Pyongyang Digital Hardcore

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The YouTube video above is reputedly by a band in North Korea which somehow smuggles their music to Sweden where it is released.  There is a whole album’s worth of this material on YouTube.

I’m not sure I believe the back story—I think that it is probably just as likely to be some kid in Gothenburg operating out of his bedroom. The video below strikes me as more clearly authentic. And Orwellian:

And just because the PIIE web assistant describes my Itunes directory as “old man radio” I’ll close with some old school harDCore:

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