2016 Archives - Datacide

2016 Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016

Jo Burzynska May 18, 2021July 6, 2024 2 Comments Adverse, Dead By Dawn, Noise, Nomex, Praxis, Trocante Gramofony E.P.

Nomex: A Life in Full Frequency

When selecting an alias for his artistic persona, Paul Kidd chose the name of the flame resistant material, Nomex. A protective shield suggesting indestructability, it appeared an apt moniker for someone who liked to “keep it cryptic” and push the limits of both his art and in his own life with an intense fervour. For those of us who knew the man behind the name, that this great force has been extinguished is hard to comprehend. However, his music endures.

2016 Audio YouTube

datacide April 16, 2019July 8, 2024 0 Comments 2016, Datacide fundraiser, Dimentia, Køpi, Mixcloud

Dimentia live at Detonal, Køpi 2016

Dimentia live at Køpi Berlin 2016 is finally online! The great set by Dimentia at the 2016 fundraiser for Datacide at Køpi in Berlin. 27-08-2016. Full set now on the Noise & Politics YouTube channel.

2016 Articles Datacide 16 Press Reviews

Christoph Fringeli June 19, 2017December 24, 2024 0 Comments Alliance for Workers' Liberty, AWL, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone, Naz Shah, North Korea, Socialist Worker, Solidarity, SWP, The New Worker, The Red Flag

Far-Left Press Coverage of the 2016 Anti-Semitism Row in the Labour Party and other Leftist Groups

“When Hitler won his election in 1932, his policy then was that Jews should be moved to Israel. He was supporting Zionism before he went mad and ended up killing six million Jews.”
This curious statement by Ken Livingstone from 2016 caused a scandal. This article looks at how the far left press reacted to it.

2016 Articles Datacide 16

Matthew Hyland May 4, 2017December 24, 2024 0 Comments 2016, Brexit, Proletariat, United Kingdom, Working Class

Notes from Non-Existence – Brexit vs. the Proletariat

Jay Gould may or may not actually have said ‘I can hire half of the working class to kill the other half’, but the proprietors of the UK have tested the theory successfully with their EU referendum. Not that you would know it from reading the Guardian, the Financial Times or even, sad to say, Counterpunch and the rest of the Left-wing blogobubble, where a chorus of Influencers is celebrating the 18th Brumaire of Nigel Farage.

1988 2016 Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 Articles

Alex Buess April 24, 2017January 22, 2025 0 Comments Alex Buess, Human Skin Drum, Menschenhauttrommel, Praxis, Vision

Die Menschenhauttrommel (The Human Skin Drum, 1988)

Die Menschenhauttrommel (The Human Skin Drum) was first published in Flash Team Report (Vision 18) and reprinted in the Almanac for Noise & Politics 2016 as a companion piece to the article about the Vision label and to show a connection to the present, namely the release of ‘Skin Craft’ – RIND & NOL, and other works by Alex Buess.

2010 2016 Datacide 15 Interviews

Adrian Mengay and Maike Pricelius April 1, 2017November 10, 2024 3 Comments Abbie Hoffman, Ben Morea, Black Mask, counterculture, Critical Theory, Franz Neumann, Herbert Marcuse, Osha Neumann, Situationism, Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, Weather Underground

Interview with Osha Neumann: Up Against the Wall Motherfucker and the 60s Counterculture

Osha Neumann, son of Franz Neumann and stepson of Herbert Marcuse, member of the Motherfuckers; lawyer, artist, and author of the book Up Against the Wall Motherf**ker. A Memoir of the ‘60s, with Notes for Next Time. Interviewed by Adrian Mengay and Maike Pricelius in 2010, first published in datacide fifteen in 2016.