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[Balor/SS1535]

A guy revealed this info on here already a few months ago, but I guess no one is too interested unless a big name "calls them out."

[post-morten]

A guy revealed this info on here already a few months ago, but I guess no one is too interested unless a big name "calls them out."

Respect to Xiu Xiu for calling out this scam. Hopefully it'll catch some more wind now than when some random dude on an anonymous board did it.

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I do wonder would it make sense to call it scam, as I assume the scam would mean he actually convinced someone and there really were people who checked out his music with desire to get some african industrial? I would think man simply was influenced by texts GO published as descriptions of their albums. Putting some sort of context to the mood of sound, as opposed of thinking anyone actually believes is a fact, hah...

Extreme music from africa. heh..

I think Xiu Xiu statement was ultra lame. Like so lame and scripted contemporary BS, that it seemed more of parody, than real. Target audience of such thing, and as method of creating clicks and promotion, I guess it works for that purpose exactly.

[Moran]

I don't think this is less okay than other provocative performances. Xiu Xiu's statement is status quo pearl clutching.

[Stipsi]

I do wonder would it make sense to call it scam, as I assume the scam would mean he actually convinced someone and there really were people who checked out his music with desire to get some african industrial? I would think man simply was influenced by texts GO published as descriptions of their albums. Putting some sort of context to the mood of sound, as opposed of thinking anyone actually believes is a fact, hah...

Extreme music from africa. heh..

I think Xiu Xiu statement was ultra lame. Like so lame and scripted contemporary BS, that it seemed more of parody, than real. Target audience of such thing, and as method of creating clicks and promotion, I guess it works for that purpose exactly.

I'm not sure is a parody...

[FreakAnimalFinland]

I know.
AIW appears as currently popular (in almost any music style) cos-play approach. Someone being outraged that man is not African, seems like someone being upset that dude in batman costume wasn't really batman?

However if someone would say French man has no business dealing with Angola as he has no connection to it, ah please. I guess it could display ignorance of not even knowing nor caring whatsoever how someone from France may have even personal ties to this history? I would not be surprised. When Xiu Xiu probably would have had possibility to discuss with artists or find out some angles they didn't possibly even know, the bitch move is to go online to do rage baiting nonsense. Some hailed them as having courage and doing important work. To me it appeared as total cowardice and endorsing the most disgusting online brain cancer culture.

[Leewar]

Coming soon - outrage as black metal band are discovered to not actually be satanists.

[Balor/SS1535]

A guy revealed this info on here already a few months ago, but I guess no one is too interested unless a big name "calls them out."

Respect to Xiu Xiu for calling out this scam. Hopefully it'll catch some more wind now than when some random dude on an anonymous board did it.

ha---Over a year before all this!

[Cranial Blast]

I don't know much about this project at all, but from reading some of the posts, it kind of makes me think of Dave Chappelle's comedy skit about blind black man/white supremacist, haha.

[Kaaoskultti]

If it depends on me, I'd definitely listen to a project named Asian Gestapo. I mean, Xiu Xiu is great and all, but damn how boring these angstridden redditish statements sound like.

[SIEGSIEGSIEG]

If you replace "African" with "Sámi people" and reverse some colors one can truly see the absurdity of this whole charade:

"Sámi Imperial Wizard is a middle aged black man. We had the extreme displeasure of playing with him last night not knowing who he was until he came back stage and, to our shock, took off his hood. The Imperial Wizard (which is a term for a "Ku Klux Klan" leader) obscures his black identity to the extent that he even wears gloves to cover his hands all while projecting a pastiche of white Sámi "tribal" imagery on screen. He also claims to be part of an imagined pan Sámi armed struggle and calls for his Sámi brothers to join together to play on his records. These records are actually just made with Ableton samples. In the great and horrible tradition of Finnish music, he is taking the art and lives of Sámi people and crazily perverting them for his own bizarre edification and profit. This is extreme white face and a profound level of racist appropriation. Would you see, book or listen to a band of black men called Asian Gestapo?"

One can ponder if such statement would be met with applause or the americans would perceive Sámi people just "white" and then rally behind the misunderstood artist hmm? I hope Harsh Ways Fest books him or something. XE/African Imperial Wizard split when?