Communique 3

December 3 1998: 3:06pm

    Greetings from the revolution. This is more of an article than a communique, but check it anyways. As always email our asses at mind_rape@excite.com

    Hip hop revolutionaries, Public Enemy, recently recorded a new album called Bring The Noise 2000. This album is a bunch of remixes plus a few new cuts. After PE records all the songs and gets the album ready, their record label DefScam, told Public Enemy that they weren't going to release the record. Buncha bullshit. So anyways, PE figures 'if we can't release the album, we may as well give it away for free to the fans over the internet'. So they record all the songs in an .mp3 format and begin uploading 2 new songs each week onto their website (www.public-enemy.com). So, for a while, it's all good. The fans get to hear the new songs (which kick fucking ass!) and PE gets to hear people's responses to the music.

    Everything is fine UNTIL the record company steps in. For some reason or another, they decide that they own the music and that PE can't distribute it for free over the internet. They force Public Enemy to take the songs off of the internet. The fans are outraged. Chuck D makes no attempt to hide his anger. Why would the record company care about the songs if they've already said they're not going to release them? And didn't Chuck D write the songs anyways? Can't he do whatever he wants with them. It's just another case of "tin eared, graph paper brained accountants, instead of music fans ... calling all the shots at record companies now" (Jello Biafra). These people who have taken art and turned it into an entertainment slave trade are scared of .mp3 technology. They know that once this stuff really takes off, they're no longer needed. Then they have to actually work for a living, instead of riding on the coat tails of the artists.

    So, you're probably wondering what this has to do with Mind Rape Magazine? Well, we've decided to take matters into our own hands. We're not gonna stand by while PE gets fucked over by a bunch of suit wearing morons. We're saying fuck you to the record companies - fuck their exploitation and fuck their spiteful ideals. So what are we doing about it? We've got some of the Bring The Noise 2000 songs, and we're putting em online. Illegal as this may be, we have to do something about this. We can't let these KKKapitalist morons ruin art just for the sake of being spiteful. So just click on the links below to download the appropriate song.  I hope you enjoy em. Oh yeah, and if you were one of the lucky ones to get a copy of the whole CD - then email us at mind_rape@excite.com and we can hook it up so that we can put the rest of the songs online as well...

                                                                                POL

PS: The tracks have a .zip extension - so when you go to the link - your browser should begin to download the file automatically. Once the file downloads onto your hard drive, you'll have to rename the files to mp3. (ie: track1.zip becomes track1.mp3).

PPS: Track #5 and #6 have been removed, because I need to make room for the gnu tracks, and these tracks are avaiable elsewhere (find out at www.public-enemy.com. But for now I hope you enjoy the new MindDeep Tracks. Unfortunately, I had to break the song up into 2 parts. If anyone knows how to join the 2 into one MP3 file - go ahead. Otherwise, Njoy.

Track #1 - More Hype Believers Than Ever In 97

Track #2 - Welcome To The Terrordome

Track #3 - Bring The Noise

Track #4 - You Gonna Get Yours

Track #4 - Mind Deep Pt. 1/2

Track #4 - Mind Deep Pt. 2/2