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The Vinyl Project
Various — The Vinyl Project, 2003. Verified release details and tracklist.
- Label
- The Freedom Archives
- Catalog
- none
- Year
- 2003
- Format
- Vinyl
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Listening notes
Released in 2003 on The Freedom Archives label, The Vinyl Project is a various artists compilation issued on vinyl with no assigned catalog number. The record spans two sides and carries a combined total of 79 tracks — 41 on the A side and 38 on the B side — with no track durations listed in the available documentation.
The release is catalogued under several genre designations: Cut-up/DJ, DJ Battle Tool, Non-Music, Political, Speech, and Spoken Word. Those classifications together suggest a record conceived as raw material for turntablist and DJ use, built from spoken voice rather than conventional musical performance.
The track titles across both sides consistently address themes of incarceration, state violence, imperialism, labor, indigenous sovereignty, racism, and political resistance. Titles on the A side include "Torture Going On In California's Prisons," "U.N. Definition Of Torture 1984," "Capitalism Needs Poverty," "If The Nuremberg Were Applied," and "This Is Not My Country But It Is My Land," among others. The B side continues in a similar register with titles such as "A 500 Year History Of Invasion," "Organizing Against Genocide," "Anarcho-syndicalism," "On Lolita Lebron," "Corporate Media," and "Governments Lie."
The Freedom Archives, based in San Francisco, has operated as an organization dedicated to preserving audio and video recordings connected to progressive and liberation movements. The Vinyl Project appears consistent with that archival and activist orientation, translating recorded speech into a format intended for direct use by DJs and turntablists.
No personnel, session information, or additional production credits are available in the verified documentation for this release.
Tracklist
On the record
- A1Power To The People, Free Our People
- A2Slavery Is Back
- A3Increasingly Incarcerated Society
- A4Torture Going On In California's Prisons
- A5New Form Of Plantation
- A6U.N. Definition Of Torture 1984
- A7I Shouldn't Be In Prison
- A8Stop Trickin' White Folks
- A9Who Nobody Elected
- A10Bitter Class War
- A11Fiery Red Emma
- A12Capitalism Needs Poverty
- A13American People Are The Last People To Wake Up
- A14Economic Sabotage
- A15Nobody Speaking For The Timber Workers
- A16All Part Of Corporate Exploitation
- A17World Beyond America
- A18Avaricious Pigs
- A19Amazingly Hypocritical
- A20Out Of Washington
- A21A Decision To Make
- A22If The Nuremberg Were Applied
- A23We Think The Price Is Worth It
- A24Stop Killing Other People's Babies
- A25Policies Of Extermination
- A26My Beliefs
- A27Faln
- A28The Biggest Criminal Gang
- A29Our Freedom
- A30Untitled
- A31Myth Of Man
- A32Gonna Stand
- A33This Is About All Of Us
- A34Two-spirit Folks
- A35Do Not Negotiate
- A36This Is Not My Country But It Is My Land
- A37Shrink Wrap
- A38I'm A Member Of A Nation
- A39Not A Republican And Not A Democrat
- A40We're Poor, And Raza Unida And Chicano People
- A41Para Nosotros De La Raza
- B1Try Me Out
- B2The Brown Case
- B3Wink Of Democracy
- B4The Cops And The Klan
- B5Other Forms Of Struggle
- B6Defeat Of Its Parents
- B7The War In Vietnam
- B8The Hidden Fist
- B9Poisoned Alphabet Economic Soup
- B10Dominated By The U.S.
- B11They Kill Everything With Money
- B12I See Myself Struggling
- B13A 500 Year History Of Invasion
- B14Blood That's Dripping
- B15Organizing Against Genocide
- B16Anarcho-syndicalism
- B17Police Brutality
- B18Political Prisoners
- B19Not Successful In That Aspect
- B20What Can We Do About It
- B21Self-defense
- B22On Lolita Lebron
- B23Every Empire
- B24You Can Frighten The Ruling Class
- B25Deal With It
- B26On Ruben Salazar's Death
- B27Resist With All Our Creativity
- B28Mind Controlling Maniacs
- B29Think For Yourself
- B30Everybody Marches
- B31Military Intervention Disastrous
- B32Corporate Media
- B33Corporate Propaganda
- B34Indoctrination Essence Of Democracy
- B35Governments Lie
- B36Education Is A System
- B37We Don't Forget
- B38Power To The People
