The record industry is in the process of being outflanked by means of the very processes that it has come to rely upon. Since the 60s its continual efforts to create new needs has meant that it nurtured an everchanging musical soundscape that is now mutating at such a pace that it cannot keep track long enough to harness these musical evolutions in the direction of profit.
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One area of electronic dance music that doesn’t seem to be being explored is a more fucked up and experimental use of the slow-break. Force Inc.’s Electric Ladyland series is an exception and one of its frequent contributors, 4-E, has been plying this approach over a series of releases.
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Uniformity breeds content breeds conformity… What were the 80s? What was 80s music? When D’Arcangelo throw an acoustic psychogeographical spanner into the works everyone behaves like Pavlov’s dogs. I’m told that one side of their ep is “a joke” or “a waste of time”, that I should go for the noise side and ignore the other.
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‘Darkness can be panoramic and searing enough to provide sufficient space for emotions other than those that are socially-sanctioned and saccharine. Satisfaction is not exhilarating… the attainable is uninteresting: at the end of Taxi Driver what are we to make of Travis Bickle’s glance into the rear-view mirror?’
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All the record reviews from Datacide Two with many classic tunes by the likes of Mouse, Burning Lazy Persons, Brutal Chud, Widerstand, Ambush, Bloody Fist, S.O.D.O.M., Explore Toi and many more! Reviews by the border fox, Christoph Fringeli, Eun, Nomex, The Reverend and more.
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The Spanner case started in 1987 when the Manchester police, through their large scale “Operation Spanner”, seized a number of videos of sado-masochistic activities involving a large group of gay men, and became a landmark case in the 1990s where consensual sadomasochistic activities were criminalised.
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Are seemingly accidental deaths in police custody random killings meant to spread terror in the population?
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Gnosticism fundamentally opposes Greek and Christian concepts of time, presenting it as abrupt and revolutionary, instead of continuous or leading to redemption. Chris Lehman critiques the modern cultural use of Gnostic ideas, particularly by figures like Greil Marcus, arguing it fosters historical amnesia and trivializes resistance. He highlights the dangers of reducing complex histories to personal, symbolic gestures controlled by consumer capitalism.
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Interview with techno-activist/theorist Konrad Becker from Public Netbase/t0 from Vienna, conducted in February 1997 and first published in Datacide Two.
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