Why Chill Mafia is one of the most interesting works of recent times
Those of the Chill Mafia have gone through the game and you have understood nothing” have witnessed the appearance on Twitter of the songs Tu Kebapa and La Copla of the Normal Youth. Before understanding anything has come the timid and bustle, with a playback concert in EiTB, like those of the Scurvy.
The X Rebirth by Terror is the fourth mixtle of Chill Mafia Records. Tabako, Pepa Stepa and Young, Gifted & Basque (remembering Nina Simone) were published earlier. Although the above are close to the rag, this latest work has nothing to do with rag (except the metamusica proposed by Aitor Bizkarra). It is surprising that all the media thus call the work they have done. I have started to understand the motto “You have understood nothing.”
Formally, the work by Imorreta is important. Interarbitrary structures of songs, hybridization of styles, samples and a series of effects cooked at home. It is rupturistic, because it does not have direct aesthetic references in the Basque Country or in its immediate environment. And as if it were not enough, it is a breaker because it has become the non-hegemonic vasquity, a reflection of the reality of working-class neighborhoods.
Who sings about the point of view and everyday emergencies of a young man? Sex, drugs and the rock and-roll of the 80's are totally romantic, but we get upset if we listen to oral sex, MDMA, kale borroka and instagram ligote (at least in Basque). Young people are called nihilists, while older people are doing cross fit, yoga and mountain races and looking for “stability”. But unfortunately, we are all in the age of No Future, and the young female worker is not in the mouths of the interests and problems of the previous generation.
This is not about whether it is politically correct or not, but about the fact that we have so far put incredible vetoes on ourselves (and on our neighbours), always in the shadow of Christian morality. Remembering Banksy’s mural, art should alter those who are comfortable and comfort the agitated. There is the contribution of these young people from Rochapea.
The third point of reference is the collection of rich references used. In the interview conducted in the newly created media Klak.eus, the members of the group ask about Gabriel Aresti or Jon Mirande, which of the two prefer. They have doubted. They will forgive me, but which Basque artist is able to doubt between these two Basque cylindrical poets? What, moreover, is the Basque Country torpe, of the peripheral vascularity not homologated? In case this was not enough, and like the ones of Ez dok Amairu, the young people take references from Iparralde: The songs of Zuberoa, Erramun Martikorena and Maddi Oihenart have been sampleading at least since 2016.
Kattalin de J Martina, philosopher of Giorgio Agamben, passed the text What is contemporary, reflecting on the question “who sings to our century”: “To be contemporary means to return to the present in which we have never been”. Young people are always strangers in their village. They have to think and model their time. And we're fortunate, because we can breathe the air of the new generations. “Everything is dark looking to the future.”
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