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Squat

from Live At CBGB'S by Illtet

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With a definite Chicago industrial music (Wax Trax/Ministry) influence, the main rhythm on Squat uses a sample of a record player stopping assembled in a rhythmic pattern popularized by the dancehall of the time.

The gun shot as a musical device was probably inspired by hip-hop and the lyrics made reference to the political movement that was happening in the Lower East Side in the 1980s, advocating violent revolution and an anarchistic approach to property - "property is theft" - that was represented by the squatters movement in which abandoned and largely bank or developer-owned buildings were re-claimed by activists who took up residence and renovated the buildings, sometimes resisting the police who came to "brick them up" with doors booby-trapped with piss buckets and thrown bricks.

The struggles and aspirations of the squatter community is well-documented in Seth Tobocman's book, You Don't Have to Fuck People over to Survive.

Guitar riffs for Squat were written by Patrick Taps Guden, originally for an Arrogant Response song called Spoon.

-Mike iLL

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from Live At CBGB'S, released January 12, 2013
Boo Reiners: Guitar, Vocals, Banjo
Claudio "killaudio" DiZefalo: Samples, Percussion, Vocal
Mike Mitolo A.K.A. "Pervis": Drums
Mike Ill: Electric Bass, Vocal
Emilio "ZefNoise" China: Lead Vocal, Electric Violin, Guitar

Basics recorded at CBGB'S, NYC, Friday night 6/9/95
Engineer: Joe Marno
Assistant: Hank Fury
Crew: Evan Wolf, Jonathan Ballard

Overdubs; Water Music, Hoboken, NJ
Engineer: John Sowle

Mix: Sound On Sound, NYC
Mixed by John Siket
Assistant: Susie Hollander

Mastered by Scott Anthony at The Viewing Room

Cover Art: Seth Tobocman
Design: Deborah Allen

Produced by Mark Wilson and Calvin Gaines
Additional production: Mike Ill and Zef Noi$e
Executive producers: Boo Reiners, Zef Noi$e, Mike Ill

Special Thanks to Hilly Kristal and Louise Parnassa

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