Arma-X, Zona Minada

Great, a new video by Arma-X, one outspoken Asturian MC.
Arma-X (well, his previous project Stoned Atmosphere) is responsible for having got me interested into Hip Hop some years ago. It was by the end of 2004 when I found "Patria sin Sol", one astonishing Hip Hop track with Political lyrics about the demise (economical, social, even moral) of our homeland, Asturies. This track turned into sort of a hymn for many of those few Asturians that are aware of how fucked our land is.
Some months after releasing Issue 4 (and having made us enjoy with some memorable concerts) St.At. broke up and Arma-X started to work on his own. Different musicians provide the bases, and he adds voice and message (it's that message what turns it into the best "art product" coming out from Asturies in the last decade). Lyrics are furious and inspiring, criticizing everything from our local scope to the global one, but always with particular emphasis in "La Cuenca" (the former coal mining area in Asturies were he was born and that has been transformed, as the rest of Asturies, by the successive Spanish Governments into a reservation for sold out syndicalists, retired miners and and their cocaine addicted children, while the rest of the population emigrates).
Yes, my last paragraph may sound weird, but that's my land now... and this is how it sounds...


Zona Minada (good play on words: coal mines zone - Minefield) (video from december 2009)



Patria sin sol (video from december 2005)



Enjoy/que vos preste.