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UPDATE: As the change is now in force for some users, I have switched the navigation to the simplified one for the new system. Please check Navigation in the Help section if you can't find things. I also initially made small adjustments to the front page layout, but have now reverted to the old look until all users are on the new system.

COUNTDOWN: Just a reminder for people still using Monaco that the final switch to the new skin is due on Nov. 3. After that, it will no longer be offered as an option. Sorry. Nothing to do with me.

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Beatnigs

The Beatnigs were an American, San Francisco-based band between 1986 and 1990, which combined hardcore punk, industrial and hip hop influences, described as "a kind of avant-garde industrial jazz poets collective". The band was the initial collaboration of Michael Franti and Rono Tse, who would later form The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, and Kevin Carnes who would later form Broun Fellinis. 

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Peel played some tracks from the group's album and invited the band to do a session for his show in 1988, which they did. Two members of the group later formed The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, whose music was also played by Peel and listeners of the show voted their track Television (The Drug Of A Nation), originally a Beatnigs tune, at number 38 in the 1992 Festive Fifty.

Sessions[]

The_beatnigs_-_fight_fire_with_fire_-_peel_session_1988

The beatnigs - fight fire with fire - peel session 1988

1. Recorded: 1988-12-04. First Broadcast: 07 December 1988. Repeated: 03 January 1989

  • Suffering / The Statement On Built In Obsolescence / The Mash / Fight Fire With Water

Other Shows Played[]

1988
The_Beatnigs_-_Television

The Beatnigs - Television

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