Before Pakula made his well known All the Presidents Men, a film which centres directly on the Watergate debacle, he made The Parallax View, a film which expands the ‘private’ scenario of Klute into a wider social setting and which makes links between government, corporations and the assassinations of the 60s at the same time that it self-reflexively draws further attention to the power-wielding manipulations inherent in mainstream cinema.
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Interview with Mark Newlands of Bloody Fist Records from Newcastle Australia with questions asked by Christoph Fringeli of Praxis/Datacide conducted in London in 1997.
“As for our position in the hardcore scene, I don’t know, and I’m not really that interested in keeping a check on that; we do what we do, and if that means we’re stuck off in a corner away from everyone else, then fine. If people are into it, if they think it’s good and it’s a worthwhile label then even better, but it’s not something we consciously work towards.”
A short book review of Mind Invaders – A Reader in Psychic Warfare, Cultural Sabotage and Semiotic Terrorism, an anthology edited by Stewart Home and published by Serpent’s Tail in 1997.
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Trocchi – The Transversalist is a book review of A Life in Pieces – Reflections on Alexander Trocchi, a biography
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In London in the first half of 1997, Weimar Germany came back to London with a discreet vengeance. Dr.Hans Prinzhorn’s ‘Art of the Insane’ (collected 1919-1922) at the Hayward Gallery, George Grosz at the Royal Academy, Marlene Dietrich – the West End musical, and August Sander’s ‘exact’ photography at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Extensive record review section from Datacide 3 provides further evidence on just how many great records came out in that period. Much hardcore, breakcore, drum’n’bass and experimental stuff reviewed by the border fox, Dan Hekate, Christoph Fringeli, Flint Michigan, Nomex, Scud and more!
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Interview from 1997 with Joel Bevacqua aka Deadly Buda about the early years of the rave scene in the United States and his journey from graffiti artist to hardcore DJ.
About hard techno and raves in the smaller cities of the continent as well as issues of record production and distribution.
Perpetual Commotion is a text on and with Critical Art Ensemble and the concept of Electronic Civil Disobedience by Matt Fuller from Datacide 3, autumn 1997.
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The Assessor is an incorporeal being with a love of the severe and disturbing. Possessing immense strength, it has a mind as sharp as a scalpel, ever ready to dissect what comes its way. THE ASSESSOR assesses from afar and sometimes communicates to humans, yet it is rarely reduced to using words as it is now. If provoked it is lethal.
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