blatant propaganda news:

September 2001: EYE's "Detention without Trial" song (see next news blurb) receives lots of airplay on radio and at rallies.

EYE's song "[Refugees] Detention without Trial" is receiving regular airplay on several dozen radio stations around Australia. It has been broadcast on several nationally syndicated shows (to over 100 radio stations) as well broadcasts at several of the recent Refugee Action Committee (RAC) rallies in Canberra (which have regularly attracted over 500 people). Copies of a special 6-track CDr have been made available to the RAC to help raise some funds for their campaign. Alternatively, you can download the MP3 for free from http://www.mp3.com.au/eye

August 2001: "[ REFUGEES ] Detention without Trial" ... a new EYE CDr e.p. and free MP3.

EYE has released a new 4-track CDr E.P. titled "[ Refugees E.P.] Detention without Trial" (BPCD008). Promotional copies have been sent to about 40 Community Radio stations around Australia as well as several dozen university student newspapers.

The tracklist is:
1/. Intro: Welcome to Australia 00:53
2/. Detention Without Trial 03:05 free MP3 Download
3/. Community Announcement for the Refugee Action Committee 01:24
4/. Action = Life (demo mix 1996) 03:15.

"Detention without Trial" is the main track. It features EYE doing something quite different to anything previous. This is more of a power pop punk rock guitar-driven type track, somewhat like early 80s Midnight Oil or the Clash perhaps. Though it is still characteristic of EYE and full of EYE's driving energy. You can now download the MP3 or Windows Media file for free at: http://www.mp3.com.au/eye

The overall aim is to raise awareness about the Refugee Action Committee and to expose the persecution of refugees by the Australian government and commercial media.

August 2001: new Organarchy Sound Systems compilation CD!

Organarchy Sound Systems, the collective of East-coast Australian cyber-electronica-anarchists has released a new CD called "Beatwork Volume 2". It features 16 artists spanning over an hour of underground drumNbass, hip hop and acid breakbeats with lots of right-on political content to boot. ELF is featured with the blistering sample-heavy acid drumNbass track "Psychological Warfare (EYE's chopper mix)" and EYE with the propaganda soundscape "Uranium" which is a retitled piece from the "Politics.. Vol.1" CD about the corporate greed and stupidity of in-situ leach mining of uranium in South Australia. For more info about this CD, and to grab a copy visit the Organarchy Sound Systems web-site. Or, if you are an interested radio DJ, music press author etc. e-mail us as we have some free promos to give away.

August 2001: 45+ new music reviews added.

Finally, we have been able to HTML and upload many of the music reviews that we wrote over the past 12 months or so. Apologies to the artists for taking so long in some cases! The last year has been very hectic. There are more reviews to come.

June 2001: Refugee Action Committee:

To learn about the appaulling conditions in which refugees (asylum seekers) live in when they arrive in Australia, visit the web-site of the Refugee Action Committee at http://www.refugeeaction.org The government and the media have been waging an abhorrent and somewhat racist propaganda campaign of scapegoating asylum seekers. The most frightening thing, is that this one-sided propaganda seems to be working on many Australians; they see rioting refugees on the biased t.v. coverage and don't think to ask "What is being done to them to make them so desperate?" If you want to know why the refugees are going on hunger strikes, "rioting" in the detention camps and why the detention centres have been labelled concentration camps by many human rights bodies, then visit the site. Also, to get a quick overview of the refugees side of the story, you can download the PDF leaflet "Case for Freeing the Refugees"

June 2001: Seeking submissions for an Australian Industrial(ish) compilation:

We are now seeking submissions from Australian industrial, heavy electronica, e.b.m., heavy drum N bass, and noise artists for a compilation CD. Blatant Propaganda is releasing this CD in association with the Community Broadcasting Association of Australia (CBAA) and Community Radio 2XX Canberra. CBAA will send copies of the CD to the approximately 250-300 Community Radio stations across Australia. We will send it to selected music press and arrange mass giveaways in nightclubs in every major city. The main aim of this CD is to get the relatively unkown but great music of Australia's numerous projects in these genres into the hands and ears of the public. For more detailed information, click here. Submission deadline is January 31 2001.

April 2001: ELF played on national Radio JJJ Sat. 14th April 2001:

By complete chance we tuned in to the Australian government's national youth radio station, JJJ, on saturday night and heard the ELF track "Echelon" played during the prime-time dance music mix up session. This was particularly great as JJJ has ignored our releases in the past (well, EYE, at least,which was considered too controversial) and because the ELF track has only been released on CDr to a few fortunate souls! It turns out it was during a DJ session of DJ Michael MD (thanks Michael!)

April 2001: EYE tops the 30th compilation CD mark:

In April 2001, the number of compilations that EYE has released tracks on topped the 30 mark.

