Activista by Non Bossy Posse

Activista was created in the late 1990's but never really released as such, it was a planned follow up to the cult cassette release Saboteurs of the Big Daddy Mindfuck put out in 1993. This album contains some of the material created for the release, it contains elements of the early Non Bossy Posse style but the production is more dynamic and the sounds actually sequenced. Some of the tracks are from one member of the band like Rob Joyner's 'No Danger', Amino Acid's 'Electronic Grapevine', Ian Andrews 'Consciousness' and John Jacobs 'Solidarity'.

Some background on Non Bossy Posse

In 1991/92 Jellyheads were putting on events at their Wellington St, Chippendale space ( now Serial space in 2016 ). As electro and hip hop entered the musical equation, musicians associated with the collective started experimenting with samples and electronic sounds. Mahatma Propagandi were doing this and eventually joined members of Fred Nihilists to form the group Non Bossy Posse.

Non Bossy Posse were the bridge between Punk and Techno in 1993 in Sydney, well at least the politics of punk, maybe not so much the sound of Punk, although definitely some of the chaos. Not all in the Sydney Punk scene agreed, I remember seeing some graffiti in Sydney Park that exclaimed “Kill all Non Bossy Raver Scum”, oh well, you can't please everybody.

The band dragged kicking and screaming anarchist and anti authoritarian themes into techno music. At best it was unsequenced mayhem, the only rule being the B.P.M. This the band agreed on for the various tracks that focused on themes like indigenous rights, anti capitalism, saving the forests and protecting the earth. Everything else was pretty much random, each player mostly on samplers had a library of loops and sounds at the ready to drop into the mix at any given moment.

Live gigs could soar to great spontaneous heights but could just as easily descend into clashing beats, sounds and out of control synths. The bands 1993 cult cassette release, 'Saboteurs Of The Big Daddy Mind Fuck' was edited by actually cutting cassette sections on the beat with a knife and taping bits together again. NBP's sounds became more sequence based towards the end of their reign and with the band/record label that followed, Organarchy Sound System.

Non Bossy Posse were a regular live act at Vibe Tribe and other underground dance events in the early to mid 90's, the band were more prolific with live shows than in the studio.

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