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TIME LIFE presents
TORTURE CLASSICS
http://www.TORTURECLASSICS.COM
UBERMORGEN.COM feat. JAMES POWDERLY
TORTURE CLASSICS
ALBUM RELEASE, INFOMERCIAL & PERFORMANCE
Sit back and relax, as we make this incredible music come alive!
Seoul / Daebudo / Vienna, August 13, 2010, 18:00h
PRESS-PDF: http://tortureclassics.com/PRESS/TC_PRESSRELEASE_13082010.pdf
TIME LIFE announces the release of the TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION.
Torture Music is the kind of music that's perfect for sitting in the
Afghan or Iraqi Desert, sharing a prisoner for a night, or relaxing
in a military barack or a CIA black site in some godforsaken country
on a lazy afternoon. It's music thats just makes you feel free and
drives others crazy. But, the artists included in the TORTURE
CLASSICS COLLECTION have taken the Torture Music sound and given it a
psychotic and everlasting quality. This Torture Music compilation
includes 60 songs, tons of images, uncensored videos, pdfs and extra
bonus material. The Ultiimate Collection DOWNLOAD-DVD inlcudes both
The White Site Album and The Black Site Album.
To kick-off of the release of the TORTURE CLASSICS ULTIMATE
COLLECTION DOWNLOAD-DVD, a 24h TORTURE-GALA-PERFORMANCE will take
place. The headlining act of the evening will be James Powderly, who
will be subjected to Musical Torture, in the experienced hands of
Hans Bernhard, who will blast Justin Bieber's "Baby" and the new hit
track "Two Different Tears" by the original K-pop Idols the
Wondergirls. He will be tightened into stress-positions to prevent
him from muting the sound. This showcased event will take place in a
cell at Gyeonggi Creation Center Facilities in Daebudo - an island
off the western coast of South Korea, formerly used by the Japanese
to torture Korean orphans. This event will be streamed live.
PERFORMANCE (REPLAY UNDER THIS URL)
http://www.TORTURECLASSICS.com/PERFORMANCE
INFOMERCIAL
http://www.vimeo.com/14084957
DOWNLOAD-DVD/ALBUM
http://TORTURECLASSICS.com/musique.html
Create a bloodbath in your ears and a psychotic shock in your brain!
Hans Bernhard: "With TORTURE CLASSICS and the 24h-TORTURE-GALA-
PERFORMANCE, we create a spectacular media-event and a s(e)oul-
penetrating product. We shine a "single" spot-light on this dark
world of sonic military interrogation."
James Powderly: "Now, you too can own the TORTURE CLASSICS
COLLECTION, America's Red-Hot and Dark-Blue Torture Hits. The
DOWNLOAD-DVD is designed to enhance US security, keep Americans safe
and preserve freedom at home and in the rest of this festering, sad
and unstable world. I could listen to these magical tunes over and
over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over..."
Stevie Benton of Drowning Pool, which has played to U.S. troops in
Iraq, told Spin magazine, "I take it as an honor to think that
perhaps our song could be used to quell another 9/11 attack or
something like that."
TORTURE CLASSICS
THE BLACK SITE
TOP 30
TORTURE CLASSICS includes blockbuster tracks from Metallica, Rage
Against the Machine, Britney Spears, NIN, Eminem, Queen, Nancy
Sinatry, The Monkees, Justin Bieber, Wondergirls, Falco, Tanya
Tucker, Neil Diamond, Barry Manilow, the Barney Show and the Meow-Mix
commercial. And for a limited time only, thanks to governemental
copyright infringement, TIME LIFE can offer you all these confession-
inducing torture tracks for free. Its all here in the TIME LIFE
MUSIC TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION:
1. F**k Your God - Deicide
2. Delta Dawn - Tanya Tucker
3. Rivers of Babylon - Boney M
4. Bulls on Parade - Rage Against The Machine
5. Hells Bells - AC/DC
6. March of the Pigs - Nine Inch Nails
7. Baby one more time - Britney Spears
8. Meow Mix TV commercial - Meow Meow Meow
9. Die MF Die - Dope
10. Enter Sandman - Metallica
11. We Will Rock You - Queen
12. Take Your Best Shot - Eminem
13. White America - Eminem
14. These Boots Were Made for Walking - Nancy Sinatra
15. Kim - Eminem
16. Barney Theme Song - Barney the Dinosaur
17. Bodies - Drowning Pool
18. Sesame Street TV Theme Song
19. Babylon - David Gray
20. Born in the U.S.A - Bruce Springsteen
21. Shoot to Thrill - AC/DC
22. Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
23. All Eyes on ME - Tupac
24. Dirty - Christina Aguilera
25. America - Neil Diamond
26. American Pie - Don McLean
27. Click Click Boom - Saliva
28. Muskrat Love - Captain & Tennille
29. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
30. Paradise by the Dashboard Light - Meat Loaf
DOWNLOAD-DVD/ALBUM
http://www.TORTURECLASSICS.COM/order.html
Create a bloodbath in your ears and a psychotic shock in your brain!
