Oran Overload - Fekkin Plus Music

[Montyfatcat]

 

 

OOC Information is in blue: This is not a canon news site, even if it's being styled like one. Think of this more as a niche punk website that your character might know about if they have an interest in Eridanian punk bands. All songs on this page are real life songs written by real life artists, who will be credited after the audio link by putting it in blue text like this. The reason they're chosen is usually because their songs have lyrics that work in universe, if you make the connection to the real life events that led to the lyrics then I can't help that. There will be references to current lore, but don't consider this a source of up to date lore by any means. Eridanian characters might remember this website as an intranet site on Oran, if they want to reference the site in character.

 

 

 

Oran Overload Finally Launches

Oran Overload is finally here on the extranet, with the help of generous donations from true believers in fekkin good music as well as the help of our new tech guy Shako, who's running the servers for free until we can get some advertising revenue going. We'll be covering the lastest releases, news and drama from the punk scene, reaching from Oran to Nebthet to Olympia. Expect an Eridanian centric coverage of bands, since that's where we're all from, but any knabs that actually reach across to our ears get a chance of coverage, long as they audit well. We got a few writers off the bat, all of who are here purely cause of their love for good music. Our tech team consists of Shako, Shako and Shako, who you'll be seeing plenty of until the accounts page stops exploding every five minutes. Let's meet the team:

 

Shako Moussa - Tech Support - He/Him

Shako is to Oran Overload what a liver is, important to have any fun with what we've got but also important to keep happy and healthy. He didn't actually want to say anything for the page, the moody fekker, but we're sticking him here anyway. Knab loves to bitch about equipment, but is actually bones once you get him away from the monitors and into the bar. As well as keeping the website actually alive, he's our specialist for finding out whether some creaky sounding story actually checks out.

 

Santu Namkoisse - Writer - They/Them

Santu is our main foreign punk expert, pretty much anything that comes from outside of Eri is gonna be scribed by them and you better believe they know what they're on about. They've promised to make sure that we don't turn into some Eri circlejerk that only covers our own nation's music, so anyone from outside Eri who's reading this you should drop them a thank you. They tend to write about the context of the song too, so if you're not into that then fek off.

 

Dia Danger - Writer - She/Her

Our main talent, most of our articles are gonna come from her. She likes to pick anything that she audits more than once, mainly because that passes her standards. All of our new bands are spotted by her, as anyone that used to use the local site will remember. She'll be bringing any new releases and upcoming bands that play loud and proud from the undergrounds, none of those posers that forget where they came from the second they get an album published. Some people might recognise her name from Acid Thieves, yes it's the same knabino.

 

Tulengi Kongbo - Site Admin and Graphic Designer - He/Him

That's me, the drongo that thought it was all bones making a punk site and that it wouldn't take up all of his day and night. Every graphic on this site has been done by me, as will most of our more website related posts like this one. Any big news or updates for Oran Overload will be coming from me. I'm also the one that approves the ads that come on this page, so if you see one that you hate then yell at me instead of the others, I'll be sure to put it on the complaints pile.

 

So what now?

Oran Overload is now available spur-wide, anywhere that has an extranet connection can read our articles. Expect this to broaden our access to new punk from across the spur, but don't worry we'll still be covering new bands you can go see live on Oran itself. Most site updates will be covering the new account system for the next few months, but once we've sorted that out we'll start taking on new members of the team and bringing new kinds of article in. Anyone who's coming in from outside Oran, there might be context missing on drama and series articles, this is because we can't adapt our old intranet site from the proprietary format used in Oran's residential areas (thanks Heph) so you'll just have to figure it out.

[Montyfatcat]

OOC Information is in blue: This is not a canon news site, even if it's being styled like one. Think of this more as a niche punk website that your character might know about if they have an interest in Eridanian punk bands. All songs on this page are real life songs written by real life artists, who will be credited after the audio link by putting it in blue text like this. The reason they're chosen is usually because their songs have lyrics that work in universe, if you make the connection to the real life events that led to the lyrics then I can't help that. There will be references to current lore, but don't consider this a source of up to date lore by any means. Eridanian characters might remember this website as an intranet site on Oran, if they want to reference the site in character.

