Laibach - The Whistleblowers (Spectre) official video
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The Whistleblowers video
Directed by Morten Traavik, 2014
DOP: Valdis Celmins
1AC: Janis Jurkovskis
2 AC: Miks Ramans
Art director: Kristaps Epners
Costume designer: Jurate Silakaktina
Make-up artist: Viktorija Safronova
Gaffer: Juris Zemitis
Line producer: Agne Skane
Editor: Gatis Belogrudovs
VFX: Madars Upitis, Jaroslavs Kreilis
SFX: Janis Kreituss
Colourist & online editor: Kriss Rozins
Sound: Artis Dukalskis
Special thanks to Valnoir, Paris and School 41, Riga
Produced by VFS Films and Traavik.Info
Technical support SDG Lighting and BBRental"
LYRICS:
We rise, we grow
We walk and we stand tall
We never fall
As big as the sky
As far as the dawn
We walk
And we do not fall
We sleep, we dream
With no time in between
We never stop
Whistling our chant
In the heat of the night
We sing
The spirit is clean
From north and south
We come from east and west
Breathing as one
Living in fame
Or dying in flame
We laugh
Our mission is blessed
We fight for you
For freedom unforeseen
Thinking as one
Rolling along
To the beat of the drum
We march
The black cross machine
We stand alone
But soon the day will come
When freedom rings
We'll meet again
Now eternally
And walk
Once more as one!
TOUR DATES: www.laibach.org/future-events/ - Hudba
We rise, we grow
We walk and we stand tall
We never fall
As big as the sky
As far as the dawn
We walk
And we do not fall
We sleep, we dream
With no time in between
We never stop
Whistling our chant
In the heat of the night
We sing
The spirit is clean
From north and south
We come from east and west
Breathing as one
Living in fame or dying in flame
We laugh
Our mission is blessed
We fight for you
For freedom unforeseen
Thinking as one
Rolling along
To the beat of the drum
We march
The black cross machine
We rise, we grow
We walk and we stand tall
We never fall
As weak as the sky
As far as the dawn
We walk
And we never fall
We stand alone
But soon the day will come
When freedom rings
We'll meet again
Now eternally
And walk
Once more as one!
It's hard to put into words what Laibach means to me.
But I'll try, and I hope you, the reader, are with me.
Friends and I saw Laibach at gigs in the UK in 1985, chatted to them after the gigs, and saw them in a similar light as other contemporary post-punk groups, such as Sonic Youth, Psychic TV, Coil and Foetus, that we also met post-gig in many cases, and had a good natter.
We had also visited Slovenia in the mid-80s.
I left the UK in the early 90s.
I've been almost 30 years out of the music scene.
Laibach's evolution has been amazing, however. Their stance, their videos, confound and mesmerise.
"The Whistleblowers" is an incredible track.
I have to see Laibach again, before I die.
Their music, themes, and nuanced outlook is a light for me, and hopefully others. Rock on!
I hope you get to see them. I saw them in Romania in 2017 during their Also Sprach Zarathustra era. It was amazing, I can't even describe the abundance of emotions that have engulfed me, I lack the vocabulary for that. I can only say that it was sublime and I found myself crying without even noticing, that's how hypnotized I was by their music.
2 guys from Laibach are from slovenia in Trbovlje and i acctualy live here and we were today in museum and it was history about their band it was interesting and i now searched them
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@@gugugagagugu07 yes, something other than just aesthetics or enjoyment - bigger than itself - that's art
You've expressed that beautifully and truthfully, for my experience of Laibach, also since 1985. I left Germany for Australia - and was able to see them in 2019 at the Fomo festival, ...4 times, as well as talk to Ivan Novak.
I reject the concept of 'fandom', usually, but the one exception I make is for Laibach.
These guys are my benchmark for truly great art in all its facets.
There is hope in the songs of Laibach. Freedom, brotherhood, no egoism, no totalitarism. I like their poetic hymns.
No like on this comment as i like it. Let`s keep this at 42.!
exactly like u said: Laibach seems and sounds like HOPE
I don't think this is the sound of hope. I think it's the sound of the alarm. Wake up, Europe is turning nationalistic again. And, look around, they were right. That's why it's called whistleblowers. Yeah, in the end there might be hope. The flower. But until then it's Europe turning nazi and kids going through training to be tough and be able to blow up stuff (pots).
tu n'as toujours pas compris la démarche de Laibach depuis le début...
