Interview from 1995 with Patric Catani as his mid-90s industrial hardcore alter ego, Test Tube Kid, offering great insights in the activities of the German hardcore and Digital Hardcore scenes at the time. Plus observations on Gabber, the Love Parade as a festival of conformity and Berlin as the metropolis of the new sound!
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Teknival was started by Spiral Tribe in the Summer of 1993 as free festivals of techno music and art. This article by Mark Spiral (aka Mark Angelo Harrison) describes the attempt by a commercial record distributor to “copyright” the term Teknival, but more importantly looks into other pitfalls of marketing underground culture, including the now legendary Network 23.
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The security camera is slotted into the space left by an omniscient god. But this is a deity that’s had to downgrade its ambitions and if god is love, this one has a corner of a shopping centre as the object of its unrelenting devotion. Surveillance is the maintenance of the mundane, of business as usual: of flow control and correct deportment.
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Electronically composed sound, communally celebrated has the effect of some collective plateau phase. Music becomes a device, a prosthetics that leads to a hypersensitization – an overspill that establishes a field of flow between listeners.
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Whilst those of us in the UK were being deluded by the rise of ‘intelligent techno’, a pocket of resistance arose in the Hague through the activities of the Acid Planet parties and the Bunker label: Unit Moebius, Interr-ference, Rude 66, Sulphur Surfer…
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A short article from Datacide 1 which for the first time was writing about the developments of French speedcore in general and more specifically about the emerging work of the Michelson sisters, who were in the process of changing the hardcore narrative.
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The record review section of Datacide 1 from 1997 includes reviews of many excellent and now classic records by the likes of Crystal Distortion, Biochip C., Nasty Habits, Dom & Roland, Ed Rush & Nico, Shizuo, Society of Unknowns, Test Tube Kid… and many more!
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Press release text by Flint Michigan for Nomex’s Listener as Operator tape – originally in Datacide One 1997.
‘It is all reception. To listen is to go schizzy with possibility.’
After having spawned the early acid-house LPs of 808 State and the early crossover pop-techno of a Guy Called Gerald, Manchester hasn’t been noted for providing the scene with much to get excited about. But then the first VVM releases arrived… Flint Michigan’s appraisal of the second release ‘Privileged Frames for Reference’.
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