 

Martian Death Cult Release Limited Edition Single

25th June 2464

After a long period of isolation from both touring and creating albums, the Solarian band Martian Death Cult has announced both a limited edition version of their single "How It Goes" as well as a new tour around the Eridani Federation. The band's drummer, Aaron Kowalski, said on their Chirper that the band "finally got over some issues, but we're back for an important cause". Kowalski went on in a Chirp Longer thread to declare that this tour was a purely charity based event that would be used to raise money for "victims of Biesel's imperialism" as well as "remind everyone that our hatred for Sol doesn't mean we're about to side with Biesel on everything". The band recently came under fire after their last tour on Venus in which they set fire to multiple Solarian Alliance flags on stage, as well as declared the whole alliance murderers after Violet Dawn. It was largely believed that they had disbanded after this, especially as then bassist Zhao Cai was significantly in favour of the Sol Alliance during this controversy. It looks like Cai was removed from the band, as the old bassist Noak Arvid is seen in the promotional material.

 

The tour dates are:

 

The EPMC has already announced that the performance outside of the Asmara will be disrupted by force if "it becomes a threat or disruption to the diners within the Asmara itself". Once again, the EPMC shows that its only purpose is to stop the disenfranchised from being heard by those who could help them. The lead guitarist, Jackson Harcroft, has announced in a Chirper statement that "If the pigs wanna play rough, we'll bring some extra pyrotechnics!". Harcroft said something similar at a performance on Olympia, soon before throwing a molotov cocktail onto a bonfire directly in front of police cordon.

 

It is also being speculated that the band will be playing their infamous protest song "How It Goes", released originally as part of their "Carve Em Up" album released in 2460. This is mainly coming from the coincidental release of a rerecorded version of this song coming out as a limited edition single at the same time that a tour of the same name has been announced. The single, which has already sold 100,000 copies since yesterday, was recorded live in an air bubble set up on the surface of Mars in an area of the metal dunes that were recently cleaned of phoron. The proceeds from sales are being donated to pro-Samaritan charities, as well as The Foundation For The Victims Of Cyborgification. How this will affect the band's reputation is still yet to be seen, but in the mean time we can appreciate that they still hold the morals that made the band so controversial in mainstream music circles.

The new single can be heard here:

 

Actual song: This Is How It Goes - Billy Talent

Santu Namkoisse

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Edited June 25, 2022 by Montyfatcat

[Montyfatcat]

OOC Information is in blue: This is not a canon news site, even if it's being styled like one. Think of this more as a niche punk website that your character might know about if they have an interest in Eridanian punk bands. All songs on this page are real life songs written by real life artists, who will be credited after the audio link by putting it in blue text like this. The reason they're chosen is usually because their songs have lyrics that work in universe, if you make the connection to the real life events that led to the lyrics then I can't help that. There will be references to current lore, but don't consider this a source of up to date lore by any means. Eridanian characters might remember this website as an intranet site on Oran, if they want to reference the site in character.

 

 

 

Concrete Rats Drop New Single Unannouced

5th July 2464

Concrete Rats have always been considered a reliable band on Oran, their albums always match up and their message is usually pretty damn consistent: Oran is absolute shit. Two days ago, their drummer Akosi Storm posted on all of her social medias stating "New album out, go find it drongos." without any other kind of hint where to find it. It only took a day for the album to be found on Storm's old intranet site, which was originally thought to have been taken down when she stopped paying for it. It's been taken down again since then, Storm posting again on her Chirper to say "That was fast, it's on streaming now. Hope you all like the album art, credit to @JadaDoodles!"

