A estos dos hermanos de 2ManyDj’s - integrantes de Soulwax - los conocía desde hace bastantes años (creo que quien me los introdujo fue Menen después de su viaje a Ibiza) y ya me gustaban bastante, pero fue en el WeekendDanceFestival de este año donde me cautivaron. Desde ese momento los escucho muchísimo más y poco a poco me voy haciendo con los discos de su discografía que me faltan por tener.

Hasta el momento y partiendo de la base que todos son buenísimos, el que más me gusta es As Heard on Radio Soulwax Pt. 3. Uno de los motivos principales es su comienzo: ¿A quién se le habría ocurrido comenzar con la espectacular frase - o monólogo, más bien - de Peter Finch’s Network para continuar con Van Halen y seguidamente Daft Punk si no es a ellos? Sencillamente genial.

No puedo ponerlo para que lo oigais debido a su excesivo tamaño, pero como compensación he aquí el speech que se escucha de Network que no tiene desperdicio (al igual que la película):

I don’t have to tell you things are bad, everybody knows things are bad. It’s a depression. Everybody’s out of work or scared of losing their jobs. A dollar is worth a nickel. Banks are going bust. Shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the streets and there’s nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do about it. And there’s no end to it. We know that the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. We sit watching the TV while some local newscaster tells us that today we had 15 homicides and 63 violent crimes. As if that’s the way things are supposed to be. We know things are bad, worse than bad. They’re crazy. It’s like everything, everywhere is going crazy so we don’t go out any more. We sit in the house and slowly the world we live in is getting smaller and all we have to say is ‘Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won’t say anything. Just leave us alone.’ Well, I’m not going to leave you alone. I want you to get mad. I don’t want you to protest. I don’t want you to riot. I don’t want you to write your congressman because I wouldn’t know what to tell you to write. I don’t know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the streets. All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say, ‘I’m a human being, GOD DAMN IT! My life has value’…So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window and open it and stick your head out and yell, ‘I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more’.

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