"Rave At Its Best Can Be A Transcendental Experience": Lithuanian DJs Combat Autocracy With Music

A brave group of Lithuanian electronic music producers has released a new album to challenge authoritarianism around the world.

The Vilnius-based Antidote Community produced the song "Voice of Freedom" as a manifesto against all the world's dictators, with songs specifically targeting authoritarian leaders in Russia, Eritrea, China, Syria, North Korea, Belarus and Myanmar.

The album will be presented to listeners by DJ Deri Dako, OBCDN, Maria Paskewicz, Carwell, Neri J and Kali. Experience the words of unelected judges to a techno beat with a powerful protest tradition of techno music.

We wanted to create a techno album for the secret classes of countries ruled by dictators. Antidote director Edmundas Bocurius says the songs on the album are totally anti-dictators.

Vilnius is home to a thriving electronic music scene and the Antidote community hopes to pay tribute to this as well as the clean-up parties that took place in Ukraine after the Russian invasion .

For the first time since 2004, there are more authoritarian countries than democracies in the world. People ruled by a dictator fall into the information trap: propaganda, censorship, and false narratives,” adds Bocurius.

"In The Sound of Freedom, seven music producers squarely oppose these tyrants, using their words to send a message of hope and freedom, a move that is sure to see the record slip back into authoritarian regimes."

Lithuanians are no strangers to authoritarianism , they were annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 and remained behind the Iron Curtain until the 1990s.

After the Eastern Bloc disintegrated, Lithuania and other Baltic states joined NATO to eliminate Russian rule. The two countries now strongly support the Ukrainian cause, and this year a rave was held in Vilnius to celebrate Ukraine 's Independence Day.

The secession of Lithuania from the Soviet Union was called the "Singing Revolution" because of the fundamental role music played in the events. Antidote hopes his music will inspire others fighting totalitarianism.

“It is always fun to work on projects that go beyond the ordinary. Povilas Dicknes aka Derry Dako says:

What special power do electronic and rave music have?

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"Good delirium at its best can be an important experience—it can change the way you see the world."

The album also has unique cover art (see below); An AI version of a human face called an "absolute dictator". The artwork is a composite image that combines the faces of 40 dictators.

The work created by Pijus ÄŒeikauskas is displayed at the Vilnius Open Gallery, an open space in the city's New Town.

We wanted to see the face of evil. To do this, we ranked countries based on data from a number of independent Freedom and Democracy Indexes,” says Bocurius.

“Forty countries with the worst results were selected. Then, using a visual tool of artificial intelligence, we transformed the faces of these tyrants into one to obtain the final dictator, which was used as the basis for creating the artwork.

"Sound of Freedom" is available on Soundcloud and Bandcamp .

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