The new album, featuring Snake Asare, is a single about Storm's childhood underground as well as what she saw when she moved to the next underground over as a teenager. Almost everything in the song is probably something you know, from krok needles to bodies to broken windows. Like I said, their songs always follow the same theme: Oran is absolute shit. The music isn't though, and I'm happy to say that we've got the audio here as well the album art.

 

Actual song: My Town - Frank Carter and the Rattle Snakes Ft. Joe Talbot

Dia Danger

Edited July 5, 2022 by Montyfatcat

[Montyfatcat]

OOC Information is in blue: This is not a canon news site, even if it's being styled like one. Think of this more as a niche punk website that your character might know about if they have an interest in Eridanian punk bands. All songs on this page are real life songs written by real life artists, who will be credited after the audio link by putting it in blue text like this. The reason they're chosen is usually because their songs have lyrics that work in universe, if you make the connection to the real life events that led to the lyrics then I can't help that. There will be references to current lore, but don't consider this a source of up to date lore by any means. Eridanian characters might remember this website as an intranet site on Oran, if they want to reference the site in character.

 

 

Vysokan NomadPunk band Tortured Jagalaws announces spur-wide tour, including Oran

11th July 2464

Coming out of the ports and fields of Vysoka's city state of Netalem, Tortured Jagalaws are one of the new names in punk making their way across the spur and even into Oranges itself. Their music is a mix of traditional Vysokan instruments, punk vocals, dub and whatever the fek else they managed to throw into the pot when designing their sound, and somehow it actually sounds really good. Normally a bunch of kroks slapping "punk" on the end of their new music genre wouldn't get our attention at all, but Vysoka actually has some slick ties to Eri when it comes to music, and this article is not just a coverage of the band, but using them to help write a love letter to the flexibility of punk.

 

Most of you would hate Vysoka, it's wide open, it gets dark at night and there's fek all to do once you get there except walk around and look at the scenery. Might as well go to a holoroom and save yourself the money. Despite this, they do actually have some cities here and there, although they're so rare that a city actually existing is fairly notable, and the cities themselves aren't like Oran, you can cross most of them by foot in a day if you wanted. All of this means that there's actually some knabs that would rather walk around the empty bits and struggle to live than stay in the cities, kroks are weird like that, and this is where Tortured Jagalaws come in. All of them are knabs that saw all the crime in their home city of Netalem and decided "fek that" before running off into the countryside, running the trails of some bandos called the Night Devils and enjoying the fruits of crime. Pretty normal knabs, honestly, but this is outside Eri so this story is supposed to be shocking I guess. A lot of Night Devils reckon that riding around cities and doing crimes is a pretty natural part of being a human, and that theme is what's picked up in the touring band's album "Perfectly Natural", especially their song "The Old Time" which we've got on the site for today.

 

The sounds on this album are something else, there's the usual stuff like the drums and guitar we all know and love, you can't have a punk album without them, but then they've brought in some traditional Vysokan biz too. Bear with me if I spell this wrong, it seems to have a million spellings and I can't be fekked seeing which one is right, so Vysokans reading cool your tits. You can hear a weird string instrument called an usvolo, it's a 4 stringed thing that they rub a stick and string along, but sometimes they pick it too like a guitar without a pick. You'd think it'd sound shit on the fact that it can't use a distortion peddle, but they actually merge it properly and it sounds pretty slick, especially when it's mixed with the vocals. There's something about the Vysokan accent when singing that really works with this thing, and honestly the whole album wouldn't work if it wasn't Vysokans doing it. Give it a listen.

 

bsttps://sww.IMusic.idris/Tortured-Jagalaws-Official/track/7893214701

Actual song: Not a Crime - Gogol Bordello

 

There's another kind of instrument there too that anyone who's familiar with a history textbook might recognise, a fekkin accordion. I honestly forgot they were a thing until I saw a video of them live, and there is Hanzi Pauly going mad in the background, jumping about and being the life of the show even more than Yanko Cripps, the singer, was. The band isn't just a good sound, they put on a fekkin show, and their stage presence is something else even through hardlight. Some of the bands back here could take a few notes from them, I wanna see Dia beat their dancing honestly.

