This Machine Kills - On the move EP

"Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it, if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate. But we have no patterns for relating across our human differences as equals. As a result, those differences have been misnamed and misused in the service of separation and confusion." (Audre Lord, Sister outsider, 1984).

Grupo californiano que hace especial hincapié (en las letras y explicaciones que las acompañan e incluso en el diseño) en los aspectos raciales de la política radical (interesante texto sobre esta tema en el punk, firmado por el cantante y el chico del sello que sacó el disco) siguiendo el ejemplo de otros grupos afropunks o latinos en Estados Unidos por esas fechas. Musicalmente, me recuerda a grupos como Yaphet Kotto o Bread and Circuits, hardcore energético, rabioso, positivo y con actitud. Este es uno de sus primeros discos (cuatro canciones donde para mí destaca la primera: The revenge of John Africa). Además de una buena lista de siete pulgadas compartidos llegaron editar un LP.

"Anger is energy, it's a force. If an act of injustice doesn't provoke anger in me, it could be seen as idifference, passivity. It's injustice that motivates us to do something, to take risks, knowing that if we don't, things will remain the same." (Digna Ochoa).

Sacado por El Grito Records de Estados Unidos y el sello holandés Coalition Records en el 2000.

"I believe in life. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweet of love and in the fire of truth. And I believe that a lost ship steered by tired seasick sailors can still be guided home to port." (Assata Shakur).

This Machine Kills - On the move EP