I don't think there is another band like Laibach!
Rammstain is similar.
Grega Vrhovnik
I personally don't find their approach to be as original as Laibach's. Laibach are more of a moving target in regards to what they put out. Rammstein is generally quite heavier.
+Foxtrot Hotel they are the closest band to Laibach, but not the same as you said.
+Foxtrot Hotel
Yes thematically there's several... check out "Snog vs the Faecal Juggernaut of Mass Culture".
But probably none left that can match the history of Laibach - this is true.
+Old OddJobs it is weird to read that because there was this only interview I found with subs, from around '99, where they talk about Laibach, that they wouldn't influenciate and the only reminder from one to another was the vocals style, and I guess Lindemann was a bit upset on that comparison; but that interview is almost as old as me, what the hell. Quite interesting, your comment, anyway.
Slovenia!!!! Your children make us proud!!!! Unsere Mission ist Gesegnet!!
Singers are children of Slovenia.
Athlets are children of Latvia.
Laibach's music is some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard.
Proud of my Slovenian Heritage! Pozdrav IZ CANADA.
After so many years, this song is still so deep in my heart. a hymn for the free world!
There is no "free world". Not yet at least.
What are the GPS coordinates for this free world?
Ngl a completely free world sounds like a hell hole. A place where people are free to screw other people over to their hearts content. No thank you.
Można słuchać bez końca. Te słowa i ta melodia... po prostu świetne.
i gwizdać !
Odkryłem dopiero 3 tygodnie temu, i od tego czasu codziennie leci w moich głośnikach
słuchałem tej piosenkii gdy przejeżdżałem przez Laibach w ubiegłym roku(:
We stand alone,
But soon the day will come,
When freedom rings,
We'll meet again,
Now eternally,
And walk,
Once more as one!
Veri gud
This video is truly a masterpiece. The feel fresh, new and ground breaking and yet it still retains a familiar Liabach Ideology. This is a new and exciting facet to Liabach. Liabach needs a country to themselves.
Laibach je glasba. Perfekcija, kot vedno.
Laibach je ljubav ogromna, i veeeeelika pamet, ogromno obrazovanje stoga: uvijek poruka i upozorenje. ko zna da vidi, i cuje. samo mu ochi dobre pogledaj !!!
This has to be one of the most creative videos I've ever seen.
When Laibach released spectre, they were few years ahead of everyone. The whole album is amazing, layered masterpiece and analysis about modern times and issues. Everything is still just as relevant to what's happening now, as it was in 2014.
Laibach You are our heroes! Pozdrav iz Ljubljane :)
You mean from "Laibach" xD
Ns slovenceu je pa očitno pousod dovolj hahaha
Epic Laibach anthem. I whistle this when I'm taking driving lessons (-:
Gwen Korinek Once it's in my head I cannot get it out :-)
+Gwen Korinek try it when u take diving lessons............................
I've been listening to Laibach songs for more than 20 years now, and I'm still amazed by all that they bring to music. Alway different, always new.
Odlično. ..Bravo Laibach
Laibach! Ваш новый альбом относит меня к временам Front 242, Yello, Depeche, Young Gods.. Но вы в отличии от всех, это подали очень свежо! Крайне уверенно, не боясь ассоциаций. Это удел сильного! Сила в искусстве, сила в позиции относительно мира, сила в творчестве! Прекрасная работа! Поздравляю вас с новыми силами! Настоящие творцы! Вас слушаешь, и хочется жить и тоже творить! - Такое впечатления оставляют работы только НАСТОЯЩИХ творцов! Спасибо вам за то что вы есть! Больше нет слов. СПАСИБО!
The ripest album of Laibach ! Magnificent sounds, magnificent voices. My heart and my feet dance. Thanks to Laibach .....
In an age of bullshit music, this is a breath of fresh air. Simply wonderful.
i understand this thinking... there's even easier access to all types of music and nothing limiting anyone from finding or making it. i wouldn't say age of "bullshit music".
@Utopija Shut up serb! This is the one and only slovene band :))
@Utopija sumnjam da su Laibach nacisti, jer da su zaista nacisti, ne bi svirali u Zagrebu '89 godine na guslama
really? Laibach is a fucking joke
@@LightspeedTutorials and who are you to judge whether something is a joke or not?
