"You are not born dangerous class. You become so the moment you cease to acknowledge the values and constraints of a world from which you have broken free: the necessity of wage-labour."
--Alice Becker-Ho
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The Dangerous Class is the new album by End. Five years in the making, it is 17 tracks of audio madness bound together by themes of sex, drugs, and rebellion. A wild mix of live instrumentation, programmed electronics, and collaged sample fragments, The Dangerous Class is the soundtrack to a world of wayward youth given to deviance, chemical transcendence and violent transgression.
If there was ever a point that the Communists and the Capitalists could agree on, it was that The Dangerous Class -- the Lumpenproletariat -- was of no use to the future. Criminals, petty con-men, social parasites and hooligans, they deserved only dismissal or imprisonment. An unfortunate remnant of the past order to be swept away in the forward march of history. But of course, now -- as those two great behemoths of the 20th century have become almost indistinguishable from each other -- we are all, increasingly, become criminals. You are a criminal when you download music. You are a criminal when you ingest forbidden substances. You are a criminal when you try to do anything other than the expressly permitted. And you are a criminal when you protest this very order. In the new world, we are all Lumpenproles.
The Dangerous Class is stitched together from the detritus of a century of recorded music, rampaging its way through countless sounds and styles -- one moment it is double-time drums accompanying glitched-out rockabilly, the next swinging jazz scat overtop dirty, blown-out synths. Almost no musical genre is left unexplored -- surf, garage rock, speed metal, big band horn numbers, speak-easy jazz, techno thumpers, organ dirges, chamber music, Bollywood sitar psychedelia, string ensembles, groovy lounge pieces and more. All of it woven into catchy pop-tunes where sunshine-voiced singers belt out infectious melodies while craggy old voices weave a narrative of decadence and forbidden pleasures.
1. Theme From The Sick Generation
2. Jailbait Rock
3. Living In A Monochromatic World
4. LSD Made A Wreck Of Me
5. The Sadist
6. Misspent Youth
7. Pills To Make You Fun
8. A Fistful Of Matches
9. The Wretched Of The Earth
10. A Long Time Dying
11. My Hippy Sex Cult
12. A Rebel From The Waist Down
13. Bad Girls Go To Hell
14. A Side Of Dirty
15. Everything In Excess
16. Dance Of The Lumpenproles
17. The Dangerous Class
Released 2009 on Hymen Records
Note: Due to an unfortunate mishap at the pressing plant the above tracklisting -- while preferred for optimum listening effectiveness -- does not correspond to the tracks on the cd. On the cd, the tracklisting is:
1. Theme From The Sick Generation
2. Jailbait Rock
3. Living In A Monochromatic World
4. LSD Made A Wreck Of Me
5. Pills To Make You Fun
6. Bad Girls Go To Hell
7. A Side Of Dirty
8. Everything In Excess
9. The Sadist
10. Misspent Youth
11. A Fistful Of Matches
12. The Wretched Of The Earth
13. A Long Time Dying
14. My Hippy Sex Cult
15. A Rebel From The Waist Down
16. Dance Of The Lumpenproles
17. The Dangerous Class
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