Neil Transpontine

Neil Transpontine April 5, 2011June 20, 2014 2 Comments Criminal Justice Act, drugs, gentrification, London, Media, Party, Surveillance, T, Teknival

Dance before the Police come

Shut Up and Dance’s 1991 hardcore LP ‘Dance Before the Police Come’ was released at a time when the UK

Alien Underground Articles

Neil Transpontine September 30, 2010July 12, 2014 0 Comments Alien Underground, History Is Made At Night, Jazz, Rave

All That Jazz (1995)

The powers restricting “raves” in the Criminal Justice Act are not the first authoritarian response to a dance-based culture. The

Articles Datacide 10 Datacide Issues

Neil Transpontine January 28, 2009April 9, 2024 2 Comments music theory, Teknival

A Loop Da Loop Era: Towards an (anti-)History of Rave

“The awareness that they are about to make the continuum of history explode is characteristic of the revolutionary classes at

Datacide is a magazine that covers experimental electronic music, from the avantgarde to hard dance music, its intersections with radical politics and counterculture, in-depth political and historical analysis and critique as well as experimental fiction, poetry and visual works. In each issue there is an extensive record review section as well as detailed book reviews, comics and news items.Datacide is not affiliated with or part of any specific political group but engages in a revolutionary critique that rejects the historically discredited strains of leftism associated with Social Democracy and Leninism, drawing instead on the rich heritage of dissident Marxism, libertarian communism and critical theory.Datacide is a critical voice in the increasingly irrational and rightward lurching 'posttruth' times of conspiratorial world views and identity politics.