TORTURE CLASSICS
THE WHITE SITE
TOP 30
1. Der Komissar - Falco
2. Private Dancer - Tina Turner
3. Mandy - Barry Manilow
4. Cold - Matchbox Twenty
5. A Question of Lust - Depeche Mode
6. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
7. Music Non Stop- Senor Coconut Y Su Conjunto
8. El Jefe De Narcos - El Potro De Sinaloa
9. Rasperry Beret - Prince
10. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads
11. Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson
12. Get Up Stand Up - Bob Marley
13. Baby - Justin Bieber
14. Mmmm Bop - Hanson
15. Country Trash - Johnny Cash
16. Travelin' Soldier - Dixie Chicks
17. Witness Dub - Roots Manuba
18. Rock Music - Pixies
19. Dance of Shiva - KarmaCosmic
20. I'am A Believer - The Monkees
21. Kopi Dangdut - Inul Daratista
22. Your Pussy's Glued To A Building On Fire - John Frusciante
23. You're Beautiful - James Blunt
24. Paradise City - Guns N' Roses
25. The Best Is Yet To Come - Frank Sinatra
26. Two Different Tears - Wondergirls
27. I Wear My Sunglasses At Night - Corey Heart
28. Empire State Of Mind - Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys
29. My Life - Billy Joel
30. Venturea Highway - America
DOWNLOAD-DVD/ALBUM
http://www.TORTURECLASSICS.COM/order.html
Create a bloodbath in your ears and a psychotic shock in your brain!
INFOMERCIAL
http://www.youtube.com/user/tortureclassics
PERFORMANCE
24H-TORTURE GALA
LIVEIMAGE ( (REPLAY UNDER THIS URL):
http://www.TORTURECLASSICS.com/PERFORMANCE
In this once-in-a-lifetime-performance, high-value detainee James
Powderly will be immobilized with a wide range of stress-position and
musically tortured for a full 24 hours by listening to "Baby" by
Justin Bieber, "The Meow-Mix" TV-commercial and K-Pop superstars
Wondergirls "Two Different Tears" off TIME LIFE MUSIC's exciting
TORTURE CLASSICS COLLECTION. You can watch James unravel LIVE to the
mellow and demented sounds. He will be tortured by the experienced
interrogator Hans Bernhard of UBERMORGEN.COM.
During the performance, Powderly will be able to hit his head against
the wall along to these great songs, as this special memory becomes
burned into his brain. This experiment is as dangerous and pointless,
as it is glamorous and totally rock n' roll. James will confess all
his sins and have a chance to relive his Chinese prison experience -
incarcerated for six days in a Bejing jail during the Olympic Games
in 2008. Throughout the entire performance, Powderly will be on the
verge of a very melodic psychosis. Applied techniques will include:
Prolonged kneeling on the floor, cold room, very loud music, sleep
deprivation, stress-positions, prolonged hooding and exposure to
bright lights and strobes.
Special guest stars include, "Superenhanced" interrogation specialist
Wendy (aka Wendelin P. Teister), U.S. navy psychiatrist Dr. Shird
Kaukasian and a special appearance by Olympic Gold-medalist, Kim Yuna.
This radical media-stunt will occur at the Gyeonggi Creation Center
Facilities in Daebudo: the same facilities once used by the Japanese
to detain and torture Korean orphans during the colonization and
World War II. Don't miss this one-time-only performance that is
guaranteed to keep you "wall-slamming", singing-along and rocking-out-
of-your-mind all night long!
DATE/TIME OF LIVE-STREAM:
FRIDAY, AUG 13, 2010, Full 24 HOURS:
FROM 10am GMT (5am EASTERN, 6PM GMT+8)
UNTIL SATURDAY AUG 14, 10am GMT (5am EASTERN, 6PM GMT+8)
LOCATION: Gyeonggi Creation Center, Daebudo (South Korea)
ONLINE: http://www.TORTURECLASSICS.com/PERFORMANCE
FOLLOW THE PERFORMANCE ACTION PROTOCOL ON TWITTER: http://twitter.com/
TORTURECLASSICS
BACKGROUND
FROM BRITNEY TO BARNEY
Music Torture has been officially and publicly confirmed by
government officials, human rights organizations, prison guards and
interrogators, as well as suspected terrorists who have been detained
in military prisons and detention centers. The United Nations and the
European Court of Human Rights have banned the use of loud music in
interrogations.