 

These knabs represent probably the best thing about punk, they can take some instruments that make absolutely no fekkin sense and manage to make them into something beautiful with some attitude and some skills. It's always rusted letting kroks perform on Oran, especially boring ones, but I think these ones are gonna be just fine. Between their arctic performance and the fact that they grew up in, from what I can tell, the shittiest city on Vysoka, I think they're gonna take Oranges by storm while knowing how to handle themselves. If you want tickets, I don't blame you, they'll be in the New Age Arena on the 12th of October, make a note cause it's no tickets and a big tip jar.

Santu Namkoisse

[Montyfatcat]

OOC Information is in blue: This is not a canon news site, even if it's being styled like one. Think of this more as a niche punk website that your character might know about if they have an interest in Eridanian punk bands. All songs on this page are real life songs written by real life artists, who will be credited after the audio link by putting it in blue text like this. The reason they're chosen is usually because their songs have lyrics that work in universe, if you make the connection to the real life events that led to the lyrics then I can't help that. There will be references to current lore, but don't consider this a source of up to date lore by any means. Eridanian characters might remember this website as an intranet site on Oran, if they want to reference the site in character.

Thanks to @ImmortalRedshirt for letting me use their character's background to make this article.

 

Eso: Retrospective and Modern Influence

26th July 2464

Today we'll be going way back, older than most of you, to cover the rise and fall of an old classic of a band some of you still listen to. Hailing from Platform 5, in Nebthet, the band came to characterise the Angry Generation that grew up on the station as well as define a new era in Eridanian punk that would carry on for decades to come. We'll be covering the various members of the group, as well as doing an indepth analysis on one of their bigger hits and what it represents.

 

Eso began back in 2417, exactly three months ago. The founding members were also the final members, marking one of the rare occasions where a punk band actually stays together for more than two years without someone being replaced for being a poseur or a sellout. The band opened with their first album "Rulers of the Rust", a direct criticism of Einstein Engines and their attempts to assert control and stability onto the twins after buying them, protesting the idea that someone could just buy control of your life. As far as we know, Alaafin, real name Abioye Okorie, wrote most of the lyrics himself and very rarely consulted the band on what they thought of them. We can credit the former welder for the angry tone that every song had until his disappearance in 2422, soon after a performance directly outside the main administrative hub of Einstein Engines on the platform. Alaafin was for the most part known to be a heavy substance abuser, even in the early days, and often performed while high on on nightshade, drunk, or most of the time both. To this day, straight edge bands usually point to Alaafin as a reason for why they keep acting like such spoilsports.

 

The rest of the band were somewhat of a different picture, usually only engaging in casual drinking and for the most part struggling to put music to the angry ranting of Alaafin when in the studio. In an old interview Simisola Ademola, the keyboardist, she stated that the main challenge "wasn't matching Alaafin's screaming, but finding a way to play aggressively enough to accompany him". Ademola is now a music teacher on Xanu, when we reached out to her she refused an interview but said that she's happy someone remembers "real music" these days. Some things never change, even when a punk gets to the ripe age of 67.

 

Ilari, real name Taiwo Oyetola, was more than happy to talk to us about the band. They brought up an anecdote of a performance in 2421 at the band's peak, where a show was crashed by off duty EPMC officers who heard the music outside of the bar they were playing in and "got their piggy little clackers so wound up that they couldn't help but start a fight". Ilari said their memory is a little fuzzy these days, but they won't forget when one of the pigs kicked in their bass drum, causing them to become so angry that they took the stool they were sitting on and broke it over the officer's head. The stool was "uncomfy as hell and made of cheap steel" they recalled. Ilari was famously well tempered otherwise, being a skilled drummer who was fond of their snare drums and fast play. It was rumoured that they were the closest to Alaafin before his disappearance, but they refused to say if this was true. At age 70, they still play the drums, but this time for a jazz band called "No Creds", claiming they couldn't go as fast as they used to.

