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Dear Friends,
At long last, Public Record has released the remix
compilation
BLOK70:TRANSLATIONS on the Public Record website.
Notify your
colleagues and
allies that the entire album is available for free
download at the
following
link:
http://www.ultrared.org/publicrecord/archive/2-02/2-02-007/2-02-007.html
Each track can be downloaded in mp3 format for free as
well as album
art and
press release.
For this project we want to thank the amazing
musicians who
participated in the
translations: Octex, Oticon, Elliot Perkins, Piece of
Shh, Ultra-red,
Unicomplex, and Vuneny. Special thank to Zeljko Blace
the project's
Executive
Producer and our good friend.
Also thanks to the folks with Transit Migration and
Project Migration
for their
enthusiastic support of Ultra-red's entire BLOK70
project. Special
mention goes
to Marion Von Osten, Regina Roemhild, and Sophie
Goltz.
In solidarity,
Dont Rhine
Los Angeles
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August 1, 2006
Los Angeles
For immediate release:
PUBLIC RECORD RETURNS TO BALKAN REGION FOR NEW REMIX
COMPILATION
For BLOK70:TRANSLATIONS, five artists from the Balkan
region compose
exclusive
tracks from sounds sampled off the Ultra-red album
BLOK70 (PR
2-02-006). Each
artist lifted sounds recorded at the migrant-run
discount market in
Belgrade's
housing block number 70.
In the summer of 2004, Ultra-red co-founder Dont Rhine
and England's
Elliot
Perkins traveled to Belgrade, Serbia accompanying
Ultra-red member
Manuela
Bojadzijev from Kanak Attak and NextGENDERation
researcher Rutvica
Andrijasevic. Conducting a militant sound
investigation, Ultra-red came
to the
marketplace Blok 70 where 300 shops set the stage for
a remarkable
convergence
of Chinese migrant shopkeepers, Serbian shoppers, and
Roma workers.
At the center of the marketplace's culture, a group of
young Serbian
women work
as curators of communication, translating for Chinese
business-owners,
Serbian
customs officials, and customers. From their work as
advocates for
their
migrant employers, the women revealed to Ultra-red a
profound and
complex
analysis of everyday life precariousness in a society
struggling with
xenophobia and racism.
In tribute to the translators at Blok 70, Ultra-red
asked five artists
to
compose tracks from sounds recorded at the
marketplace. Varied
stylistically,
tracks range from deep ambient techno, paranoid
glitch, to progressive
rock
jam. BLOK70:TRANSLATIONS also has an exclusive
Ultra-red bonus track.
BLOK70:TRANSLATIONS is available for free download at
Ultra-red's
PUBLIC RECORD
web archive. Selected with the help of Zagreb-based
free digital
publishing
label EGOBOO.bits (
www.egoboobits.net), artists
translating Blok 70
include
Octex (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Oticon (Zagreb, Croatia),
Vuneny (Mostar,
Bosnia
and Herzegovina), Piece of Shhh (Belgrade,
Serbia-Montenegro),
Unicomplex
(Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), and Blok 70 team
member Elliot
Perkins from
England.
BLOK70:TRANSLATIONS is a part of TRANSIT MIGRATION.
TRANSIT MIGRATION
is part of
"Projekt Migration", a project initiative of the
German Federal
Cultural
Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes) in cooperation
with DOMiT e.V.
(Documentation Centre and Museum on Migration from
Turkey) and the
Kölnischer
Kunstverein.
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Ultra-red
audio-activist
organization. Established for the distribution of
work by Ultra-red
members
and allies, Public Record serves as an interface
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organization and
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albums,
images, texts and video.
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