March 2001: Many more EYE & ELF MP3s added for FREE download:

There are now over 20 EYE MP3s, ranging from industrial to noise to drum & bass to gothic-rock care-of: mp3.com/eye Similarly, more ELF MP3 tracks of acid-electro-drum&bass have been added to mp3.com/elf

January 2001: Even newer looking Blatant Propaganda:

This monster website (over 400 pages) is currently a major reconstruction zone. So don't be surprised if you come across some very different looks on various pages. Please forgive any broken links or images. If you find some, please e-mail to let us know what and where it is! New EYE and ELF web-sites have been installed. As for the B.P. pages, they will gradually evolve to look more like the "shop" page. We aim to get rid of as many black backgrounds as possible and implement CSS for styling. Apart from all that, both EYE and ELF have been busy recording.

December 2000: Coming Soon: The "Blatant Electronica" double CD:

Blatant Propaganda will release a double CD compilation in Spring (Sept-Nov) 2001 called "Blatant Electronica". This has over 140 minutes of doof, electro, trance, acid, house, drum&bass, industrial-techno, big-beat and dark ambient. It will only cost around $10 Australian (circa $7. U.S.) The track list is finalised. The CD is waiting on a few artist's details for the jacket, to be pressed and for warmer weather to launch it in!

New ELF CD:

On July 1, The ELF (aka. Earth Liberation Front) very quietly released a new CD called "Preview". It contains over 45 minutes of eclectic electro-drum&bass-acid-industrial-trance audio, costs a mere $5.99 US (= about $10 Australian), has MP3s of all tracks and is available on-line from mp3.com/elf added. You can also buy it via mail order - via the "shop" link above. (10-July-2000)

New EYE CD:

In early May 2000, EYE very quietly released a new CD called "Propaganda (is Sexy)". It contains over 40 minutes of industrial-acid audio, costs a mere $5.99 US (= about $10 Australian), has MP3s of all tracks and is available on-line from mp3.com/eye You can also buy it via mail order - via the "shop" link above. added (07-May-00)

EYE video on-line:

You can now see the video to EYE's song "Mandate!" at: http://www.2hot2dance.com/stuff/video.html On the page that opens, scroll down & click either the little orange or green box next to "EYE".

EYE interview for national T.V. music show "Alchemy":

It was just learnt that the long-awaited interview with J. Citizen of EYE, recorded in December 1999 (see below), is not going to be screened on SBS-TVs "Alchemy" music show. Apparently, their trainee audio person totally stuffed up the interviews with several artists from Canberra. Oh well. At least they screened the video to "Mandate!" The interview was recorded in the Room 101 studio, with J. Citizen sporting a John Howard mask. It would have been quite a memorable moment in Australian TV history, and reached out to tens of thousands of new people, potentially hundreds of thousands.... oh well!

FREE elf & EYE MP3s:

Check out the following web-sites to pirate many EYE and elf tracks. It would be very nice if you bought the CDs though too! :-)

EYE:
mp3.com/eye (about 15 tracks) & more tracks at:
www.mp3.com.au/eye

elf:
mp3.com/elf (around 8 tracks) & more at www.mp3.com.au/elf

EYE tops 20 compilation CD mark:

In April 2000, the number of compilation CDs that EYE has released tracks on topped the 20 mark. (added 01-May-00)

EYE MP3s:

You can now download the free MP3 of "Mandate!" at www.mp3.com.au/eye

Thank-you to everyone who helped it to chart at No. 1 in the industrial charts for over two months, No.7 in the Dance charts and No.12 in the Overall charts. (added 27-March-00)

More EYE radio interviews:

On a short trip to Sydney in March, J. Citizen was interviewed on Radio stations 2SER-FM and Eastside Radio. This brought the number of EYE radio interviews, since the release of the "Politics can be fun - volume 1" CD, to 15.(20-March-00)

EYE video screened on 2 national Australian T.V. shows

The Video to EYE's song "Mandate!" was first screened on Australian national T.V. on March 3 on ABC-TVs "Rage" program. It was also screened nationally a few weeks later on SBS-TVs electronic music program "Alchemy" (25-3-00)

New reviews in Blatant Propaganda zine:

New reviews of many CDs added to the list. See the '"Music Reviews" section via the link above.

EYE interviewed for national T.V. music show "Alchemy":

On 12 December, J. Citizen of EYE was interviewed for the TV show "Alchemy" which screens across Australia on SBS-TV. J. Citizen was interviewed in the Room 101 studio, wearing a John Howard Mask (For oversease folk, John Howard is Australia's present ultra-conservative Prime Minister). (13-12-99)

EYE press release:

EYE threatened with arrest during video shoot.

In 1999 "aya" changed name to become
"The ELF".

This news page was commenced in December 1999 & thus excludes the many thrilling newsworthy events that date prior to that.