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The third issue of a zine ("Samizdat #3) which a friend and I published last year has made it to the finals in the 'Golden Stapler Awards' in Australia!

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Samizdat #3: Mixtape (Side B)

MIX TAPE (SIDE B)

"It's pretty easy to do a reggae cover of a song I reckon. It doesn't take too much imagination to strum a guitar on the 2nd and 4th beats and put on a shitty Jamaican accent and pretend you're free-spirited and that you're cool with dirty hair. What takes balls is doing a reggae cover of a song and doing the original some justice, kicking some Rastafari pride into that mofo and taking it to town.
When pressed with the task of coming up with half-a-dozen or so good reggae covers, I found it difficult, to tell you the truth. Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of reggae and most of its manifestations, but a good deal of reggae cover versions just don't cut the grade. Firstly, the original song has to be able to stand up to the abuse put to it by reggae's sometimes foolhardy ways and then the cover version has to bring something new to the table, something unique.
The reggae cover is a fickle creature, it can produce amazing results (reggae made me enjoy a John Denver song) but can also fall to the dank depths of yuck (UB40's 'Can't Help Falling In Love'). My co-editor and I were in a band once which recorded a reggae version of a traditional Latvian folk song; we certainly thought we were being pretty cool, but I'd recommend you listen to these instead. -MM"

The Tennors - Weather Report (cover of Simon and Garfunkel's 'The Only Living Boy in New York')




Jackie Opel - You Send Me (Sam Cooke)




Easy Star All-Stars - Exit Music (For a Film) (feat. Sugar Min-not) (Radiohead)




Toots and the Maytals - Take Me Home, Country Roads (John Denver)




The Mighty Diamonds - Lay Lady Lay (Bob Dylan)




Tony Tribe - Red, Red Wine (Neil Diamond)




Blood Sisters - Ring My Bell (Anita Ward)




Easy Star All-Stars - Money (Pink Floyd)

Samizdat #3: Mixtape (Side A)

This is from the last (third) issue of our zine. My co-editor and I each came up with one side of a mix tape, his was folk-metal themed, and mine was reggae covers. Enjoy.

MIX TAPE (SIDE A)

"Making a mix tape of folk-metal is harder than I thought. Since the genre boomed in the 1990s, the folk music larder of almost every country has been ravaged by metal bands who were sick of hitting power chords and trying to come up with meaningful lyrics. Despite the stereotype, however, there is still a bunch of folk-metal bands throughout the world comprised of seriously talented musicians who are very much aware of their respective musical and cultural histories.
The following list could have stretched on and on, but I’ve tried to give you a small sample of bands who play some amazing music and a broad taste of the genre. It includes distorted pan pipes from Peru, lap-harps played like metal guitars from Latvia, pirate metal sea shanties from Scotland, hurdy-gurdys, mandolins, drums, flutes, bag-pipes, melodic harmonies and death growl battle screams.
Whilst I have to admit that I’m not the biggest fan of metal, there is something that definitely draws me to many of these songs. Perhaps it’s because lots of the melodies and instruments from which the songs are created have stood the test of time. In some cases, they’re songs that in one form or another have been played for many hundreds of years. So... revolutionary twist or sacrilegious rubbish? Look up some of these tracks on YouTube (they might not be at your local mu-sic shop!) and decide for yourself. - KS"

Heidevolk (Netherlands) - Het Gelders Volkslied




Ch’aska (Peru) - Nymph Of The Lake




Korpiklaani (Finland) - Tuli Kokko




Equilibrium (Germany) - Blut Im Auge




Månegarm (Sweden) — Hemfärd




Metsatöll (Estonia) — Ma Laulaks Seda Luguda




Eluveitie (Switzerland) - Uis Elveti




Alestorm (Scotland) — Keelhauled




Skyforger (Latvia) - Migla Migla, Rasa Rasa

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Samizdat Issue 3

Samizdat #3

Here's the third issue of a zine a friend and I occasionally publish. Read it in full-screen.

Samizdat Issue 3