Electronically composed sound, communally celebrated has the effect of some collective plateau phase. Music becomes a device, a prosthetics that leads to a hypersensitization – an overspill that establishes a field of flow between listeners.
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Whilst those of us in the UK were being deluded by the rise of ‘intelligent techno’, a pocket of resistance arose in the Hague through the activities of the Acid Planet parties and the Bunker label: Unit Moebius, Interr-ference, Rude 66, Sulphur Surfer…
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A short article from Datacide 1 which for the first time was writing about the developments of French speedcore in general and more specifically about the emerging work of the Michelson sisters, who were in the process of changing the hardcore narrative.
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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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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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