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Autonomous Astronauts at MayDay Rooms

The Association of Autonomous Astronauts (AAA), founded in 1995 with a symbolic balloon launch near Windsor Castle, was a radical, community-based experiment in space exploration and cultural resistance. Its 30th anniversary was marked in April 2025 at London’s MayDay Rooms, reflecting on the AAA’s legacy as an outernational network blending art, politics, music, and play. Through raves, three-sided football, and space-themed actions, the AAA critiqued corporate, military, and elite control of space—concerns that feel strikingly relevant amid today’s commercialization and militarization of space travel. Report by Neil Transpontine

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Ian Miley Obituary

A deeply personal tribute to Ian Miley, aka Blackmass Plastics—an uncompromising underground artist, DJ, and friend. Tracing his life from his teens through rave culture, free parties, Teknivals, and decades of fiercely original music-making, it portrays a restless, curious, and principled figure. Despite severe illness and physical decline, Ian’s creative drive never dimmed, expanding into synthesisers, sculpture, and design. His music—dark, stripped-back, and purposeful—remained rooted in the original rave spirit. He lived and created without compromise: a true underground soldier. Obituary by The Reverend

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Controlled Weirdness: You’re too Young to Remember the Eighties on YouTube.

You’re too Young to Remember the Eighties – Dancing in a Different Time is the title of an article CW wrote for Datacide Ten in 2008.

In November 2021 we sat down with hin and talked about the topics covered in the article and more: Underground clubs and warehouse parties in London in the early to mid 1980s, charting a hidden history of going out, DJing, electro, the rise of house music and the acid house phenomenon.

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