YouTube channel with a focus on rare left-wing songs and music compilations. Not to be confused with
@GETchan_net
. Don't send requests, do send rare recordings.
In light of the comments on my recent video I've decided to continue posting whatever the hell I want. No amount of ideological frustration from any camp will stop me from archiving rare recordings. I have and will continue to post rare songs some fraction of people will dislike.
These two recordings originated from me, they were made from scratch, and yet they have been claimed through YouTube's bogus copyright system. This isn’t even a case of "using someone else's recording" anymore, I literally directed the singers here. This is actually insane.
Man, this is always pretty demotivating. I had to find someone from Finland to get this track for me from a Finnish service and a second person to translate it for me. Yet a larger channel can just take the audio and translation and double the views 3 years later with no credit.
Japanese text:
「日中両国人民の戦斗的友誼万才!」
"Long live the militant friendship of the Japanese and Chinese peoples!"
「毛沢東思想の勝利万才」
"Long live the victory of Mao Zedong Thought"
「プロレタリア文化大革命万才」
"Long live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"
I want to post a Palestinian song, but the recent strikes on my channel mean that doing so would risk YouTube nuking the whole channel. So I think I'll try and play it a little safer and post a Soviet song about Palestine or something. Maybe that's a way around it.
The most amusing part about this is reactionaries coming out and saying things like that YouTube "finally did something good". In reality they've been doing this for years, I've had a total of 30 videos removed by them, the oldest of which being 9 years old.
*Video gets copyright claimed*
Me: "Actually, this melody is in the public domain because the composer died in 1904."
Claimant: "Interesting. We think we own the rights anyways."
Love YouTube's copyright claim system.
「日本の親米独占資本と軍国主義戦争屋を除けば、広く人民は我々の真の友人である。」
——毛沢東
"In spite of pro-US monopoly capital and militarist warmongers, the Japanese people at large are our true friends."
—Mao Zedong
(New video later today!)
Dropping Tuesday, the grand finale to this arc of hyperfixation that I've been on for a year. Of the 30 songs here, I digitised 18 of them from a combination of records, a cassette and a CD. 5 of them I worked with singers to produce. 10 of the songs aren't even available online.
It's incredible how open Zionists are in regards to viewing Palestinians as an inferior people. Other flavours of fascists will dogwhistle their true thoughts, but the Zionist variety are all too keen to lay theirs out for all to see.
The worst part about YouTube having removed "In the Name of the Popular Front" is that the PFLP's clear repudiation of antisemitism can no longer be seen, allowing reactionaries larping as socialists to feel at home on "The Red Banner is Raised".
@TeamYouTube
needs to restore it.
YouTube's answer: "The corporations we work with are actually trustworthy and they proved to us that they have rights over the content you made."
You really can't make this up. Go ahead, ask them to send you the original files. I can guarantee you they don't have them. Only I do!
@GETchan_YouTube
(1/2) totally understand your concerns, but creators/companies who have access to Content ID have shared evidence of the copyrighted content for which they control exclusive rights: here's how it works:
"Venceremos", the Chilean revolutionary song, sung in Spanish by a Yugoslav choir from Slovenia, from a record directed towards the Italian minority in the country. With an English translation, of course.
Happy New Year, all!
An hour of music from various Mao-era China-aligned groups and movements within Japan, most affiliated with the Japanese Communist Party (Left Faction), a Marxist–Leninist–Maoist party formed in opposition to the mainstream JCP.
There's a pretty stark difference between my description and theirs too. When I say "no credit", they didn't even credit those who made the song. This is why I always try to credit everyone involved and put a source in the description. Remember to credit people for their work!
Saw this comment when revisiting an older video, seems like I'm the only channel named here that's still active 7 years later. Guess I lived up to this person's hopes!
This "Kontor New Media GmbH" group downloaded the songs off of YouTube (that's the only place they were) where I uploaded them for free, they made them into an album, copyrighted it, and now claim my original video so that they get ad revenue off of it.
"Wave The Red Flag", a revolutionary song by the National Democratic Front of the Philippines released in collaboration with the Union of Democratic Filipinos.
Happy 100th anniversary of the Soviet Union! In celebration, I've decided to launch the second channel I had been considering for a while. This channel will have more miscellaneous things that I don't feel would fit on the main channel. Check it out!
Chinese records containing Albanian, Lao, and Korean songs. A record in the series with Japanese songs also exists, but I haven't been able to get my hands on it yet.
This year's First of May not only marks International Workers' Day, but also the tenth anniversary of my first video, which was itself also an International Workers' Day song. A bit hard to believe it has been so long.
Newest purchase, a flexi-disc containing several rare songs from the 9th National Congress of the CPC, including《打倒刘少奇》(Down With Liu Shaoqi), a song that is no longer played since his rehabilitation in 1980. It was sold as《打倒***》(Down With ***) for the seller's sake.
I've met some interesting characters over the years who have helped me with translations like the Tibetan Buddhist monk who got really excited about the songs I had uncovered and the Rusyn man who was very anti-communist but still helped me because of my interest in his language.
One of the bad things about doing the translations for videos myself for the songs in languages I speak is that months later I'll be at work, just thinking, and realise a way that I could have translated a line better. Man do I wish YouTube had a function to update videos.
"Sworn to Struggle Against Dengism to the End", a Cultural Revolution song which urges the Chinese people to always continue the struggle against Deng Xiaoping and his proposals for reform.
Reminder to get an adblocker, if you see any ads on my channel it's because of copyright or YouTube, not me! Due to the nature of my content, I wouldn't be able to monetise my channel even if I wanted to (I don't). A surprising number of people seem to think I profit from this.🤷
@MarxistArtist
No clue. I've posted Marxist-Leninist, anarchist, socdem, left nationalist, Troskyist, and Christcom music in the past and somehow this is the thing that gets (a certain fraction of) people going. It's honestly a bit hilarious.
Since posting the Japanese versions of "The East Is Red" and "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman" I've seen quite a few comments claiming the singers must be Chinese. This feels really silly, especially if you actually listen to their accent when they sing them in Mandarin.
Soviet records often only list the first letter of a composer or lyricist's given name plus their family name. So currently looking through the history of the Art Theatre of Karakalpakstan so I can credit the composer and lyricist of this song with their full names.
Thanks for 80k subscribers!
According to statistic sites, it's likely we'll reach 100k this year. I'm glad so many people seem to take interest in this personal project of mine.
A recording of "Jingle Bells" from 1970s China, performed as part of an initiative to study foreign songs. Other songs also part of this initiative included "Souvenirs d'Enfance" and "Alma Llanera", among others.
I'll never put an intro on my videos, I want them to be easy to put into a YouTube to MP3 converter so people can download and listen to them without having to cut an intro out. I'll never understand why some anthemtubers have 20-second musical intros before every song they post.
@TeamYouTube
Mate, I can share all the original files for these songs from before I mixed them and the conversations I had with the musicians and singers when directing them with you. I don't really care if you think the companies you work with are trustworthy, obviously something slipped by.
So I guess I didn't just stop at the Japanese version of "The East is Red" and "Sailing the Seas Depends on the Helmsman". I ended up getting records with "Liberate the South", "Under the Balkan Stars", and "Avante Camarada" on them as well.