Wax Audio presents... MEDIACRACY

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.


You can download a zip file of MEDIACRACY (52MB) HERE. Scroll down for individual tracks.

M E D I A C R A C Y  EP

RELEASED TO SELECTED MEDIA AND ONLINE : MARCH 2005

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UNPARALLELED DANGER (4:29) - DOWNLOAD MP3 (320kbps 10.3MB)

Never has paranoid sensationalism and lowest common denominator entertainment-value sounded more disturbingly hilarious! Hear Commander-in-Chief George W Bush fail his elementary geo-political pop-quiz as Arnold Schwarzenegger leaps off the screen into the 2004 Republican national convention - as Hollywood & cable news media engage in an all out war for our attention. Are we living in a time of unparalleled danger? You decide after hearing this summer's most electrifying mashing of blockbuster movie trailers vs news/war coverage.

OFF THE AIR (3:08) - DOWNLOAD MP3 (320kbps 7.2MB)

Written and spoken by Alan Jones & Ray Hadley c/o radio 2UE/2GB. Interjections from Kyle & Jackie O. It's when they think we (and their sponsors) aren't listening that we get to hear what they really think.

WARNING: contains explicitly honest observations from (not to mention of) these moral troubadours of the AM band.

MAJOR COMBAT OPERATIONS (4:54) - DOWNLOAD MP3 (320kbps 11.3MB)

Oh mission accomplished you say? Hear the war that began after it "ended" as presented by the ABC, SBS, CNN, BBC & other acronym/news services - specially cut for the pill-popping masses on the dance floor.

Chorus: Dubya, War Crimes: US Marines Corp, Gratitude: John Howard,
Pelvic Thrusts: James Brown, Divine Blessing: God.

IMAGINE THIS (4:32) - DOWNLOAD MP3 (320kbps 10.4MB)

Imagine the world's most powerful baby boomer getting sentimental with the world's most revered peace anthem.

It's easy if you try...

Lyrics : John W Lennon, Vocals : George W Bush

NEW! : WATCH IMAGINE THIS - THE VIDEO (by Cal TV)    

*When burning a CD select "burn disc at once" to prevent any gaps between tracks.
The track sequence is designed to be heard without pause.

Composed & produced by Tom Compagnoni at Sunni Stronghold Studios for Firebrand Cleric Productions throughout 2004-2005

Audio data sourced, collated, edited, mixed, uranium enriched & sexed-up by Tom Compagnoni

Pre-emptive bass strikes : Benson Graham, Additional drum embedding : Hamish Ford, Collateral guitar damage and kinetically targeted percussion : Tom Compagnoni

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SAMPLES (AN INCOMPLETE GUIDE)

TRACK#1 - Alexander Downer Dateline Interview 2004, GWB/Howard (misc).

TRACK#2 - MOVIE TRAILERS: Commando, Clear & Present Danger, Exorcist - The Beginning, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Die Hard 2, Team America - World Police, Collateral Damage, OTHER: Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, US Marines in Iraq, Republican Party Campaign Advertisement 2004, Arnold Schwarzenegger Addressing Republican National Convention 2004, GWB with Andy Hiller 1999.

TRACK#3 - Lets Look Out For Australia TV Ad campaign 2002, Edwin Starr (War What is it Good For).

TRACK#4 - Alan Jones/Ray Hadley “blooper reels” courtesy of disgruntled former employees & the WWW.

TRACK#5 - GWB various, Sen. Zell Miller: "I say, bomb the hell out of them.", Mount Athos Monks (chanting), US Shock Jock (unknown), Bill O'Rielly "Shut up", McCarthy era TV propaganda, General George Patton speech 1944 "we're gonna cut out their living guts, PRO-WAR ROCKERZ: Sammy Hagar (VOA), S.O.D (Fuck the Middle East), Metallica (Don't Tread on Me), King Cobra (Iron Eagle), Clint Black (Iraq & I Roll).

TRACK#6 - TV NEWS: ABC, SBS, CNN, BBC etc, James Brown (Ugh!), GWB aboard USS Abraham Lincoln giving "Mission Accomplished" speech - May 2003, John Howard addressing GWB in Parliament.

TRACK#7 - John Lennon: interview 1970 - "Imagine" - "Give Peace a Chance", “Imagine” Karaoke version - Eva Cassidy version, Beatles misc. GWB misc.

"SECRET TRACK"#8 - Union strike rally Athens 2001 / Street drumming busker NYC (Thanks Hoppo).