I've been flirting with the thought for the best part of the last year of starting a political/punk podcast that focuses on music. The concept is basically that every episode would have a theme with hardcore/punk/crust/grind/powerviolence tracks that may or may not have something to do with the topic and between those samples that are about the topic, these could be protest soundbites, lectures, rants, news reports, interview snippets, maybe even cutouts from audiobooks. For example i started to make an episode on Palestine last summer and collected stuff like audio of fights between palestinians and israeli fash from Sheikh Jarrah, recordings of bomb raids from Gaza and that CNN interview where the reporter asks a Palestinian guy who got evicted if he supports the "violent protests" on his behalf and he asks if the reporter supports ethnic cleansing.

That was a lot of work, way more than i think it should've been and that - with my father's death and a nasty fight with a shitty landlord which also contributed - made me shelf this thing but now that my life is kinda back on track i want to look into it again. My question is: where do i get soundbites from? For the Palestine one i was scraping Twitter but it was very obvious that i was right in avoiding that site for years like plague so i would treat that as a last resort. I am thinking about sites/youtube channels/subreddits/whatever that collects interviews, news reports, lectures, podcast outtakes, anything that can help.

Thanks in advance!

  • SocialistActionCan [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I purchased a tape recorder to be able to share sounds of protests, rallies, and marches I attend in Toronto. I think it's important to share the real sounds rather than the sanitized coverage that diminishes the role of struggle. I'm not too familiar with any central place to grab audio like that but feel free to use anything from The Red Review!

  • trabpukcip [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    huh i thought about doing a "radio show" (more ambience, more music, less direct podcast talking) where i played my favorite records (mostly punk), explained why i found them good, gave backstory to personal meaning, and worked in political stuff around it. i encourage you to go for it so i don't have to.

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      That idea is great too! I don't really have confidence in my spoken english to put my voice behind it, that's why i am looking for samples at the moment. The end result should be something like this: https://www.mixcloud.com/kongfuzi/mixtape-kongfuzi-28-wrath-a-metal-summer-2014/

  • ThomasMuentzner [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I think its a nice Idea but i would not Limit the Music Genre , if only Punk is allowed then you only gonna limit yourself ..

    like these two banger songs on palestina are not Punk , but they are good..

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ofPQuvrZU

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLU4THkuIsM

    • DivineChaos100 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I chose punk specifically because that's my favorite, I can see it expanding in the future since i have a pretty large and growing collection and the ultimate goal is to start an online radio (or even more) where i will definitely not stick to punk but i'll have to do a lot of research for that still.