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MEDIA
VA - Media, Control, Illusion (A Butterboy Compilation) (4 X CDs)
Across the last seventy years, systems of mediated perception have become one of the defining forces shaping modern life. Television, advertising, political messaging, digital platforms, and algorithmic systems no longer simply describe the world, they increasingly influence how it is perceived, interpreted, and understood. This anthology follows the long conversation between artists and those systems, tracing the evolution of media from the broadcast era to the age of personalised information, and ultimately toward the recovery of independent perception.
CD1 explores the age of broadcast television, when the screen established itself as a powerful instrument of cultural authority. These songs recognise that news, advertising, and entertainment do more than communicate information. They organise attention, shape desire, and establish shared versions of reality. The artists understood that the screen was never a passive window on the world, but an active participant in constructing it.
CD2 moves into the digital environment, where perception becomes personalised. Identity is transformed into data, attention becomes a measurable commodity, and algorithms continuously adjust the information each individual receives. Surveillance, performance, and recommendation systems merge into an environment where reality is increasingly filtered through invisible computational processes. These songs capture the psychological consequences of living inside that feedback loop.
CD3 examines the deeper architecture through which collective belief is formed. Here the focus shifts beyond media itself to the institutions, political language, historical narratives, and emotional framing that manufacture consent and stabilise public understanding. These tracks expose the mechanisms through which perception is organised long before individual opinions are formed.
CD4 completes the journey by turning away from systems of control and toward cognitive independence. Rather than simply reacting against media, these songs explore the reconstruction of perception itself. They examine consciousness, agency, authenticity, and the deliberate rejection of inherited narratives, suggesting that clarity is achieved not by escaping the modern world, but by learning to recognise the structures through which it is presented.
These four stages form a single progression: broadcast conditioning, algorithmic modulation, institutional narrative, and perceptual recovery. Rather than offering a history of media alone, this collection documents an enduring artistic response to the forces that shape belief, identity, and reality itself. It is ultimately a record of how perception can be manipulated, how illusion can become normalised, and how clarity can be consciously reclaimed. (B)
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Track lists
CD1 THE SCREEN IS WATCHING YOU
01 Pink Floyd - Welcome to The Machine 7:32 1975
02 Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised 3:01 1971
03 Vapors - News at Ten 3:22 1980
04 Tubes - TV is King 3:08 1979
05 Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime 2:34 1973
06 Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me 4:16 1991
07 Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star 3:29 1971
08 Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - Television, The Drug of The Nation 6:39 1992
09 Radiators From Space - Television Screen 1:52 1977
10 Midnight Oil - Read About It 3:52 1982
11 Kinks - Give The People What They Want 3:45 1981
12 Police - Too Much Information 3:42 1981
13 Dead Kennedys - M.T.V. Get Off the Air 3:37 1985
14 Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Radio, Radio 3:06 1978
15 Roger Waters - Watching TV 6:07 1987
16 Smiths - Panic 2:21 1986
17 Laurie Anderson - O-Superman 8:23 1981
18 David Bowie - Big Brother 3:21 1974
19 SKYHOOKS - Horror Movie 3:47 1974
20 Alan Parsons Project - Eye in The Sky 3:57 1982
CD2 DIGITAL MIRRORS
01 Radiohead - Idioteque 5:09 2000
02 Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism 4:23 2007
03 David Bowie - I'm Afraid of Americans 4:22 1997
04 Daft Punk - Television rules the nation 4:46 2005
05 St. Vincent - Digital Witness 3:22 2014
06 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 6:23 1997
07 Everything Everything - Software Greatman 6:05 2013
08 Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show 7:16 2002
09 Lcd Soundsystem - Us v Them 8:29 2007
10 Muse - Algorithm 4:05 2018
11 1975 - Love it If We Made It 4:12 2018
12 Everything Everything - Cough Cough 3:44 2013
13 UNKLE (with Thom Yorke) - Rabbit in Your Headlights 6:17 1998
14 Metric - Artificial Nocturne 5:42 2012
15 Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer 3:29 2012
16 Steven Wilson - Personal Shopper 9:49 2021
17 Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps 5:29 1998
18 Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet 7:18 2007
19 Algorithm - Isometry 3:06 2013
20 Muse - The Globalist 10:07 2015
CD3 MANUFACTURED CONSENT
01 Doors - The Unknown Soldier 3:23 1968
02 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Fortunate Son 2:19 1969
03 Barry Mcguire - Eve of Destruction 3:35 1965
04 Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter 4:32 1969
05 Temptations - Temptations - Ball of Confusion 4:04 1970
06 Jam - News of the World 3:28 1978
07 Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype 5:19 1988
08 Talking Heads - Life During Wartime 3:41 1979
09 Pink Floyd - Another Brick in The Wall, Part 2 3:56 1979
10 English Beat - Whine & Grine, Stand Down Margaret 3:46 1980
11 Crass - Big A, Little A 6:13 1980
12 Fishbone - Party at Ground Zero 6:31 1985
13 Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Shipbuilding 4:53 1983
14 Kate Bush - Army Dreamers 2:54 1980
15 Peter Gabriel - Biko 6:54 1980
16 David Bowie - Five Years 4:43 1972
17 Ministry - TV II 3:04 1983
18 Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles 3:05 1979
19 Billy Bragg - Between The Wars 2:29 1985
20 Public Image Ltd - This is Not A Love Song 4:10 1983
CD4 WAKING UP
01 Talking Heads - Once in A Lifetime 4:19 1980
02 Peter Gabriel - Here Comes The Flood 5:55 1977
03 Depeche Mode - Everything Counts 3:59 1983
04 The The - This is The Day 3:58 1983
05 Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It 4:30 1985
06 Sound - Winning 4:18 1981
07 R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend 4:21 1988
08 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning 4:16 1987
09 Public Image Ltd - Public Image 2:58 1978
10 Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty 4:59 1980
11 Fall - Kicker Conspiracy 4:13 1983
12 Joy Division - Transmission 3:53 1979
13 Wire - Practice Makes Perfect 4:11 1978
14 Minutemen - This Ain’t No Picnic 1:57 1984
15 David Byrne - Glass, Concrete & Stone 4:15 1981
16 Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (Manchester) 8:05 1979
17 Pop Group - We Are All Prostitutes 3:13 1979
18 Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 4:39 1979
19 Public Image Ltd. - Poptones 7:46 1979
20 Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in A Dangerous Time 4:06 1979
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Music weaves itself into the fabric of our emotions, dances through the corridors of memory, and whispers to the soul of who we are. Sharing these stories deepens the connection, turning the experience into something timeless and profound.
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