 

The final confirmed living member of the band is Nkiruka Ihejirika, who went by just "Nki" on stage, which we'll stick to for tradition's sake. While we couldn't get an interview, or even basic contact, we can confirm that Nki is still alive and kicking, except not in a musical field. The lead guitarist has gone from a musician to a scientist, being a forefrontal researcher in the race to discover the source of MMPD. She is cited in multiple papers to this day, and appears to be Dr Nki nowadays. Considered the most intellectual of the band, she was known to distort her guitar in weird and wonderful ways to get a sound that would match Alaafin's ranting vocals, with her favourite stage trick being to play notes with a distortion pedal to sound like they were saying "Die pig!" in free. Today, as far as we can tell, she is working on corpo stations as a roboticist, aged 68.

 

Now onto the sadder end of the story. While the basslines were not the most iconic sound of the band, Oni Abati was still well known in the Eridanian punk scene at the time for putting on an amazing stage performance, and their stage presence can still be seen in rare photos of the band to this day. Unfortunately, after Alaafin's disappearance in 2422, Abati would fall into a deep depression. They frequently cited in interviews at the time that they wish their last words to him hadn't been an argument, and famously broke down crying while live on SetToday. In 2424, after a long-standing battle with alcoholism that was not made public until after his death, Abati would commit suicide by gunshot on-stage at a missing persons awareness fundraiser. Today is the anniversary of his death, as well as the anniversary of Alaafin's disappearance. On this note, the team at Oran Overload have agreed that half of all advertising income from this article will go towards the Abati Fund, a non-profit made in his name to help people who have suicidal thoughts.

 

While Alaafin is still unaccounted for, many believe he is dead. The longer time goes on, the less strength the conspiracies that he's living amongst the people on Platform 5 have, especially as he would be nearing 70 today. However, the revolutionary tone of his music continues, even after the band soon broke up following his disappearance. No song covers this theme that ran through the band quite as much as "Dead" in their first album "Rulers of the Rust".

 

bsttps://sww.IMusic.idris/Eso-Fanclub/track/2143063

Original song: Rather Be Dead - Refused

 

The song starts with the chanting in Solarian Common, singing "Long live the revolution" over and over, in a slightly old-fashioned way even by the standards of 2417. This chant was more common back then, and clearly defiant instead of sarcastic like it would be today. The buildup is uncomfortably long, like all of their songs, and doesn't really seem to serve a purpose other than to give the band more time to prepare on the stage. The stage performance for this one involved a lot of harnesses, since the band kept falling over face first while still playing, likely Oni's idea.

 

One of the most important lines in the song, repeated over and over, is "Rather be dead, than alive by your design." This reflects the clear attempts by Einstein Engines at the time to rejuvinate Platform 5 to be considered liveable, although anyone with eyes can see that this failed miserably. The platform was given new paintjobs in the EE colours, any perceived "instability" was dealt with quickly by EE paid for goons, and the area was generally made to become more corporate at the cost of literally everyone there's happiness. "Alive by your design" quite literally means alive by EE's design for the platforms as a whole.

 

The song is simple, but it gets its point across. Dregs would rather die than be forced to debt on Platform 5, even if it means letting the platform fall apart. They're in a worse state now than they were at "Purchase", as if someone's home can be purchased without them having any say in the matter, but they were still pretty bad then and it's generally thought now that the band knew what direction the platforms were going even before they went there.

 

To this day, we can feel the effects of Eso in our music, especially how angry we all love to be in our lyrics. A new wave came, but Eso's quality remains eternal.

 

Dia Danger

 

Edited July 26, 2022 by Montyfatcat

[Montyfatcat]

This will be discontinued, as Oran no longer exists in the lore.