Wax Audio Downloads :
Wax Audio has released a trilogy of politically themed EPs - WMD ...and other distractions (2004), Mediacracy (2005) and Cut, Paste and Run (2007). All are available for free download below. Also available here are CMYK (2005 - an album of original instrumental tracks) and MASHOPOLOS (2007 - a collection of mashup/bootleg/bastard-pop tunes). Click on the relevant links (or the album cover thumbnails) to go to the album pages for track by track commentary, album/track artwork and other info.
All MP3 audio files are encoded at 320Kbps
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THE WAX AUDIO MASHED MEDIA TRILOGY (2003 - 2007)
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WAX AUDIO PRESENTS :
| | CUT, PASTE AND RUN - Released online : November 2007 | This third and final installment of Wax Audio's Mashed Media EP trilogy, began with WMD ...and other distractions (2004) and continued with MEDIACRACY (2005). It features eight brand new politically charged tracks crammed with juicy sound bytes from a typically familiar and obscure selection of politicians, pundits, public citizens, rockers & rappers from Cronulla to Harlem, Tehran to Tel Aviv and Washington to Baghdad. Cut, Paste & Run brings you songs and sounds of love and hate, peace and war - and of course, bitter-sweet irony in the form of a special encore performance from Commander in Chief George W Bush as he passionately recites two more John Lennon classics!
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MP3 - 320 kbps
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| 1. WAR |
1:55 |
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| 2. YOU BETTER RUN, YOU BETTER TAKE COVER |
4:09 |
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| 3. WIPED OFF THE MAP |
4:52 |
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| 4. THE 4th BRANCH (Kashmiri Mix) |
6:24 |
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| 5. HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) |
4:19 |
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| 6. GOD |
4:10 |
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| 7. PEACE |
1:19 |
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| WATCH HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) - THE VIDEO (by Cal TV)
Go to the main Cut, Paste and Run page for track commentary and high res cover art.
You can download a zip file of Cut, Paste and Run (57MB) here. |
WAX AUDIO PRESENTS : | | MEDIACRACY - Released to selected media and online : March 2005
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The belly of the Wax Audio hard drive has continued to digest the raw data of captured media, spewing forth its re-contextualized response without missing a beat. MEDIACRACY offers 7 new tracks, several thousand samples and as dense a mashing of news media as you've heard. The 25 minute aural assault brings together the bumbling contradictions of Alexander Downer, the harmonious mashing of Hollywood action movie trailers vs. US news war coverage, the expletive drenched tirades of Australia's favorite shock-jocks, the anthemic declamations of a prevailing war president and his sentimental recitation of the world's most beloved peace anthem.
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320kbps (high) |
| 1. HOWARD KILLED |
3:23 |
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| 2. UNPARALLELED DANGER |
4:29 |
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| 3. LOOK OUT! |
0:21 |
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| 4. OFF THE AIR |
3:07 |
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| 5. THIS CRUSADE |
3:09 |
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| 6. MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS |
4:54 |
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| 7. IMAGINE THIS |
4:32 |
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WATCH IMAGINE THIS - THE VIDEO (by Cal TV)
Go to the main MEDIACRACY page for complete track information, sources and high res cover art.
You can download a zip file of MEDIACRACY (53MB) here. |
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| WAX AUDIO PRESENTS :
| | WMD ...and other distractions - Released to selected media and online : February 2004 |
Wax Audio's debut on-line release WMD ...and other distractions is a 21-minute cut & paste audio montage offering a condensed, concise and transparent run-down of the most high-profile political manoeuvres broadcast over Australian air-waves during the first 3 years of this millennium. Toe-tappingly listenable and scathingly satirical, it reviews media coverage of the US led "War on Terror", the lead up to the un-precedented "pre-emptive" attack & corporate take-over of Iraq by the so-called "Coalition of the Willing" and the farcical (yet disturbingly effective) attempts by the Australian Government to demonize off-shore refugees seeking asylum in this country during the "Children Overboard" affair.
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320 kbps (high) |
| 1. WMD - AMERICAN JUSTICE |
2:39 |
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| 2. A DAY OF HORROR |
2:28 |
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| 3. DISTURBING PRACTICES (OVERBOARD) |
4:54 |
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| 4. RAMSHACKLE |
3:42 |
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| 5. BUSHBEATS |
7:38 |
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Go to the main WMD ...and other distractions page for complete track information,
sources and high res cover art.
