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Author: Flint Michigan

1996ArticlesBreak/Flow 1Record Reviews
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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.

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1995Alien Underground 0.1Book Reviews
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Kroker/Weinstein: Data Trash Book Review (1995)

For Kroker, the hype around the info highway etc is the way which bodies are drawn into cyber-space through the seduction of empowerment. The virtual class are those that would formerly be called technocrats and are they that have a vested interest in virtualising more and more aspects of existence’ A critique by Flint Michigan.

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Critical Art Ensemble: The Electronic Disturbance (Autonomedia, 1994)

In “The Electronic Disturbance,” Critical Art Ensemble explores resistance in the technological age, emphasizing the concept of “liquescence” and the elusive nature of modern power. They advocate for electronic resistance against privatized public spaces, or “bunkers,” and propose small, non-hierarchical groups using technology to create impactful, coordinated acts of civil disobedience. Book review by Flint Michigan.

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1998Datacide 4Record Reviews
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MEANS FROM AN END – on recent Mille Plateaux releases

Review article on releases from the Mille Plateaux label from 1998. With music we can change the world; subtle changes of perception, shifting an outlook that can no longer be solidified, coherent or self-orienting. We turn instead to an outside: a large window… several horizons… adjectives and vision absconding through red solarised trees.

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