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Live At Make It Up Club, 2020

by Buttress O'Kneel

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"One often has to wonder as to Buttress' intentions. When she chooses 'Good as Hell' as the source material with which to create a twenty minute improvised breakcore masterpiece, does she intend it to be a sarcastic comment on the world of plagues, protests, unemployment, riots, death, and collapse that we find ourselves living in? Or is it simply a literalisation of the song's title - that we are all currently feeling as good as if we were literally living in Hell? Perhaps it's some kind of deconstructive analysis of Big Entertainment's escapist insistence on us all 'feeling good', no matter the strife we find ourselves in, rather than 'making good' the world around us through activism and action? Is it a bitter commentary on race relations in the U.S - and here in Australia - where people of colour are expected to 'be happy' and stay in their place, rather than speak up and out against institutional racism? That would make sense, given the recent riots and police brutalities - but is it what Buttress intended? Perhaps it is instead just a comment on the mass media machine, churning out 'feel good' ditties to placate the proles, a la 1984, which are then overplayed propaganda style until love becomes hate and no-one ever wants to interact with that piece of music ever again. It's honestly hard to tell what she was thinking.

Is this piece a protest, a meaningless jam, a piece of political detournment, a sarcastic jab, a standing-with-in-solidarity, a piece of intellectual tomfoolery, a heart-driven reworking of something loved or hated? Was the source material completely random? All we know for sure is that piece was improvised for the Make It Up Club, and broadcast on the 14th of July, 2020 - everything else is speculation. Was it created to make us dance? Make us think? Make us angry? Make us happy? Was it created with us in mind at all? Or was it just about Buttress getting a gig? We will never know. But of course, all engagement with 'art' is subjective, and we all have to make these kinds of interpretations on our own, with no-one holding our hands or guiding us through.

It'd be nice to have some sort of clue though."

Department of Critical Overthinking
IWML
2020

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FROM THE ARTIST:

the actual gig can be watched here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAPI_jVHh2M

but that footage was all recorded through an iPad, so the sound there is pretty shit. this recording right here is a direct in-computer recording, so is much much sicker! BREAKCORE FTW


thanks again to the MIUC crew for letting me play.
bđź‘„k

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released July 15, 2020

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Buttress O'Kneel Australia

“Words like "mashup" and "remix" don't really do justice to Buttress O'Kneel's method - Top 40 pop crap gets sliced, diced, and tossed into a dizzying, exciting hardcore electro stew. Compared to other djs who timidly drop a Vanilla Ice acapella over a Chemical Bros intro just to move a dance floor, O'Kneel shreds copyrights with a blood-curdling vehemence. Smash the state!”
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