2002 - Jungle AAA Manifesto - The Jungle Association of Autonomous Astronauts

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JUNGLE AAA MANIFESTO

              1) The development of breakbeatscience

              Every junglist knows the sensation of the surging bassline, the unsurpassable angle of
              the break, which drags the body out of bourgeois catatonia & put's it into the
              hyper-kinetic ultra-physic audiostrata of autonomous atronautism. Hiphop & jungle both
              respond to the body without interfering with 'the mind'. Hiphop moves - and that's the
              difference - horizontally & jungle vertically: all the way up, immer gerade aus, into
              space; jungle wishes to stretch & gummify the body akin to the way in which a vocoder
              manipulates a voice to 1000 extra-planetary levels, which will never be achieved, not on
              this stinking planet that is. Earth is not suitable for the total realisation of jungle & for this
              & 333 other reasons JUNGLE AAA strives towards a phonoxodus into space, with
              jungle as its main catalyst.Breakbeatscience is its instrument; the productional alchemy
              that isolates, manipulates & modifies music's DNA into supra-energetic entities which,
              when shaped into clusters of breakbeat extravaganza, form their own engine: the
              rhythm engine. What in biology is called genetic engineering is labeled drum'n'bass in
              music; no vulnerable material in a petri dish, but sonic amoebaliens which compressed
              into high volumes are the source of the explosive combustible fuel for the rhythm
              engine.Breakbeatscience introduced space on earth, now JUNGLE AAA's space
              programme is going to get earth into space.

              2) The promotion of psychoaudiology

              Psychoaudiology is the sonic fiction of the break. A renegade form of breakbeatscience
              which is however also it's inevitable future. A psychoaudiologist is the Ubu Roi of
              Patajunglism, the study of jungle that does not exist, but should exist in another, better
              world. As the successive step after the audiopsychologist DJ, who has become a front
              & a tool for the 4 powers who want to keep us on this earth, the psychoaudiologist is
              the mantronix who eviscerates G-forces & the acetate audiokaryogram in a live
              dialoremix on at least 3 decks in which the sound of today is  turntabilized into the
              space'n'bass of the phuture. The sonic fiction of today is the sonic fact of tomorrow.
              One of psychoadiology's biggest strengths is its gigabyte capable browser program
              which is always frantically searching for unheard fields of spunkjazz, polyrhythm &
              catajungle in which every new technology or its innovations are immediately distributed
              throughout the matrix of break beat labs bedroom studios. It's impossible to monopolize
              a new voodoofication of existing programs, but is syncretic & annexes the
              psychoaudiolyst no matter who s/he is. Unlike NASA & their ilk, every new breakthrough
              which can help to bring space closer is spread as fast as possible throughout the
              junglenautic borganism. NASA projects upon itself the image of the saintly avant-garde
              helping to guide mankind to the future thereby exposing itself to great risk & suffering,
              but in reality they do nothing but provide us with reactionary phenomena like Buzz
              Aldrin, John Glenn & Wubbo Ockels. JUNGLE AAA is not a junglenautical DJ-branch of
              free-masonry, but a knock on your headphones which is going to give Luther Blissett
              what was just rhetoric for Prodigy Kool Keith: a break to another dimension.

              3) The mythopoetics of the junglenaut.

              Be reasonable, demand the impossible & achieve the absurd. The Fermi paradox
              which states that if intelligent extraterrestrial life forms exist, they should already have
              found us is a bore. The fact that no real evidence has ever been found for the existence
              of alien life forms is already proof that they must be intelligent. Aliens are the
              rosicrusions of the space age.The junglenaut was present at the birth of stars here on
              earth & and saw the biggest star of all at its zenith: GROOVERIDER SUPERNOVA: an
              omega point of good taste & a techstep breakbeat singularity placed in a conceptual
              lasagna at a Himalayan level of psychoaudiology. Blinded by the light, the junglenaut
              now looks up to the skies where the stars belong & beam into the depths they deserve.
              The junglist is just a record shop browsing nrrrd who still maintains belief in the binary
              schism between the DJ-caste & the passivity of the audience, for the junglenaut
              drum'n'bass is not the soundtrack, but the groove behind the entire operation to area's
              where not the cop, but Luther Blissett is in control. The junglenaut is the cybotron: the
              vocoderian elastification of the junglist; the phagocyte of house & techno in the
              patajunglist spectrum; the captain Mission of the space-age, moving in several
              directions at once just like the Association of Autonomous Astronauts.

              4) The terrorization of gravity

              Gravity is the police force of Gaia's autocracy & should just like every other institution of
              repressing power be antagonised, bullied, taunted, provoked, wounded & killed just like
              any other institution. It is essential that the G-forces be weakened, before the AAA
              space programme commences. By flying, ballooning, zeppelining, mountain climbing &
              building skyscrapers. The latter should be acoustically correct so the elevator shafts
              can later be used as launching pads for the sound system shuttle in which the
              junglenaut plans his/her progressive escape. Jumping as a form of gravitational
              disobedience is an ongoing thorn in gravity's side. The sub genre JUMP-UP
              DRUM'N'BASS should be taken literally. The practice of hacky sacking is held in high
              esteem by the JUNGLE AAA, because of the drop dead mentality of the bag, the act of
              keeping it in the air is an brutal slap in the face of gravity.