The United States Department of Defense and Central Intelligence
Agency has made extensive use of sonic interrogation techniques, ie.
torture by music, in facilities like Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay,
Kandahar, Bagram Detention Center and numerous "black sites"
scattered around the globe. Such Interrogation techniques, combined
with sleep deprivation, hard treatment, water-boarding, air
deprivation and other notorious forms of torture, has been legalized
under special provision of the United States Department of Justice
and the White House under both the Bush and Obama administrations and
continues to be used today.
The actual music used in TORTURE CLASSICS has been reported by both
prison guards and released inmates (Binyam Mohamed and Donald Vance,
tortured with music for 76 days) and includes Top 40 hits, Metal,
Hard Rock, Country and Western, TV theme-songs and commercial
jingles, as well as original "mash-ups" created by CIA agents,
prison administrators, guards and interrogators.
Anonymous: "The Barney Song has a sound that was designed to make
children feel safe and loved. But it was used to torture people and
to drive them to their emotional breaking point. Music publisher Jive
Records changed Britney Spears song title from "Hit me Baby One More
Time" to "... Baby One More Time" to get rid of the ambiguous
undercurrent to the catchy pop smash hit".
Sgt. Mark Hadsell: "If you play the same song for 24 hours, your
brain and body functions start to slide, your train of thought slows
down, and your will is broken. That's when we come in and talk to them".
Guantanamo Prisoner Ruhal Ahmed: "I can bear being beaten up, it's
not a problem. Once you accept that you're going to go into the
interrogation room and be beaten up, it's fine. You can prepare
yourself mentally. But when you're being psychologically tortured,
you can't. From the end of 2003 they introduced the music, and it
became even worse. Before that, you could try and focus on something
else. It makes you feel like you are going mad. You lose the plot.
And it's very scary to think that you might go crazy because of all
the music, because of the loud noise, and because after a while you
don't hear the lyrics at all, all you hear is heavy banging."
LINKS:
Superenhanced Generator
http://superenhanced.com
Superenhanced
Videos, photos, text, research-material
http://ipnic.org/superenhanced
AUTHORS
Hans Bernhard: "I certainly don't believe in torturing people, well,
maybe just a little bit, but i don't believe that playing loud music
is torture either".
James Powderly: "I think probably, a lot of people might disagree,
even some of the other detainees might feel like what they received
wasn't torture. And relative to what someone might receive on a daily
basis at a place like Gitmo it certainly is not particularly harsh.
It's kind of like being a little bit pregnant, we were a little bit
tortured".
TORTURE CLASSICS is a project by the artist duo UBERMORGEN.COM (A/CH/
US) and James Powderly (US, Graffiti Research Lab) in conjunction
with TIME LIFE, the respective artists, copyright-holders and their
respective lawyers.
TORTURE CLASSICS is an outgrowth, a metastasis of UBERMORGEN.COM's
"Superenhanced" project - a two year R&D project on "Enhanced
Interrogations" (newspeak for torture), "Extraordinary
Renditions" (kidnapping), "Supermax prisons" (high-security prisons)
and "child imprisonment" (USA, Iraq, Afghanistan). "The Superenhanced
Generator", an interrogation-software, a series of studio-photos and -
videos with Lola (2) and Billie (5), torture-performances and
military-tribunal installations, and now the TORTURE CLASSICS
COMPILATION are products of this long-term project. TORTURE CLASSICS
combines the clandestine world of military torture & the special
sonic interrogation techniques with the pop-culture ethos and glam-
rock flare of the global music-business.
Powderly's performance related to TORTURE CLASSICS is an extension
of his research into mainstream culture's popular obsession with
terrorism and government-sponsored violence and the celebrity
terrorists and torturers that fill our screens, minds and water-
cooler conversations. Related projects include: Top Chumps Radical
Fanaticals card game, where kids compare terrorists' "stats" to win
cards and the game, and his music video for Bowie's "Rock N' Roll
Suicide", which combines footage of bombings, sniper attacks,
explosions, propoganda and executions, released by terrorist
organizations on the web, with contemporary music video imagery and
style.
http://www.UBERMORGEN.COM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Powderly
CREDITS
Wendy (aka Philipp W. Teister), Hyesoo Yoon, Jaewon Choi, Hongik
University, GCC Gyeonggi Creation Center, Pro Helvetia,
Bundesministerium fuer Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur BM:UKK Austria,
lo-res.org, Chris Arendt, Murat Kurnaz, Dr. Shird Kaukasian, Kim
Yuna, Lotte, RIAA, Breitling, Korean Air, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon,
Royal Caribbean,
INFOMERCIAL TRANSCRIPT
INFOMERCIAL
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INTROSONG HANS/JAMES (The Barney Song):
I love you
You love me
We're a happy family
With a a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
Won't you say you love me too
VOICEOVER: The following is a paid advertisement for time life music
collection.
In the early 2000's rock-pop music mellowed out. Singers, producers,
songwriters, Djs and news on the war in iraq and afghanistan filled
the airwaves when torture music was born.