You can download a zip file of WMD ...and other distractions (42.5MB) here. |
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WAX AUDIO'S OTHER STUFF...
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WAX AUDIO PRESENTS :
| | MASHOPOLOS - Released online : April 2007 (Re-Mastered May 2008!) | On a somewhat less serious note, this is MASHOPOLOS! It's a pop, hard-rock, metal, disco, movie-soundtrack, hindi-pop, bhangra type album put together using other people's music. Mashed artists include Led Zeppelin vs Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd vs The Bee Gees, Iron Maiden vs Bollywood and PJ Harvey vs Tori Amos vs Bjork vs Massive Attack. Each pairing was achieved by loving cajoling and violent contortion of the source materials and was produced in Athens, Greece (hence the album title) throughout February and March 2007. For full track details and individual track artwork go to the MASHOPOLOS album page...
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MP3 - 320 kbps
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| 1. BLACK ZEPPELIN - WHOLE LOTTA SABBATH |
3:14 |
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| 2. THUNDER BUSTERS |
3:44 |
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| 3. STAYIN' ALIVE IN THE WALL |
3:16 |
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| 4. HALLOWED BE THY ENEMY |
3:41 |
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| 5. FULL METAL JACKSON |
2:34 |
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| 6. BACK IN BLACKENED |
2:45 |
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| 7. MASHING UP THAT HILL |
4:27 |
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| 8. MAIDEN GOES TO BOLLYWOOD |
3:57 |
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| 9. METALLICA GOES TO PUNJAB |
3:53 |
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| 10. DISSOLVED BY THE WATER ALL THESE YEARS |
4:09 |
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For full track details and individual track artwork go to the MASHOPOLOS album page... |
| | Download Wax Audio's latest mash MAIDEN GOES TO HOLLYWOOD 18.2MB, 7:56
Iron Maiden's album Powerslave was released in September 1984, just one month prior to the release of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's equally seminal Welcome to the Pleasuredome. Whilst the two albums represented opposite ends of the pop music milieu, both shared equal measures of camp, chest-beating bravado, epic songwriting and interestingly, themes based on the work of the 18th century English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Created exclusively for the Iron Maiden mashup album Number Of Da Boots - Released: July 2007. |
WAX AUDIO PRESENTS :
| | C M Y K - Released to nobody in particular in October 2005
| If long, stitched together chunks of meandering, acoustic-electric-industrial-prog-ambient-guitarwank-travelogue instrumental pieces are your bag - then swing by and check out these four original instrumental tracks. CMYK Features recordings taken from various rock/metal/prog bands I played as far back as high school (including a live gig at the local youth cafe), rehearsal tapes, heavily re-mixed audio from the 24 track master tapes of an aborted prog-rock opus, ambient e-bow/volume pedal indulgences from the mid 90's, drunken living-room floor 4-track projects, field recordings I made on the streets of Kathmandu, a flute player I met in a cave in Jordan and even a few nifty bits and pieces I outright nicked from my bass playing mate Benson.
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320 kbps (high)
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| 1. CYAN |
12:02 |
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| 2. MAGENTA |
9:57 |
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| 3. YELLOW |
14:31 |
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| 4. BLACK |
14:25 |
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Go to the main C M Y K page for more information.
You can download a ZIP file of the entire C M Y K album (115MB) here. |
LEGAL STUFF
These non-commercial, not for profit audio works are intended as an artistic form of social commentary and political satire and have been created in accordance with the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), specifically the Fair Dealing provisions (section 41) which contain provisions for adaptations of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work for the purpose of "criticism or review":
"People can use copyright material for the purpose of criticism or review without infringing copyright..."
"The criticism or review may relate to the work being used or to other material. For example, television film reviewers may show clips from other films as well as the one they are reviewing, in making their criticism or review. The Federal Court has stated that "criticism and review" involves making a judgment of the material concerned, or of the underlying ideas. Criticism and review may be strongly expressed, and may be expressed humorously, and need not be balanced".
- Australian Copyright Council Information Sheet G079 Fair dealing
If you are the copyright owner (or the representative) of any of the original works referenced in any material on this web site and do not believe that your work has been appropriated within the context of the Fair Dealing provision of the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and would like a clearer more substantive acknowledgment, please contact Wax Audio.
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