujoči in na varnem: malomeščanske odlike, prijatelji.“

Stefano Battaglia – Canzone de Laura Betti

  1. beri Pierre Bourdieu: Javno mnenje ne obstaja; v Sociologija kot politika, Založba /*cf., 2003, Ljubljana []
  2. in kult mladine oz. Mladine ima vse s tem []
  3. Pier Paolo Pasolini: Realnost, str. 142-151. Prevod: Miklavž Komelj + Tomislav Vrečar. LUD Šerpa, 2007, Ljubljana []



SMETNJAKOVIH 12: Snuff Crew


1.Who are you, what do you do and where do you do it?


Eins: We are Snuff Crew, two masked guys with a big love for that certain moment of bodyjacking. We do it on stage, at home, in the studio and in your ears. :)



2. Describe your sound in 12 words!

Eins: Jacking, housy, euphoric, acidtweeking, ecstatic, loud
Zwei: Banging, oldschoolish, twirling, heavy, upfront, different


3. Which musician/music act did most significantly influence your music taste?


Eins: All the Chicago House godfathers from the 80s as well as some house, techno, acid and IDM producers from the 90s.
Zwei: Everybody who went beyond musical borders and didn’t give a damn about trends and habits.

4. Blue pill or red pill?

Eins: Depends on how they work. A blue pill could cause trouble at the security check probably. :)
Zwei: I prefer Pils.

5. Which are your superpowers?


Eins: A big love for music, food, places, moments, people, girls..
Zwei: The ability to sneak between the party people before and after the gig without being recognized :)



6. Which song should have been on every CD recorded for the loved one?

Eins: Snuff Crew presents Snuffo – “Missing You (All The Time)” :)
Zwei: Kylie Mynogue – Do The Locomotion.



7. Who is DJ Umek?


Eins: Who is Snuff Crew?
Zwei: I always have to think of the canned soup brand “Unox” when I think of the name Uros Umek – sorry, I can’t resist. But I actually like his stuff, I still have his “Neuro” LP at home, released on the great Tehnika label (which also released the Octex album, still one of my all time favourites). 


8. Why do they put round pizza in a square box?


Eins: Because they can. :)
Zwei: So that you can use the box for shipping records afterwards, I guess.



9. What do you do, when you are not occupied with music?


Eins: Trying everything to be occupied again with music, working on other arts or losing time and space in the crazy nightlife of Berlin.
Zwei: Leading an average life. Could be compared to Peter Parker.



10. Who is your favourite Game Over member?


Eins: Game Over?
Zwei: Bowser



11. Current top 4 for the dancefloor and top 3 for the car?


Eins:
Dancefloor: 

1) Skatebard – Love in the Night (Bordello A Parigi)

2) Ma Spaventi – The Jungle/Insanity (MOS Deep)

3) In Aeternam Vale – La Piscine (Minimal Wave) 

4) House of Stank – Beat and a Blur (Snuff Crew Remix (Get Up Recordings)





Car (I actually don`t have one)


1) TM404 – TM404 (Kontra-Musik)

2) Basic Soul Unit – Motional Response (Still Music) 

3) Stefan Gubatz – Distanz (Telrae)

Zwei:
Dancefloor:
1. Midland – Placement / Lone Remix
2. Killekill Megahits (The whole thing)
3. Claudio PRC – Commutate
4. Hardfloor – The Trill Acid Theme / E.R.P. Remix

Car: (boring old Hyundai Matrix)
1. TM404 – TM404
2. Monolake – Ghosts
3. Byetone – Death Of A Typographer



12. Last pearls of wisdom?


Eins: Not going out is no solution.

Zwei: Don’t forget to go home.

