While so much of the country was living in a time of relative peace and prosperity, Pol Pot was plotting in the mountains to end it all. In the years since his return from France, he had become ever more radicalized, building a cadre of likeminded Communists numbering only about 250 at its inception, but exceptional in its zeal. The KR would base their renunciation of the modern world on the example set by Buddhist monks, where everything you owned, even your identity, was abandoned. Pol Pot’s ideal was a class he called “Old People”, a simple peasant race cleansed of all occidental influence, religion, and education. Only by draining the blood out of the nation could new blood- new ideas- HIS ideas- permanently reshape society.
Music Used in this Episode (In Order of Appearance)
*Ros Sereysotea: Unknown Title (Traditional)
Under Fair Use
*Pen Ron: Angre Choeu Laor
(no known information)
Blacksona: End (from the LP “The Silver Door”
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Audio from President Nixon’s Cambodian Incursion Address,
Televised on April 30, 1970
Public Domain
*Drakkar Band: Do You No Wrong Again/Jomreang Saoka (vocal by Mao Sareth)
from the LP “Drakkar ’74” rereleased November 2014, Metal Postcard Records
Under Fair Use
*Yol Aulorong: Come Again Tomorrow/Don’t Be Upset/Brokenhearted Bachelor/Cyclo
from the compilation “Cambodian Rocks” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Cambodian_Rocks)
Under Fair Use
*Poev Vannary: Bong Mean Tmy Huey (You’ve Got A Friend)
from the soundtrack for the documentary “Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten”,
released April 16, 2016 Dust-to-Digital Records
Humanfobia: A Ghost Behind the Curtains
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whatfunk: Hidden in Plain Sight Pt. II
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Hinterheim: The Sun Never Lights
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whatfunk: Something is Following Us
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DASK: Arrival
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whatfunk: The Times We Had
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Yoshimasu Kamiya: Interlude Limbo
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Zimoun: 11
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Kecap Tuyul: 2
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*Note on Cambodian copyright: Cambodia did not have a copyright law until 2003. The fact that the country underwent a genocide meant that personnel, label info, recording dates etc were lost. Therefore specific information about the Golden Age of Cambodian pop is more often than not, missing.