Shadowing Conceptual Art and Fluxus, Walter Marchetti is perhaps one of those many involutionary figures who have stealthily stepped only at the edges of an institutional recognition. Howard Slater approaches the subversive composer in this article from Datacide 8, originally published in 2002.
Read MoreElectronica as a scene has coagulated primarily as a media concern – in that the media itself needed to bolster
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Read MoreOn September 11, 2001, 8.45 am, an American Airlines plane with 92 passengers on board crashed into the north tower
Read MoreIn the border country They’ve done it all We kept watch As they smashed the wall Swell Maps, “Border Country”
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Released in late July, 2008 Pencilbreak is the first art/design book specifically dedicated to the visual elements of breakcore. Book review by Nemeton for Datacide 10.
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Double book review by Stewart Home from Datacide Eight. Leslie’s Marxist reading of Benjamin contrasts sharply with Olson’s anti-Marxist take on comedy. Leslie, a British Socialist Workers Party activist, seeks to reclaim Benjamin for Trotskyism, critiquing both philosophical appropriations of Benjamin and the cult around him. Olson, an old-fashioned liberal with anarchist leanings, critiques the shift from a classical to a neo-Marxist literary canon, though his grasp of Marxism is flawed. While Olson’s work lacks Leslie’s rigor, both books offer corrective insights when read together, illustrating the tensions between politics, aesthetics, and ideology.
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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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