"The Shizit are no longer the sound of the revolution's bloody riots, but the reasoning behind it." - Rockmidgets.com
Album being hosted on archive.org Here: http://www.archive.org/download/Dtrash138-TheShizit-TheShizit/dtrash138-theshizit.rar
CHECK OUT FAQ BLOG. Shizit. New. Free. Download it ( will be up around 10/17/2009). Share it. Released under Creative Commons license. This is the first release by The Shizit in over 8 years (the last being Soundtrack for the Revolution, available at http://www.theshizit.net/ - that release and that website HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH JP. theshizit.net is run by Jackson Presley, who put out Soundtrack for the Revolution on his own indie label back in '01. He is a good guy and my friend. I do not receive any royalties from those sales.). Here's a little history: I started writing and recording shizit songs in '98, being very influenced at the time by ATR, Prodigy, and shitty nu-metal like Korn and the Deftones. I was young, not very well organized, and pretty under confident in myself. I felt like I needed a"bandmate". So I put out an ad in the local newspaper for a guitar player (my idea was that the live show would just be two guys, me on vox and turntables and a guitar player). This is how I met Brian, who would become my band mate and friend. We worked out a system, a division of labor, if you will. I wrote and recorded all the material, he maintained the website, did graphic design, and played guitar on the recordings and live. He also put the tracks up on mp3.com (I didn't even know what an mp3 was at the time). I came up with this horrible name, the over all brand (like the emoticon angry face), and the politics. I made the decision to share half of the creative credit with Brian. I think I did this for two reasons: 1. I was scared to claim responsibility for the music; the production wasn't very good and I felt like people would like it more if they saw it as a "band", like how NIN did it (cut me slack here, I was really young and not a together dude at the time). The other reason was that I had egalitarian ideals, I wanted everything to be happy and cuddly. I wanted to compensate Brian for his hard work (he worked his ass off on that website, at shows, and he also did write one really great riff for the track Spit AK, he deserves proper credit), I didn't want to be petty and carve up every little section of the Shizit into ownership. Here is where we get to the problem. So now I've told the world that two people are responsible for this music hen only one really was. It worked for a while, but soon Brian and I started having some conflicts, which erupted on the tour we did with Alec Empire in the UK in '02. When we got back to the states I decided I didn't want to work with him anymore. But I had split the credit and the "ownership" of the shizit down the middle. So I let it go. I tried to end the relationship nicely (which of course backfired) and Brian and I have not spoke since. I do not paint myself as the good guy here. There is no good guy. Things just got fucked up. I started recording Rabbit Junk in '03 and basically entered into what I now see as a 7 year long depression. Rabbit Junk never really had a solid identity, which reflected my personal life. I worked at a homeless shelter for most of those years and was pretty miserable over all. The specter of The Shizit continued to haunt me. I was so fucking angry about how it all had fallen apart. I realized this wasn't something I could just let go. The Shizit was part of me, and I had been denying that part of myself. I needed to record and release another shizit album. And I had to make it a NO profit venture. It was a mistake to ever try and exploit the shizit for money. In releasing this record, I hope I can heal, move on, reclaim myself, and do right by myself. I made a big mistake in how I handled the shizit before, this is my attempt to put things right. Some people might try and say it's not the real shizit, or maybe Brian will try and sue me (or maybe he doesn't give a fuck anymore, I have no idea). Whatever. This IS the real shizit. This is more real than it ever was. This is anger and pain and open wounds. This is one more voice in the chorus of outrage that reverberates in the souls of every human being forced to adapt to the dehumanizing system of capitalism. It is not perfect, it is not free of hypocrisy, it is not above criticism, but the shizit is my truth and I needed to tell it. So fuck binaries, fuck the comparative norm, fuck the categories, fuck perpetual growth, fuck the cage, fuck the comfort, fuck the fear, fuck control, fuck the wage system, fuck the racism, fuck the patriarchy, fuck the divisions, fuck the positions, fuck the gender roles, fuck class, fuck prisons, fuck war, FUCK OPPRESSION! THIS IS THE SHIZIT!
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