The text of a spoken word performance by Joke Lanz (of Sudden Infant fame), originally performed at a Datacide event in 2018 in Berlin, explores autobiographical impressions combined with poetry and sound.
Here you’ll find the full text, with embedded video of the performance and an exclusive collage by Joke Lanz.
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Excerpt from Ian Trowell’s new book Throbbing Gristle – An Endless Discontent, published by Intellect Books, details the first gig Throbbing Gristle played north of London in 1978, at the Wakefield Industrial Training College. Uncanny overlaps of TGs touring and the Yorkshire Ripper’s killing spree emerge.
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Human pyramid is a distinctive feature of the Italian gabber scene. Some of his initiates known locally as “Hardcore Warriors” started to rise up shoulders upon shoulders, deltoid upon deltoid until the strongest of the group touched the ceiling of the club. And in this very moment lights were back, the night was OOVVVEEERRR.
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The rocks and soil above his head rumbled and shook. He looked upwards; shafts of light pierced the darkness. There was nowhere below him, what had been his home was now a pile of debris and death. Above him lay the bright lands, the hairy two legs and their infernal contraptions. His huge arms powered him upwards, there was only forwards.
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Ed Gillett’s book ‘Party Lines – Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain’, published by Picador in 2023, reviewed by Neil Transpontine.
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News items concerning surveillance, control and repression compiled by Nemeton for the print edition #19 of Datacide include increased police powers in France, “domestic terrorism” charges in the US, and the trial of activist Toby Shone in the UK.
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Record reviews by Nemeton from Datacide 19 feature new releases by Minion, Pansophia, Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson, Katran, Kindohm, Otto von Schirach & Qebrus, and Anodyne.
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It’s been five years since the last Radical Bookfair! Datacide takes part in the London Radical Book Fair 2023 at Goldsmiths University with a stall and presents its new issue 19.
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Record reviews by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 19 feat. new releases on vinyl by GRMMSK, Gwakaï, The DJ Producer, Scorn, HFK, KK Null/Dot Product, R-Zac, Taciturne, C Mantle as well as compilations from Stirpe999 and Sozialistischer Plattenbau.
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