Haven't heard a new Laibach tune for 20 years. Such a pleasure! Masterpiece!!!
It is good to know that Laibach is a band for all time, for all generations, passing the torch. Thank you for the strength.
Love this catchy tune. When i was a kid... Dated a girl who loved this band. Early 1993+- and have fond memories of hearing there early stuff. I wish i could still get hold of... So on a wim placed a order for any vinyl out there of them hoping my supplier could find me the old stuff i knew... Anyway 3 months later here on the tip of africa Capetown, I receive two vinyl, didnt even know these guys where still going! so "Specter" was one of them. I cant stop listening.
Les véritables français aimeront LAIBACH pour l'éternité.
Cela doit être dit.
May our Folk find themselves again. May our children see freedom.
Intendi il Volk italiano? Eh...
From north and south,
We come from east and West,
Breathing as one,
Living in fame of dying in flame,
We rise or mission is blessed
Dass geht nicht den Bach runter. Great Music. Never heard a song of this group, .... WOW.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING MR. JULIAN ASSANGE!! YOU CAN WALK WITH YOUR HEAD UP UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD MAN.
GOOD LUCK!!!
BEST REGARDS FROM POLAND!!!!
Love and gratitude from Norway Mr. Assange.
Well said! I wish him the best too!!!
I wish him a comfortable prison. Regards from Poland!
Best regards from Greece!
I'd say best from America, but we are the reason why he's in a UK prison. Maybe Trump will pardon him if he gets elected
These kids are everywhere!!!! In all countries of the world! ❤
Truly some of the most inspiring and politically astute music I've heard in ages. Old Laibach is dead. Long live new Laibach!
Laibach is a mission which demands fanaticism
"From North and South we come from Eastern lands. Breathing as one. Living in fame or dying in flame. We love our mission is blessed" Hvala brothers! made my day
From north and south
We come from east and west
ludilo ...pozdrav iz srbije ,..vi ste jedini normalni,...
I used to like Laibach for their amazing cover versions, their own songs were rarely my kind of music, but damn this is an amazing song
Do you remember commenting this 9 years ago?
Technically this is sort of a cover of the old German folk song Im Frühtau zu Berge.
Люблю Вас друзья - с первого альбома - Все люди братья!
проте є деякі виключення ..
@@vitaliisymon Все люди -- браться, если не мудаки?
This is absolutely genius! Thank you Laibach for your contribution to the arts of the world.
Laibach, nutrition for the soul.
Un souffle de vie, pour toujours. Najlepša hvala!!!
И во Македонија се слушаат Лајбах! Поздрав до браќата Словенци и бидете горди што имате вакво групиште!
Па нормално дека се слуша и во Македонија, ова музика еден ден ке биди класична а веќе сега ед иконична
Laibach se nenadminati na ovie prostori i posiroko
🇧🇦 🇧🇦 🇧🇦We rise, we grow
We walk and we stand tall
We never fall
As big as the sky
As far as the dawn
We walk
And we do not fall
We sleep, we dream
With no time in between
We never stop.
Pozdrav tudi tebi v Makedonijo!
Само една е таа 'физичко во основно' естетика :D
Geniajlno idejno, izvedbeno in glasbeno zrcalo našega časa.
absolute BANGER of a song .... everything ... love it
Večne legende.
This is Way too awesome to be true.
Such an amazing Piece of Music ❤️
Aguante Laibach desde Colombia. Tremenda Banda. Una de las mejores de los últimos 40 años. Such a wonderful band, Laibach are true artists.
The most beautiful song i have ever heard in my life
Amazing piece, perfect execution. Mindblowing to think of this live in NK
They made it.
beautifull sound. it is typical Laibach sound & creative souls. i don't know if this is a couver, i will discouver it i think. thanks for this heroic feel.
Laibach posle 30 g ostaju to sto jesu,melodicno iskreno i psihodelicno,sa jakim uticajem svega sto nas okruzuje.
C'est génial et c'est tout. C'est Laibach !
Dobro došli u Niš, jedva čekam :)
Мощно! Сильная энергетика.
LAIBACH = Best Band ever. So many great awesome Songs.
Bravo, Laibach!! Awesome!
