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Panorama
Album:
Nova akropola
(English)
Both those in the East and those in the West
should be clear with the fact that we are not
moving away from the road that we beat the path
for in 48. That is to say we have our own way,
we always say what is right on this side and
what is not, and what is right on the other side
and what is not.
It should be clear to everyone that we cannot
be no ones appendage of nobody's politics, that
we have our own point of view and that we know
the worth of what is right and what is not right.
Perspektive
Album:
Rekapitulacija 1980
(Perspektiven
/ Perspectives)
[Spoken in English:]
Laibach takes over an organisational system of work, after the model of
industrial production and totalitarism, collective spirit, identification
with ideology, which means: not the individual, but the organisation
speaks. Our work is industrial, our language political. Laibach is a
recognition of time universality. Its organisational activity is an
intense agitation and a constant systematic propagating, ideological
offensive. Any social activity affects the mass. Laibach functions as a
creative allusion of strict institutionality, identification with
institution, as stock theatre, or popular culture with a centralized
programme. One transmitter and a multitude of receivers, and with a
communication through uncommunication. Laibach's musical approach is a
move to the area of pure politization of sounds as a means of manipulating
the masses. When, in politically and economically complicated situations,
the antagonism in society is becoming strained, only force remains as the
ultima ratio of social integration. The force must adopt the form of
systematic, physical and psychic terror, organized in accordance with
social relations. Terror is obtaining a function of productional power,
which extorts discipline and an adaptation of the mass, to the existing
productional relations, and the existing productional apparatus. For the
totalitarian form of government, the systematic terror becomes a
constitutional instrument of authority. Through the mystic,
erotic-mythological sound, constitution of an ambivalence between fear and
fascination, which rudimentarily affects the consciousness of people,
through stage performances of ritualized demonstration of political power,
and through other manipulative means of an individual, Laibach practises a
sound force, in a form of systematic, psycho-physical terror as social
organisational principle, in order to effectively discipline and raise a
feeling of total adherence bond of a certain, revolted and alienated
audience, which results in a state of collective [athasia?], which is the
principle of social organisation. In this sense, the function of Laibach,
sound constructions, and of rock concerts is to challenge collective
emotions and automatic associations, and as such it serves as the means of
working stimulation. By darkening the consumer's mind, it drives him into
a state of humble contrition and total obedience, self-sacrifice, by
destroying every trait of individuality, it melts the individuals into a
mass, and mass into a humble, collective body. The dualism of Laibach's
message, perception and receiver's structure uncovers the social neurosis.
Laibach unites the biters and antagonistics into an expression of static,
totalitarism cry. Our basic inspiration, ideals which are not ideals to
their form, but the material of Laibach, manipulation of self, remains an
industrial production: art of the Third Reich, totalitarism, taylorism,
bruitism, disco. Disco rhythm, as a regular repetition, is the purest, the
most radical form of the militantly organised rhythmicity of technicist
production, and as such the most appropriate means of media manipulation.
As an archetypal structural basis of the collective unconscious in a
worker mass, it stimulates automatic mechanism, and shapes
industrialisation of consciousness, which is necessary in the logic of
massive, totalitarian, industrial production.
[I had to write this one down by ear... Took me hours.]
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Regime
of Coincidence, State of Gravity
Album: kapital
You're
standing back.
What's wrong?
Eye contact... A trip, something is touching?
What's wrong?
Eye contact... nothing like it, nothing like it
What's wrong?
Eye contact... hold it right here, this is crazy.
What's wrong?
Back off for a second, just back off.
My heart restriction
Take hesitation
Yes, fine.
Take hesitation
I'm thinking after seeing you... excellent.
Take hesitation
Very good.
Take hesitation
My dime is yours.
I need...
I need something stronger.
Take four red capsules, in ten minutes take two more. What's wrong?
What's wrong? Take hesitation.
I need something stronger.
Take four red capsules,
I need something stronger.
Could you be more... specific?
Our voices are not raised in any harmonious chorus
One idea...
Our voices are not raised in any harmonious chorus
But our differences are differences of empathy!
We need a new unity!
We must first...
One idea to get us out of here!
We must first...
We need a new unity!
We must first choose a leader.
We need a new unity!
Could you be more...
We need a new unity!
Could you be more...
We must first choose a leader.
Could you be more...
We must first choose a leader.
Could you be more... specific?
Sila
Album:
Rekapitulacija 1980
Macht
C'ez nas viharji divjajo.
Stuerme wueten ueber uns,
Mesta gorijo in telesa.
es brennen Staedte und Menschenkoerper!
Slast nas stresa
Lust durchstroemt uns.
Spet se c'es polja
Ueber die Fluren lautet
glasijo zvoki nas'e govorice,
der Klang unserer Worte wider,
ki nam molitev je in vrisk.
die uns Gebet und Jauchzen sind.
Ne, ne dopusti vec', vesoljni bog, O allmaechtiger Gott,
lass
da bi nas'a sila potonila,
unsere Kraft nie mehr schwinden,
saj je tako brezmejno sladka, mila... denn sie ist so unendlich suess
und lieb...
SLAST NAS STRESA!
LUST DURCHSTROEMT UNS!
(Power
Storms rage over us,
cities and human bodies are burning.
Lust flows through us.
Over the land the sound
of our words rings out,
that are to us prayer and exultation. [Not 100% sure about this verse.]
O almighty God, never let
our power fail again,
for it is so endlessly sweet and dear...
LUST FLOWS THROUGH US!)
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