Alexis Wolton, Author at Datacide

Articles Datacide Books

Alexis Wolton March 15, 2016March 15, 2016 0 Comments Almanac, Vinyl

Vinyl Meltdown (Version)

Music represents at once the immediate manifestation of impulse and the locus of its taming (Adorno; 288) We don’t sell

Articles Datacide 14

Alexis Wolton December 15, 2014December 15, 2014 0 Comments MP3, Napster, Vinyl

Vinyl Meltdown: Side B

0 Part 1 in Datacide 13 set out the dialectical character of noise, arguing that distribution media can be used

Articles Datacide 13

Alexis Wolton May 16, 2014May 16, 2014 1 Comment Kovert, Music Industry, muzak, politics, Vinyl

Vinyl Meltdown

In the first of two parts, the dialectic of noise as both pacifier and intensifier is set against the ongoing

Articles Datacide 11 Datacide Issues

Alexis Wolton March 26, 2011May 16, 2022 4 Comments London, Media, Pirate Radio

Tortugan tower blocks? Pirate signals from the margins

1. Talented performers belong to the industry long before it displays them On 16 June 2010 after sixteen years of

Articles Datacide 10 Datacide Issues

Alexis Wolton January 28, 2009August 21, 2014 1 Comment Media, music theory, Party, Pirate Radio, Rave, Technology, Teknival

Teknival and the emancipatory potential of technology

This text is based on a talk given at the One-shot Art Festival in Berlin, October 2007 as part of

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.