              5) The encouragement of space piracy JUNGLE AAA is obsessed with the myth of
              captain Mission, the seanaut who abandoned the tyranny, the hierarchy, the slave trade
              & the war machine of the navy & buccaneers to found Libertatia in the jungle of
              Madagascar. A free state which selected the best parts & got rid of the rubbish of
              Western society; a civilisation in dub. The era of terra nova selector Mission is behind
              us. Now terra nova; space is being used to count the chickens in the enemy's
              meadows, but the AAA will go there where their cameras can't see.& when NASA, after
              years of disasters, finally succeeds in getting their lada-shuttle past Venus, the
              JUNGLE AAA will be ready for them, hidden behind a meteor, out to get rid of their
              neo-colonisation & to prevent a replay of the 'discovery of Amerikkka'.

              6) The destruction of house, capitalism, fascism & NASA

              The junglenaut is the adventurer who gives the sound system shuttle escape velocity &
              gravity its defeat & sees her/himself confronted with the 4 horse riders of gravity who
              don't want to lose their Newtonian status quo to the entropy of Luther Blissett. JUNGLE
              AAA doesn't keep up with the 19th & 20th-century romantics of the streetfighter &
              cityguerillo, it is not some sort of crypto Bakuninist or micro-communist variation of the
              old socialist tendencies who, like in Star Wars, want to fight fire with fire.JUNGLE AAA
              is disgusted with the dichotomy of their 'us' Vs. 'them' ideology & is preparing to wave
              goodbye to this linearity together with the narrow minded dogmas of the gravity revelling
              quartet from the rear window of SS Photek, while those who stay behind rule their own
              garbage & Faithless and Underworld will finally find their habitat on the worn out soil of
              dystopy earth.To practise triolectical ways of thinking here on earth, the AAA has
              developed 3-sided football to oppose the subliminal, omnipresent group thinking of the
              establishment & the institutionalised anti-establishment. But the JUNGLE AAA's
              metavolution has more tools than just 3-sided football, dubplates & 808s; using D.I.Y.
              robotics, micro sound systems, schockwaves, UAOs, data-tsunamis,
              semiotixscatching & syncretixsampledalia JUNGLE AAA's discokrakers will
              simultaneously frustrate the audiostrata of everyday life on multiple planes.

              7) Breakdancing in space

              NASA's 404s confuse Star Trek's retro futurism with the hollow chewing gum that
              space really is. AAA neuro funkateers refuse to cooperate in a space fantasy which
              extrapolate gravicapital notions like labour, profit & egoism into the wild skies; nie
              wieder John Wayne, nie wieder 'It's quiet here, too quiet'. No to space as a new
              marketable & patentable area, but as a tactic to become more 'human' in the constant
              perplexifation of an environment which allows the junglenaut to experience a whole new
              range of feelings & movements. Just as fish didn't climb onto pangea in a mobile
              aquarium, so humans will, once they are up there, evolve into uninmaginable shapes &
              adaptations to strange surroundings. Earthly phenomena like dancing, shopping &
              getting drunk will have to change or they will be rendered obsolete. Together with the
              rave in space & sex in space programmes of other AAA groups, JUNGLE AAA is
              certain that breakdancing in space will not only be better, but will also be more
              progressive & more fun. All the new steps which used to be impossible due to the
              tyranny of mother earth will be just as spectacular as the 333 effectoletics of hacky
              sacking in space.

              8) The glorification of the sub-sonic bassline

              Every junglenaut knows there is only one thing better than a sub-sonic bassline & that
              is an ever deeper bassline. The bass is the engine which keeps the sound system
              going. The beats are an accessory, perhaps as baroque as fuck, perhaps minimal like
              the lines in a Mondriaan painting. The bpms determine the velocity, but it's the bassline
              which gives the rhythm engine its kinetic energy, a delicious woofer wave resonating
              within the abdomen, the space organ par excellence. A junglenaut/psychoaudiologist is
              a bass fetishist who prefers a silently running sound system above a techno rave which
              travels at boiling speed towards its own Nemesis. Or as Luther Blissett=everybody
              said: You too an astronaut.

Contexto

Jungle AAA Manifesto apareció por primera vez en la lista de correo Tekpost el 3 de junio de 2002 en conjunto con el programa ALT.SPACE Conference (1), aunque unos días después, el 9 de junio, el manifiesto fue publicado en el sitio web socialfiction.org (2). ALT.SPACE fue un evento organizado por The Jungle Association of Autonomous Astronauts en colaboración con Smart Project Space celebrado el 15 de junio del mismo año en la ciudad de Amsterdam (3). El encuentro ofreció una serie de conferencias “con enfoques alternativos, inusuales, provocativos y posdemocráticos sobre el espacio exterior” (3).

Autoras

En el año de 1999 Wilfried Hou Je Bek inició el proyecto The Jungle Association of Autonomous Astronauts (4). Wilfried se define como un "pirata cultural" y dentro de tu trabajo desarrolla psicogeografía generativa inspirado en los conceptos de “deriva” del romanticismo y, más tarde, por los situacionistas alrededor de Guy Debord. The Jungle of Autonomous Astronauts se fundó con el objetivo de demostrar que los viajes espaciales pueden ser accesibles para todos (5).