Re-incarnated in print form and collecting essays and texts by Howard Slater from 97-99, ( only a couple of which had been previously published in Autotoxicity), this edition is almost a book. Despite the disparate subject matter a kind of narrative unfolds tracing the “foretaste of freedom in those unexpunged communications that music and literature make tangible”
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Minimal Apertures is an addendum to the article The Western by Howard Slater with short remarks about The Wild Bunch, Once Upon A Time in the West, Winchester 73, McAbe and Mrs Miller, Ulzana’s Raid and El Topo.
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Interview with the French hardcore music collective No-Tek from 1998 about their eclectic post-punk approach towards fast and hard electronic music, their DIY ethic and the “unconscious idealism” of bringing breakbeats into the hardcore sound.
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Review article on releases from the Mille Plateaux label from 1998. With music we can change the world; subtle changes of perception, shifting an outlook that can no longer be solidified, coherent or self-orienting. We turn instead to an outside: a large window… several horizons… adjectives and vision absconding through red solarised trees.
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Peter Edwards: the endless short story – a six year loop [emailorder tape] concept and review by Eddie Miller aka Flint Michigan.
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A 20 minute long studio dabble from New Order recorded as a test for Blue Monday but shifted to the role of Hacienda video soundtrack finds here its first vinyl release. An intriguing track that marked the onset of a recombinant disco music shot through with a waning punk ethos.
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unique citizenship realized and spiced higher essence that pales only before the sun of the cadence of speech. caffeine linguist. having carefully edited sect tone with line which extends to the separate reels, he was about to play thee of them;is supplike all the other recorder and stepped back from the tator of the pelvis. it escapes a fevered voice croaking its gibberish then fought it down…
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The full record review section from Datacide 4 feat. Ript Skin, Photic Driver, Somatic Responses, New Skin, Mille Plateaux, V/Vm, Fifth Era, Optical… and many many more – in other words an amazing array of classic breakcore, experimental broken beats, hardcore, drum’n’bass, and conceptual noise!
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Transgressions – A Journal of Urban Exploration appeared in 5 issues published by teh Geography Department of the University of Newcastle England in the mid-late 90s. Edited by Alastair Bonnett. Review Editor was Fabian Tompsett. This is a short review of issue 5 which appeared in Datacide 5.
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