LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Love
Music Hate Racism) - Love
Music Hate Racism join up with NME and NUT in response to BNP recruiting outside schools in the UK with exclusive double album.
Anti-racist campaign Love Music Hate Racism next week launch their biggest initiative to date -an exciting 29-track double CD.
The project was initiated following reports from Channel 4, among others, of record levels of racism in UK schools and reports of the fascist British National Party (BNP) attempting to recruit school students to their campaign of hate by handing out free racist music CDs at school gates.
The CDs feature a unique and diverse group of artists, many of whom have contributed rare, exclusive, specially written tracks and exclusive remixes. Please see below quotes from most of the artist involved, the full tracklisting is:
Disk One
1. The Enemy Fear Killed The Youth Of Our Nation (rare b.side)
2. Lethal Bizzle Babylon's Burning The Ghetto (new single)
3. Roll Deep Racist People (specially recorded)
4. Helsinki Ampersand (specially recorded)
5. The View Fireworks & Flowers (unreleased song)
6. Hard Fi We Need Love (exclusive remix)
7. MIA Hussel (from the album 'Kala')
8. Bloc Party vs. Diplo Where Is Home? (exclusive remix)
9. Carbon / Silicon The Network's Going Down (exclusive recording)
10. Natty If I... (exclusive recording)
11. Babyshamblkes Stone Me - What A Life! (B.side of 'Delivery')
12. Get Cape. Wear Cap. Fly If I Could Build You A Tower (specially recorded)
13. The Charlatans Blank Heart, Blank Mind (specially written and recorded)
14. Dirty Pretty Things 9Lives (specially written and recorded)
15. Albert Hammond Jr. Cartoon Music For Superheroes (From the album 'Yours To Keep')
Disk Two
1. Blood Red Shoes Can't Find The Door 9 (exclusive version)
2. Manu Chao Tristeza Maleza (exclusive live version)
3. Mecca 2 Medina Who The Cap Fits
4. Akala Electro Livin'
5. Nine Black Alps Burn Faster
6. Biffy Clyro Love Has A Diameter
7. New Young Pony Club Ice Cream
8. Billy Bragg The Big Lie (exclusive track)
9. Maximo Park Nosebleed (exclusive live version)
10. Statik Summer Nights
11. Fionn Reagan Campaign Button (hidden track from 'The End Of History')
12. Noisettes Shame (specially recorded)
13. Johnny Flynn Cold Bread (exclusive version)
14. Skream Chest Boxing
Disc One of the CD will be cover-mounted on a special issue of the NME in shops Wednesday 17th October. Disc Two (as well as Disc One) will be available shortly afterwards as a free download from www.nme.com/lovemusichateracism.
To enable people to download the music and create their own CDs, as well as to spread the LMHR message even further and wider, LMHR and NME have produced 500,000 empty CD sleeves. These sleeves will be distributed into schools, colleges, youth clubs, universities and workplaces across the country via the NUT. The CD will also act as a flyer for the campaign, with links to the NME/LMHR microsite. The site will contain exclusive video interviews and quotes, live footage of LMHR gigs, anti-racist resources and teaching materials and guides on how people can get involved and put on their own LMHR events.
