KILLING IN THE NAME OF DURRR DURRR DURRRR

Earlier this week I posted video from an Ed Banger party in Melbourne where SebastiAn and Kavinsky play a remix of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name Of." According to the comments section, "It's a remix that SebastiAn apparently made in an hour or so on his laptop while in the hotel room." It's typical Ed Banger fare: the bass growls, the vocals distort, the whole thing buzzes and grinds almost to a halt only to build back up again and explode in noise.

I also noticed another, slightly more ominous comment, saying, "the only version of this track a dj should touch / better yet i hope its never released." This mildly foreboding comment made me think back to a story I heard last week from my dude Ned Hepburn aka the Nightfox. In his words:

i dj'd this house party last night and i started at about midnight. then i played 'Killing In The Name Of' to finish my set and the whole fucking room went apeshit. like TOTALLY FUCKING APESHIT. like smashing glasses and shit... a lot of friends of mine got beat the shit out of and the cops came and people got arrested n shit. everything. i was across the street at a friends by the time the cops came but fuuuuuck ive never seen such a fucking act like that.

So now I'm starting to think, what if this remix was released? I've gotten a number of comments already both on and offline. The kids in that video are going crazy. And now this tale of wanton outbreaks of destruction. What if hundreds of Ableton DJs across the world started ending all their sets with this? It'll most likely just plunge us further into the ongoing 90's revival. But could it go deeper? Could it be cheesy enough to be the end of this new electro, Ed Banger scene? Maybe the end of dance music as we know it, causing clubs and soundsystems to be banned for fear of this song and its results? It could be a siren to thousands of bro's and hipster wannabe 'eadbangin' bro's, alerting them to erupt in violence and riot around the globe. It could be the apocalypse as we know it, plunging us forever into eternal darkness and/or Mad Max-like scenarios. WATERWORLD!

And now I'm thinking that both the Ed Banger crew and the reunited RATM are playing at Coachella this weekend. Watch your back, desert motherfuckers.


Anyways, Ned has a new mix up for download, the title of which translates roughly to "fuck-pad." Get it in honor of his leaving Chicago and the dreadful Midwest once and for all. Chicago people check out the going away party on May 2nd.