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The Disco For Our Dead EP brings two new songs from CrowdRock (Jason Roth, half of Neon Cities) on his new imprint Class Action. The title track is a gothy electro/disco cut, taking equal inspiration from italo-disco classics like Charlie’s Spacer Woman and early era Justice. Both a vocal and a instrumental version are on the EP. Next is FMWP, a brutal distortion driven Nu-Electro jam. This release see’s Roth’s CrowdRock moniker delve deeper into “I’m brutally pist about how the last couple years have gone” concept. Exploring ideas about death, anger, racism, and the existence of our dark electronic music community in a pandemic. We also see Roth’s first vocal outing on Disco for Our Dead. It was important for Jason, as an artist, to create a space to truly disco for our dead, and take some risks artistically. Jason is not the church type, and probably never will be. The dancefloor has been his pew, and the studio and DJ booth…his alters. In this release Jason wanted to honor that part of himself. The death we have all experienced during pandemic living, even if it was uncomfortable.
The MWP in FMWP stands for “My White Privilege.” While it’s not always our job to explain white privilege to others, Jason wanted to explore ideas about his own privilege with the track. The frustration that a vastly unequal society we live in stirs up. Hopefully this can create room to open up discussions about race and privilege. Starting with your own privilege, and coming from a place of empathy and understanding for others seems apt. Growth rarely happens at the end of a pitchfork, and arguments between strangers on the internet rarely give space for people to understand one another.
For your consideration, for our dead, but most of all, for those spaces that they leave behind in us, when they pass. May we all find some peace, in the disco, or, just in our headphones.
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Credits:
©Class Action Audio
℗Class Action Audio
Written and Produced by Jason Roth @ Flower Valley Studio
Additional Production by Chase Dobson
Mixed and Mastered by Chase Dobson @ 1156HQ Studio
Original Generative Artwork by Canvas.51 ( https://www.instagram.com/canvas.51/ )
Additional design work by by Abby Miller ( https://abbeymillerdesigns.com/ )
Additional video production by Michael Stone