아직도 종종 찾아듣는 곡...
thank you, from Lithuania :)
Beautiful narrative and video. So good to see Laibach back in form...
Je crois que c'est la meilleure de Laibach que j'ai jamais entendu. Le clip est cool aussi! :D
This song is incredible. The video is incredibly well done also
Beautiful!
Awesome. Says so much to the world with so little words.
Laibach уверенным шагом входит в мой личный топ любимчиков. Газуйте, ребята. Пускай не будет вам преград!!!
Great song! Can't stop whistling now. Also, soviet electronic devices from my childhood - multimeter, oscilloscope, wave generators.
Tohle je prostě nádhera. Skvělé vyzvánění na mbl.
Laibach je Laibach
Great track and great to see Laibach back again.
可以聽到這麼棒的音樂,真是太幸福了!
This song never gets old.
Just can't get that tune out of my head. Brilliant :)
absolutely true!
Gives me chills, gotta love the totalitarian patos :) Long live NSK
Still one of my favorite songs.
Thank you for so much enjoyment.
We fight for you
For freedom unforseen
Hymn of Europe
Laicbach......pure and great.
une vrai musique.. un vrai artiste.. un vrai combat
Dobro nam došli 4. uveče, geniji!
I know Im off topic but that guy with microphone 0:34 is sooo coool and later 3:05 when they are looking at blowin flowerpot... My commentary is a tribute to all those guys who were not good enough to be a whistleblowers but did they part. A silent heroes. SALUTE!
Phenomenally inspirational track! Bravo Laibach!
The video is awesome too!
My one and only Laibach ❤️
Zjutraj si dam tale komad, zaplešem in še malo zapojem zraven in nov dan je takoj lepši...moja budnica
This video in 2014 was what made me want to learn acrobatics(it paid off)
LAIBACH IS BEAUTIFUL.
AND IN CONCERT ARE EVEN MORE BEAUTIFUL
It's truely fantastic!
I only recently found out about Laibach, and as a rammstein-loving *Croat* I never knew there was such a great band this close to my country. I just love this song, Opus Dei, and Geburt Einer Nation. I love Laibach and great support!!
Early in Rammstein's career they were called Laibach-copycats, and there's more than a little merit to it.
Be sure to check out the Laibach albums Nova Akropola, Kapital and Volk. Those are their best IMHO.
@@kineticmusic5462 check the facts. Anyway, Rammstein is for teenagers and Laibach is for adults
Erstaunliche Künstlergruppe👌🏻👍🏻
Awesome, love it!
the definition of an hymn. Amazing track
Anthymn.
So being a gymnast under the watchful eye of Milan Fras gives you whistling powers like those 'weirding modules' from the Dune-movie?
Nice sci-fi reference.
Well, some might think that it's better to know who is watching and who is in control than to live illusions, while others might think that they're free as long as their TV tells them.
Isn't it a great song?, sounds like a musical antidote.
hahaah win!
Yes.
sounds like a national anthem
Thats the idea...
Like a military march actually.
jugend anthem
it is the anthem of north korea
It's the national anthem of the ubermensch.
The message here is strong and beautiful, and should be chanted for ages, until Humanity is free and after that too.
Je viens de découvrir et je la passe en boucle !
"Im Frühtau zu Berge wir ziehn, fallera!"
maintain discipline, train hard, practice to perfection whatever you may do...
amazing piece
I thought the meaning of the song had something to so with fascism
От Лайбах никогда не знаешь чего ждать, и это круто! ))
Leibach has so many musical varieties and incarnations that he has probably converted every possible kind of music industrial.
La no Le Laibach
Une nation qui veut que ses enfants soient des surhommes est vraiment sur d'exister.....!!!!
Every song and every video Laibach does has meaning that may not be obvious from a glance at the surface appearance or casual listening to lyrics in the way we may often do with music. It's not just beautiful nonsense, though I suppose some would imagine it that way.
The name of the song may hold part of the clue to meaning---"whistleblowers". Think about Snowden, Wikileaks, now revelations about Heartbleed and continuous stories from the Ukraine situation that fly directly in the face of what is being dished out by the Western mainstream media.
The video shows pre-teens and young teens improving their skills and undertaking challenges to toughen themselves---both individually and as a cooperating coordinated team. When combined with the lyrics, it would appear to suggest that the hope of humanity lies with the young, with the fighters who struggle for more than just themselves but who don't forget themselves and don't shirk self-responsibility for the future made by their own hands, with those who will not be satisfied with the status quo or with the "new normal" nor with passively being "average".
