Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk And Agit Pop From The Hermit Kingdom, by Various Artists

Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk And Agit Pop From The Hermit Kingdom

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1.	Motherland Megamix 05:13	buy track
2.	New Model Army 05:58	buy track
3.	Numbers Game 06:38	buy track
4.	Pride Of The Nation 09:03	buy track
5.	Start 'Em Young 05:34	buy track
6.	Arirang 05:02	buy track
7.	Commie Funk 03:38	buy track
8.	Motherland Redux 06:29	buy track

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Schmaltzy synthpop, Revolutionary rock, Cheeky child rap, and a healthy dose of hagiography for Dear Leader Kim Jong-il, this is the now NOW sound of North Korea! A hermit kingdom with a rich folk history and an even richer tradition in over-the-top praise for the ruling House of Kim, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remains a diplomatic thorn and a culture never Neverland. Boasting a heady mix of Stalin opera, Tokyo karaoke and brooding impressionism, the sound of present-day Pyongyang distills into warped agit-pop and lost-in-time commie funk. If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in North Korean music, this is your vehicle for exploration. Christiaan Virant has visited this mysterious land and has assembled this amazing audio collage. Captured within are rare live recordings from various performances and mass games demonstrations, sounds lifted from People’s Army television dramas, samples from hard-to-find CD releases obtained in the capital, and of course, news reports from the “real” Radio Pyongyang, which continues to broadcast to this day, albeit under the new, strikingly anodyne moniker “Voice of Korea."

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released March 23, 2010

Compiled By Christiaan Virant

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, other forms of human and natural natural expression not documented sufficiently enough by various communication channels. ... more

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