UK trip-hop pioneers Large Assault have change into the most recent artist to drag their music from Spotify. They’re additionally taking part within the “No Music for Genocide” marketing campaign, which seeks to geo-block their music from streaming platforms in Israel.
The band defined their reasoning in an Instagram assertion addressing each Spotify’s enterprise practices and the Israel boycott:
“In mild of the (reported) vital investments by [Spotify’s] CEO in an organization producing navy munition drones & Al expertise built-in into fighter plane, Large Assault have made a separate request to our label that our music be faraway from the Spotify streaming service in all territories. In our view, the historic precedent of efficient artist motion throughout apartheid South Africa and the apartheid, warfare crimes and genocide now being dedicated by the state of Israel renders the ‘No Music For Genocide’ marketing campaign crucial. Within the separate case of Spotify, the financial burden that has lengthy been positioned on artists is now compounded by an ethical & moral burden, whereby the hard-earned cash of followers & the inventive endeavours of musicians finally funds deadly, dystopian applied sciences.”
Of their assertion, the group drew parallels between “No Music for Genocide” and previous activist actions, in addition to the present Movie Employees for Palestine marketing campaign:
“In 1991 the scourge of apartheid violence fell from South Africa, aided from a distance by public boycotts, protests, & the withdrawal of labor by artists, musicians and actors. Complicity with that state was thought-about unacceptable. In 2025 the identical now applies to the genocidal state of Israel. As of immediately, there’s a musician’s equal of the not too long ago introduced @filmworkers4palestine marketing campaign (signed by 4,500 filmmakers, actors, business employees & establishments) – it may be discovered @nomusicforgenocide & helps the broader asks of the rising @bds.motion . We’d attraction to all musicians to switch their disappointment, anger and inventive contributions right into a coherent, cheap & important motion to finish the unspeakable hell being visited upon the Palestinians hour after hour.”
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Large Assault have been significantly outspoken about their help for Palestine this 12 months. In July, they launched an artist alliance to help musicians dealing with business backlash for publicly talking out towards Israel’s navy actions in Gaza.
Their choice to go away Spotify follows related strikes by bands together with Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, who pulled their catalogs from the platform in response to reviews that CEO Daniel Ek is a boss of Helsing, a German firm specializing in AI navy software program.
Tonight, September 18th, they’ll be part of Kneecap at their Wembley Area present in London for a “particular audio/visible presentation.”