Music of the Control System
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Summary
Mark Devlin is a long-standing English radio and club DJ specializing in hip-hop. Although he s interested in all aspects of conspiracy, the true nature of reality and human consciousness, his area of special interest is in the methods by which the music industry is being systematically subverted by the control system. Earlier this year, he recorded a conversation with David Icke about what really goes on beneath the surface of the music biz.
Transcript
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This is Radio 314 on the Red Ice Radio Network.
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who is a long-standing English radio and club DJ specializing in hip-hop.
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Although he's interested in all aspects of conspiracy,
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true nature of reality, and human consciousness,
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his area of special interest is in the methods by which the music industry
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is being systematically subverted by the control system.
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Earlier this year, he recorded a conversation with David Icke
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about what really goes on beneath the surface of the music biz.
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Hey, Lana. Good to kick it to a fellow music head.
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No, I was avoiding the Olympics like the plague.
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No, I was watching out for them, but I didn't see any.
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But we've got the Paralympics to go, so who knows?
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Well, before we get into the ugly business of music,
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such as when and how you became a radio and club DJ.
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Okay. Well, I've always been a music fan, always loved music.
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Bought my first record when I was five, which was nothing too corny.
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And I spent all my childhood years just listening to chant music,
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And in my teenage years, I kind of refined my tastes
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Soul, funk, hip-hop, reggae, that sort of thing.
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And I sort of fine-tuned my listening and went down that route
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and decided that I really wanted to become a DJ
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And in the intervening years, I managed to get onto radio
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And I've been fortunate enough to play in over 40 countries.
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But I've never actually played in Italy for some reason.
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so maybe you were spinning some of that as well.
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If there's any Italian promoters listening, hit me up.
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which was a long-running UK black music publication.
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So, yeah, that's been my career, really, so far.
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So, have you and your DJ friends noticed a big change
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in the audience these days versus, I don't know, 10 years ago?
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It's something I talk about all the time with other DJs
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because it sort of takes somebody of my age and generation
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a sort of generational conditioning, if you like.
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And it's been the subject of a number of podcasts,
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but I've moved those into conversation-based more recently.
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And we are discussing things like how the music has changed,
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and how music is used for mind-control purposes.
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And, you know, sometimes the truth is inconvenient,
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Well, we're going to get into some of those topics,
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but first I just want to talk about the music industry.
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And do you think it's been controlled from the start?
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I mean, because we could take this all the way back to even classical music.
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Well, there is evidence to suggest that it's been controlled all along.
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But my particular area of interest is the music that I've played over the years,
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which, broadly speaking, is hip-hop and R&B, but mainly hip-hop.
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And what I've noticed is, as I said, I got started in 1990.
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And if you speak to any sort of bona fide hip-hop head, hip-hop purist,
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they'll tell you that the early 90s was considered something of a golden age for hip-hop.
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everything was very creative and very innovative.
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You had a lot of great acts and groups that had very distinct identities.
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The lyrical content of tracks was very potent, very meaningful.
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It was addressing things like social issues, police brutality.
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There was a phase in hip-hop that started talking about the nation of Islam
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and the Five Percenters, which was a sort of faction of Islam
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And so things kind of trotted along until about 1997.
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And I've pinpointed 1997 as a year where there was a noticeable change
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in what was happening with hip-hop music in terms of lyrics,
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And interestingly, I was recording a podcast last month
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So there seems to be some validity to that year.
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And 1997 was a pretty dark year generally in the UK
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And 1997 was also the year that Princess Diana was assassinated.
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And in hip-hop, it was the year that the Notorious B.I.G.
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was assassinated, alternately known as Biggie Smalls,
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And a lot of people kind of pinpoint the murder of Biggie
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You know, it changes over time and it's just a trend.
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Waking up, shaking up, waking up by the million
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Waking up, shaking up, waking up by the million