Datacide Issues Archives

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.

1999 2024 Articles Datacide 6 Film Reviews Online Exclusive

Howard Slater July 15, 2024August 7, 2024 0 Comments fascism, Pier Paolo Pasolini

“Long Live Death!” – On Pasolini’s Salò (2024)

This text on Pasolini’s Salò first appeared something like 25 years ago in Datacide No.6. It was part of a sequence of texts on cinema which began with a piece on Alan Pakula’s Parallax View and ended in a text on Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
Here Howard Slater returns to and revives his psycho-social analysis of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

2023 Datacide 19

Howard Slater June 24, 2024July 17, 2024 0 Comments Dead By Dawn, Electronic Disturbance Zone, Luc Ferrari, music theory, Nomex, Walter Marchetti

The Electronic Disturbance Zone – Part 1

Following on from a talk/listening session given at the launch for Datacide 18 at Ridley Road Social Club in February 2020, Howard Slater expanded on the theme of the Electronic Disturbance Zone in the following work in progress.

General Outline: 0. Preamble (Sonic Theory, Pierre Schaeffer, EDZ at Dead by Dawn, techno and ambient) 1. Environment Recordings (Luc Ferrari, Murray Schafer) 2. Entity music (Walter Marchetti) 3. Drone (Eliane Radigue, Roland Kayn) 4. Aural collage (John Cage, Luc Ferrari, Industrial) 5. Studio Based Electronics (Stockhausen, Bernard Parmegiani ) 6. Live Electronic Improvisation (David Tudor, Morphogenesis etc) 7. Hybrids/ Heterogeneity (decategorisation)

Part 2 of this text will appear in the next issue of Datacide and will cover Drone through to Studio Based Electronics.