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This is audio collage/media mix format psychedelic musical mix/journey into the world of pigs and songs and material all about pigs both as metaphor and actuality.
It is, in part, the distillation of many different shows that NCN has done in years past including 'The Coronavirus Show' (2020), 'If Pigs Could Fly' (about swine flu/H1N1) and 'Counting Sheep (and Pigs) from 2014 and material created specifically for this program.
This is also available in tracked form on Bandcamp (use BUY Link) and at archive.org as one file, in both places also in lossy, smaller size formats.
https://archive.org/details/ncn-the-psychedelic-pigs-show
DETAILS (POSSIBLE MIX SPOILERS AHEAD):
The exploratory background triad backbone of this mix is work by the industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails (NIN) (specifically the songs 'March of the Pigs' and 'Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)', as well as the progressive/psychedelic 70s band Pink Floyd (specifically their songs, 'Pigs on the Wing' Parts 1 & 2 and of course, the classic and the iconic 'Pigs' from their 1977 album 'Animals') and the rock/metal band Black Sabbath (specifically, their song 'War Pigs'). Many, many variants of all these songs (remixes, mashups, covers, parodies, live versions) run as intertwining leitmotifs through this encompassing NCN work along with other pig-oriented material, including...
Including the artistic conflation, as a running theme, of a political scandal that was sort of pre-echoed years earlier in a the first episode of the 'Black Mirror' TV series which had to do with the fictional terrorist kidnapping of a royal princess in the UK, who was threatened with death if the Prime Minister of the country did not have sex with a live pig, live on national television, before a specified time.
Strangely, years after this episode was aired, a real-life scandal in the UK did emerge called 'Pig-Gate' in which it was alleged that then-Prime Minister David Cameron was publicly humiliated when a story became viral that he had once had sex with the carcass of a dead pig back in his wild drinking college days. For more information on this scandal see the link below:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piggate
In addition to the triad of artists, mentioned above, there is a fourth 'adjunct' to this that sort of finds its exit point from all the 'piggishness'. This song is Queen's immortal 'Don't Stop Me Now' performed by Freddie Mercury and it is sort of matched here with NIN's 'Piggy (Nothing Can Stop Me Now)'. Many different variants are heard of this rousing Queen tune until it finally realizes its most climactic and dramatic form, ultimately, in the METAL version of the song. This is the crescendo climax of the entire NCN work.
DISCLAIMER:
Most of the individual pieces in this mix were painstakingly assembled by NCN over the course of several years and have never ever existed in this form before now, but most pieces, individually were not created by NCN but rather were created by various mainstream, underground, obscure, or DIY artists and are being used (fairly) in this mix. All derived material has been somehow transformed here or is being used as a cultural touchstone or reference. I will try to fill in the proper accreditation for these, over time. Tracks that are particularly derivative are not available separately from the entire work in the Bandcamp version. If anyone has any questions as to used source material please feel free to leave a comment on this item's page at archive.org. It is NCN's hope and intention that our use of these artists' work increases their scope and their audience and get them more attention. They deserve it.
NCN hopes you enjoy this newly released offering.
Happy Listening!
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