Powderly: Hi, i m James Powderly
Hans: And i am Hans Bernhard
Powderly: And together we are The Enhancers
Powderly: When we started performing together in 2001 a fresh new
wave came out of Afghanistan
Hans: Something cruel, mellow and melodic that we have come to know
as Torture Music.
Hans: Torture Music is the kind of music that's perfect for sitting
in the Afghan or Iraqi Desert, sharing a prisoner for a night, or
relaxing on a lazy afternoon in a military barack or a CIA black
site in some godforsaken country.
Powderly: It's music thats just makes you feel free and drives others
crazy.
Powderly: The 2000s and 2010s are the golden era of Torture Music.
Everytime some Hadji and his interrogator sit in a cell somewhere in
Egypt, Syria, the US of A or Poland on the in-cell radio or on the
individual headphones they hear incredible hit songs with a laid-back
sound.
Hans: It's that smooth and easy feeling that goes away after
listening to the very same song, very loud, for 24 hours.
Powderly: These songs really take me back to a time of anger and
fear. And now, let me introduce you to our co-host lizvlx.
Lizvlx: I can't belief i am sitting here with The Ehancers. You guys
have so many great songs. I think i own everyone of your albums and i
remember listening to them over and over and over and over and over
and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and
over and over again. -
Hans: Thanks lizvlx, it is a great time to be making torture music
and all these songs bring back a lot of wonderful memories
lizvlx: WOW. These songs sound great.
Powderly: Thats nothing, wait until we get started
Hans: If you love the sound of Torture Music as much as we do, have
yourself tightend into a stressposition and try not to go mental as
we make this incredible music come alive.
VOICEOVER: For the first time ever, all the biggest and best Torture
Music hits of all time together TIME LIFE MUSIC presents the TORTURE
CLASSICS collection
Powderly: Let's get back to the early 2000s. I remember flying over
Baghdad with the top down and listening to incredible songs over the
headphones. like this mellow classic „March of the Pigs" from "Nine
Inch Nails"
Hans: You know, the 00's was the era of the TV commercial and of war.
Every ad told a different story
Powderly: And some of the most memorable wars were fought, and the
soundtrack to the war was written and performed by two pop legends:
britney spears and the meow mix cat.
Powderly: When i hear a great Torture Music song it always takes me
back to a horrible place like the supermax facility in Guantanamo or
a sweltering cargo-container in the desert near Bagram.
Hans: You get a break from the hectic paste of everyday life.
Powderly: Some artist took the Torture Music sound and gave it
psychotic and everlasting quality.
Hans: And you can hear it in classics like this one from Eminem...
Powderly: In 2002 just about everyone had this album.
Hans: And it made Eminem one of the biggest stars of the decade.
Powderly: You know, some people like a fine wine, others like a ice-
cold beer...
Hans: ...but in 2000 everyone seemed to be reaching for an american pie,
Powderly: Wow! what great memories. I still can hit my head to the
wall along to these songs.
Hans: I know what you mean. And now, all of these amazing torture
music hits together in the TORTURE CLASSICS collection.
Powderly: You'll get some of the most incredible number one hits in
supermax history.
Powderly: What a classic and here's lizvlx to tell you more ,.
Lizvlx: Thanks guys, imagine 60 of the very best Torture Music hits
together in one collection, including some of the songs we recommend
for most effective torture. you can spend a lot of time and money
trying to find all theses songs, in army camps or downloading them
from the internet. but time life in conjunction with the CIA, DoD and
U.S. Army has done all the work for you. and getting it is as easy as
sending an email.
VOICEOVER: Now, for the first time ever all the most unforgettable
torture music hits are together. time life presents the torture
classics collection.
You re-live all the memories of 9-11, Operation Iraqi Freedom and the
invasion of afghanistan, you get 60 original torture music hits by
artists like Metallica, Tanya Tucker, Nancy Sinatra, classic tv
commercials and blood curdling kids television show jingles.
All 60 hits in the torture classics collection have been digitally
remastered to give you detention cell perfect sound.
You hear the make-me-talk hits, the best mindfucking music, classic
angst songs and so much more this is the music that made torture pure
magic.
The DVD is jam-packed with hits and comes with the complete story
behind these incredible songs, the images, the torture techniques and
much more.
You can spend hours of time and a lot of money trying to collect all
the unforgettable hits and images in the torture classics collection.
If you download now you can get the entire collection for free as a
DOWNLOAD-DVD and pre-order your limited edition DVD for only 99$95
or 99Euro95.
But wait, that's not all. When you download in the next 19 minutes we
will also add a free download link to the best interrogation
technique ressources, additional images, great videos, in-depth pdfs
and a free yearly rotten.com membership.
Come and visit us at TORTURECLASSICS.com
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