Snuff Crew – Domo




Gorenak naveza

Johnny Cash – Cocaine Blues (Live at Folsom Prison)



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PUSTNI SMETNJAK x SNUFF CREW


Snuff Crew has got nothing to do with snuff movies. It has to do with smokeless tobacco. Snuff Crew consists of two German guys, whose real names remain unknown. They simply call themselves Eins and Zwei. If you would shout out their names interchangingly, you would probably sound like a German Drill Sergeant. Yes, we have seen Full Metal Jacket. This was a bit off. That guy is not even German. He is from the US. So are the people Snuff Crew lists as influences. We won’t list them. Snuff Crew thinks analogue machines are simply magic. When they talk about their music, they use words like ‘acid’ and ‘jack’. On their Facebook they post lots of music from early nineties. Not all of us understand why they are so enthusiastic about it. We don’t think they would ever post a song with only a heart symbol next to it. Our biology teacher from high school went to politics. We always hated that guy. One of us had sex with his daughter. She is now engaged to a famous basketball player. That was too much of a diversion. Snuff Crew is good friends with KiNK, a man-crush of our very own NubiS. This is not why we got them. Snuff Crew considers their music as unfinished and experimental. Not in a way John Cage would understand this. Or John Lennon. We are referring to the title of those noise albums he did with Yoko Ono. We never really got what they were all about. Is there something to get? Like a message or a point? We don’t think so. Why do we talk like this then? Out of habit, purely out of habit. Also because it’s nice to talk like everybody else, to say the sun rises, when everybody knows it’s only a manner of speaking. This was an uncredited quote. Appropriation is literary communism. Snuff Crew logo looks like it could be printed on a New Yorker jersey. That has got nothing to do with us liking or disliking it. Snuff Crew performs live and wears masks on stage. They believe it is about the music, not about them. We believe them. Do we believe Danza Macabra? Maybe. We have invited Lavka as well. We heard he knows lots of acid songs. Gregij, Fejzo, Žakpižon, Loutseau, and Moe Lester are playing on the smaller floor. They will beat the shit out of speakers with garage music. We don’t know any of the tracks they are playing. We mainly listen to pop songs. Koala™ will take over the visuals. We are curious, what he is up to. (Mina, we still like you, although you talk shit about us in glossy magazines.) INAK will do the decorations. They are the ones who make us look pretty. We like them a lot. Sometimes they are a bit slow with emails. We are probably too demanding, but we do it to ourselves too. Shout-outs to Jaka Neon, Mique M. Praktik and Don’t Call Me Urška! PUST, MOTHERLOVERS!

Facebook event.

Snuff Crew – Clarity

Snuff Crew – Control

Franz & Shape – Acid One (Snuff Crew Vocal remix)



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Človek človeku Vogue

Serge Daney leta 1985 o zgornji misiji1: “These were my thoughts a few days ago while watching on television images of very famous singers and very starving African children. The rich singers (“We are the world, we are the children!”) were mixing their image with the image of the skinny children. Actually they were taking their place; they were replacing and erasing them. Mixing stars and skeletons in a typical fast editing where two images try to become one, the video elegantly carried out this electronic communication between North and South. /…/ These are the images I would like at least one teenager to be disgusted by and ashamed of. Not merely ashamed to be fed and affluent, but ashamed to be seen as someone who has to be aesthetically seduced where it is only a matter of conscience – good or bad – of being a human and nothing more. /…/ What was the meaning of Godard’s formula2 if not that one should never put himself where one isn’t nor should he speak for others?”

Diskurz o lakoti (tistih drugih, nevidnih) kot priložnost za lastno vidnost. Oglaševanje oglašuje samo sebe. Siti besed, a nikdar fraz. Če ne drugega, (se) vsaj slabo igrajo.

Požrtvovalnost odpetih srajčnih gumbov. Če se že razkazujejo frisi, čemu se ne bi še oprsja? Lačna usta menda ja ne bodo razpravljala o okusnosti, naj gre za hrano ali početje. Bernard-Henri Lévy, svetovni prvak v tej disciplini3, se nastavlja soncu v Darfurju. Prizorišče genocida kot plaža ali solarij. Tetka gre na Jug. “Glejte me, kako gledam bedo in lakoto, ki je vi nočete videti.” Revolucionarni turizem sreča Unicef turizem. Turizem, ki ima ravno kot simulacija najbolj uničujoče učinke. Človek človeku Vogue.

  1. V posnetku, ki ga je gledal, so se podobe afriških otrok še izmenjevale, prelivale s podobami zvezdnikov, iz pričujočega so že izginile. []
  2. “Tracking shoti so moralni problem.” []
  3. Tako kot v oni drugi, psevdofilozofiji, v kateri potolče celo Žižka. []


Tags: We are Trash