Are the Chemical Brothers Creative Commons nerds?
Well obviously they’re nerds - they’re dance music DJs, one the cooler professional nerd occupations. The question is, however, are they Creative Commons nerds? A track on their new album We Are The Night called, oddly enough, All Rights Reversed, seems to suggest so…
Heaven’s down
And Hell is up
All rights reversed
undertaking copyleft we’re flying sideways
They seem quite bullish over the whole thing too. The chorus:
It never stops
and no one’s stopping
It never stops
and no one’s stopping.
So will Ed and Tom start hanging out with the Boingboing gents? Will the Brothers Chemical end their next album with a hidden unicorn chaser? And where can we get the Logic files for our own mixes, oh-new-Creative-Commons-overlords? Listen for yourself and decide.
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September 26th, 2007 00:15
Some piece of the lyric comes from the 13th page of “Principia Discordia”, a discordian book.
This song is featured by Klaxons.
Discordianism is a modern “parody religion”, and, Klaxons are discordians.
There are words in this text that are used by the open source community but this religion started in 1958.
You can find “principia discordia” on google.
There is the book around the web.
Here is some pieces of page 13:
Heaven is down. Hell is up.
This is proven by the fact
that the planets and stars
are orderly in their
movements,
while down on earth
we come close to the
primal chaos.
There are four other
proofs,
but I forget them.