I think the song is essentially optimistically revolutionary on a philosophical and spiritual level. It seems to say that this ostensibly all-powerful anti-human global order will also be overthrown and replaced by a better humanity, and it may come sooner rather than later (the preteens and teens will grow up quickly, will know themselves to be worthy of a decent future, and will basically know that a better world is objectively possible---woe to those that stand in their way!). The remaining flower at the end would suggest the better tomorrow, followed by the young boy with his arms extended in a victorious stance at the end of his action signifying a better more advanced humanity that has been forged by the experience of a self-emancipation struggle to secure that better future. The militaristic tone of the song and the coordinated discipline of the youth striving for a common purpose in the video suggests that there must and will be a FIGHT for the better future, and that those how want such a future must prepare and act as fighters working together like an army for our common aim to be achieved. But a revolutionary FIGHT is waged not only with weapons and not only by spilling blood...half of the struggle is within and among ourselves, remembering and striving for the kind of humanity we wish to inhabit the better future and who could earn it by their action (this is what the phrases "we rise, we grow" and "the spirit is clean" imply). Anyone can merely take up arms and fight, but what does it require to fight successfully for a better future?
Even the talk of 'freedom' here doesn't seem to be about individual self-seeking, but rather that it will take a better world for a better self-liberated humanity in order for real freedom to be possible for each, and any such freedom made possible by the collective action of humanity requires social responsibility as well because "an injury to one is an injury to all", because all support and protect the freedom of each, and equivalent reciprocity is expected to maintain the free humanity rather then once again put it under the yoke and at the mercy of anti-social anti-human individualist predators and parasites.
If my interpretation is anything similar to what Laibach intended, then clearly this is an brilliant communication which is simultaneously very subversive and also quite beautiful and hopeful.
@Jamie Commie
Thanks for sharing your analysis with us. I've been looking for something concerning the actual sense of the song and the clip not the discussion on fascism.
Speaking about that - I'm curious how you understand the portrait on the wall and the general aesthetics of the school and kids. Is Milan Fras representing an omnipresent dictator, the order, which the whistleblower are going to fight agaist or rather - their leader? Both options don't convince me.
I also wonder what purpose the scenography and aryan kids serve.
I'm not very familiar with the controversies around Laibach and their nazi-like style and I wonder if it should have an influence on our interpretation.
I hope you will answer although it's been two years!
My interpretation is almost completely different than yours, for me the songs depict how fascist ideas of corporativism, aryanism, ultra nacionalism are developed in society. To me it's an ironic song that looks positive and optimistic in it's surface but denounces an hateful ideology.
Jamie Commie three years from now on ...dunno if you wil read this?!
You saved my faith in CZcams, i completly agree with you! I cannot understand, why you've got only so few upvotes!
I think Laibach understand art very well in that it is subjective. I like your analysis as well as Petits
I like to see how different people can understand a different meaning to the same song.
To me this song can be quite positive, regardless of the ideology used or not and is a message of hope for unity and freedom. Even if the clip look kinda fascist and extreme, it's not a bad thing as it can be used for literally whatever.
The kid at the end is also an example of how to use the same force others use but to create something different, as powerful and also better.
The only sad thing is people using Laibach to push their ideology, be it "Laibach is totalitarian in disguise" or the as much idiotic "Laibach is anti-totalitarian".
I don't understand that need to politize everything, or accept/reject something because it's of a different ideology.
You did it again, I became addicted to this song! Keep up the good work!
You are not alone. :)
Love it!!!
This so needs to be Slovenia's Eurovision 2015 entry :D
Unfortunatly, I think you have to make a whole new song to participate in it.
Well shit :(
If you are serious, you do not quiet get the point of Laibachs song. They want to show that popmusic is just like propaganda. With life is life Opus Dei, a cover of the very famous austrian song life is life from Opus, they showed that the song gets a whole new meaning, when played on traditional instruments. So presenting their country with one of their songs would just be completely against their conviction.
Shrimppete Why thank you, Mr Hipster, for completely ruining a good laugh. Really.
eurovision is a joke
Zivela Karantanija Slovenija👍👍👍👌
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