Al hilo de Powell: - You’re responsible for probably one of my favorite moments that I’ve ever experienced at Berlin’s Berghain. At CTM you played a record that sampled Adolf Hitler to a crowded dance floor. - That’s a track by the old New Beat band called Bassline Boys called “Warbeat”. I always read it as an anti-Nazi track because, if you listen closely, there are clear remarks about plotting Hitler’s downfall. There are also Churchill samples to offset Hitler’s “Sieg Heil” samples. It’s difficult to know where that band itself stood because they only made a few records as far as I know—probably because of that one, to be honest. But how are we to know their intent 25 years later? All we can do is make our own minds up based on the music we hear. So for me, yes, playing the record was meant to be provocative because it forces you to ask those questions, but it was never meant as anything more than that. CTM gravitates towards music that provokes, so it felt like it would be an interesting time to play that record. I apologize if it caused offense.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 19:28:43 +0000
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