Bastardwave by Buttress O'Kneel

be nice to people. don't be didactic. forgive people when they fuck up. try your best. admit it when you've made a bad decision. forgive yourself. try to be honest. try to be authentic. take time to know yourself. you don't own culture, culture owns you. don't view everything from a capitalist point of view. make art. dress however you want to dress. take precautions. practise what you preach. ditch fashions and cliques. no-one is worse than you. no-one is better than you. stop grasping for fame. you look fine. try not to support cruel industries. if you learn something you're doing is shit, try to stop doing it. forgive people when they offend you. say sorry when you offend others. don't be scared to be unique. you're allowed to enjoy pop music. you're allowed to enjoy silence. don't make assumptions. you're allowed to call people out, but don't be surprised if you get called out too. try not to live in fear. ditch genres, including the genres of biology that we call "genders" (you know the root word is the same?). wear that bikini. respect your elders. respect the youth. respect children. always ask consent. be patient and persistent. try not to compromise your core belief systems for momentary pleasures (including taste). never criticise someone else's clothing choices. laugh with kindness. appropriate constantly. try out new flavours and new words and new combinations of sounds. intellectual property is a con. don't let the coporations win. opt out of shit. try not to get so angry when someone else disagrees with you. try not to generalise. try to listen. become your own idol. invest in your own systems. change the world. don't beat yourself up for not changing the world. eat some fruit and vegetables. don't try to impress everyone. clean up now and then. don't pick on people who make different choices to you. be inclusive. everything is a grey area. remix everything. you don't need permission. smash the control machine. this is actually anarchy. try not to be just a consumer. feel free to make really bad art. mistakes are valuable. you are soul. brainwash yourself your own way. pat small things that are furry. watch bees. every now and then eat some fried dough. spend some time lost in thought. waste some of your time. no-one can tell you what to do with your own body. it's the only thing you really own. trust people, until they prove themselves untrustworthy, then never trust them again. it's okay to change your mind. stick an amen beat under something totally inappropriate. ruin stuff now and then. draw the wild card. you're all going to die. none of it matters. say what you have to say now while you can. accept the opinion of people who know more about shit than you do. remember the cameras are everywhere. try not to have secrets. if you can't handle the heat, stay out of the kitchen. don't go to that party if you don't want to. don't take the advice of sound-artists or culture-vandals. opt out of the consumer cycle. learn the song titles. enthuse. share that enthusiasm. drink enough water. don't worry about fear - we all feel fear. no-one knows what they are doing. don't do drugs, unless you want to. respect your parents, unless they were shit. don't do anything you don't want to do, unless it's stuff you really should do. be open to learning new shit. protect yourself. look people in the eye every now and then. keep generating culture. buy music directly from the artist. come up with your own constellations.

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“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!”
- Music 4 Maniacs