‘The function of the Legal Defense and Monitoring Group is to provide protection for demonstrators from police harassment. It came out of the Trafalgar Square Defendant’s Campaign and Poll Tax Prisoners Support Groupings who got together after the Poll Tax Riots and the idea came up of defending crowds against the cops fitting people up.’
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The record review section of Datacide 1 from 1997 includes reviews of many excellent and now classic records by the likes of Crystal Distortion, Biochip C., Nasty Habits, Dom & Roland, Ed Rush & Nico, Shizuo, Society of Unknowns, Test Tube Kid… and many more!
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The grim and gripping story of the first electric chair and much more. Power and progress embodied by the technological death machine, proving the emerging superpower to be one step ahead and more advanced than the rest of the world.
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we have to leave, that much is for certain. whether it’s part of the great plan or not, this island is terminal – so rat.
[after a mysterious tip (origin unknown) and finding myself rummaging around a dusty junkshop on an island within the ring-o-fire, i finally came across the material i had long suspected to exist – the true function of the Holy Grail.]
Press release text by Flint Michigan for Nomex’s Listener as Operator tape – originally in Datacide One 1997.
‘It is all reception. To listen is to go schizzy with possibility.’
After having spawned the early acid-house LPs of 808 State and the early crossover pop-techno of a Guy Called Gerald, Manchester hasn’t been noted for providing the scene with much to get excited about. But then the first VVM releases arrived… Flint Michigan’s appraisal of the second release ‘Privileged Frames for Reference’.
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Contribution by the London Psychogeographical Association to Datacide 1 – A review of Hans Jonas’s book The Gnostic Religion – and at the same time a critique of identity politics. Originally published in 1997.
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Some musings about the Manson Family and terrorism, based on the book Garbage People by John Gilmore and Ron Kenner (1971/1995).
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