Ultra-Red Amnistia!
Amnistia!, Ultra-Red’s recording of an NYC rally for undocumented immigrant workers’ amnesty on May Day […]
Amnistia!, Ultra-Red’s recording of an NYC rally for undocumented immigrant workers’ amnesty on May Day 2000, is more likely to be enjoyed by noise fetishists than the blue-collar proletariat. However, it’s still dazzling for reproducing the same intensity that arises between street protestors and riot police. Amnistia (“por Nueva York)” recalls the ambient-Marxists’ Seattle WTO protest mixes, with its microhouse concoction of clicked beats, DSP scrapes and crowd chants. The vibe then darkens with collages of rally speeches that arise from a murk of feedback drones. Overall, UltraRred presents the event as a hallucination rather than a journalistic dispatch.