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1996 Break/Flow 1 Interviews

Flint Michigan October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 0 Comments Acid Planet, Bunker Records, Electro, The Hague

Mixed Up in The Hague: Sewersounds of the 90s

An introduction to the scene of The Hague in the mid-90s by Flint Michigan with a short interview he conducted with Interr-Ference from Acid Planet for Break/Flow in 1996.

1996 Break/Flow 1

Flint Michigan October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 0 Comments Record Review

Review the Review – plan sonore

A critical view on what a review could and should be… by Flint Michigan from Break/Flow 1.

1996 Break/Flow 1

Christoph Fringeli October 2, 2024October 2, 2024 0 Comments Network 23, Spiral Tribe

Network 23 (from Break/Flow 1, 1996)

An early review article from Break/Flow 1 (1996) about the underground record label and distribution operation Network 23, set up by members of Spiral Tribe in 1994.

1996 Articles Break/Flow 1 Record Reviews

BreakFlow September 18, 2024September 18, 2024 0 Comments Christoph de Babalon, Electro, Record Review, Somatic Responses, Underground Resistance

Messages to the Majors – Break/Flow 1 – Record Reviews (1996)

Titled Messages to the Majors these are the record reviews from Break/Flow 1, mostly written by Flint Michigan and a couple by Christoph Fringeli – and one by Michel Foucault!

1996 Articles Break/Flow 1 Record Reviews

Flint Michigan September 10, 2024September 10, 2024 0 Comments Joe Meek, Techno

Techno: Hallucinating History! >>> part one: Joe Meek and Telstar

Joe Meek, a pioneering independent music producer, created the hit “Telstar” in 1962 using innovative techniques like overdubbing and echo in his home studio. Known for his experimental approach, he produced the avant-garde concept album *I Hear a New World*. Meek’s career ended tragically in 1967 when, plagued by paranoia and legal issues, he killed his landlady before taking his own life.

1996 Articles Break/Flow Break/Flow 1

BreakFlow August 30, 2024August 30, 2024 0 Comments Anarchism, Cyberculture, Félix Guattari, Situationism, techno zines

Autonomous, Palpable and Pulpable (1996)

Print reviews from the first edition of Break/Flow from 1996, featuring Degenerative Prose, Erik Belgum, Asger Jorn, the state of British anarchism, TEchnoscience and Cyberculture, Félix Guattari and a techno zine round up.

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datacide August 7, 2024October 11, 2024 0 Comments Art Strike, Neoism, Noise & Politics, Stewart Home

Stewart Home Interview, Part One

Part 1 of our exclusive full length interview with author Stewart Home, conducted in November 2023 in London.

In this first part (of two) Stewart discusses the early years, producing SMILE magazine, writing his early fiction and publishing his first novel, Pure Mania, and historicising the post war Avant-garde with his 1988 book The Assault on Culture, Neoism, the 1990-1993 Art Strike and how it all lead to reading Hegel and watching Kung Fu Movies – and more!

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Christoph Fringeli July 27, 2024July 31, 2024 0 Comments Communist Left, International Communist Current, International Communist Tendency, Ni patrie ni frontières

Obituary: Michel Roger aka Olivier – Historian and Activist of the Communist Left

Michel Roger, (born March 5, 1948), also known as Michel Olivier, historian of the left communist movement and militant in several organisations of the communist left since the late 60s, died July 3, 2024; with his books researching and detailing unknown aspects of the history of the communist left he made essential contributions to the history of the movement.

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Christoph Fringeli July 16, 2024September 11, 2024 0 Comments antifa, Compact Magazine, Far Right, fascism, Media, Neo-Nazis, Verfassungsschutz

Far-right Compact Magazine Banned

Today, the interior minister of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.