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Techno: Hallucinating History! >>> part one: Joe Meek and Telstar

Joe Meek, a pioneering independent music producer, created the hit “Telstar” in 1962 using innovative techniques like overdubbing and echo in his home studio. Known for his experimental approach, he produced the avant-garde concept album *I Hear a New World*. Meek’s career ended tragically in 1967 when, plagued by paranoia and legal issues, he killed his landlady before taking his own life.

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Stewart Home Interview, Part One

Part 1 of our exclusive full length interview with author Stewart Home, conducted in November 2023 in London.

In this first part (of two) Stewart discusses the early years, producing SMILE magazine, writing his early fiction and publishing his first novel, Pure Mania, and historicising the post war Avant-garde with his 1988 book The Assault on Culture, Neoism, the 1990-1993 Art Strike and how it all lead to reading Hegel and watching Kung Fu Movies – and more!

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Obituary: Michel Roger aka Olivier – Historian and Activist of the Communist Left

Michel Roger, (born March 5, 1948), also known as Michel Olivier, historian of the left communist movement and militant in several organisations of the communist left since the late 60s, died July 3, 2024; with his books researching and detailing unknown aspects of the history of the communist left he made essential contributions to the history of the movement.

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Far-right Compact Magazine Banned

Today, the interior minister of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer and employing a clever multi-media strategy, it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.

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“Long Live Death!” – On Pasolini’s Salò (2024)

This text on Pasolini’s Salò first appeared something like 25 years ago in Datacide No.6. It was part of a sequence of texts on cinema which began with a piece on Alan Pakula’s Parallax View and ended in a text on Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
Here Howard Slater returns to and revives his psycho-social analysis of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

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The Electronic Disturbance Zone – Part 1

Following on from a talk/listening session given at the launch for Datacide 18 at Ridley Road Social Club in February 2020, Howard Slater expanded on the theme of the Electronic Disturbance Zone in the following work in progress.

General Outline: 0. Preamble (Sonic Theory, Pierre Schaeffer, EDZ at Dead by Dawn, techno and ambient) 1. Environment Recordings (Luc Ferrari, Murray Schafer) 2. Entity music (Walter Marchetti) 3. Drone (Eliane Radigue, Roland Kayn) 4. Aural collage (John Cage, Luc Ferrari, Industrial) 5. Studio Based Electronics (Stockhausen, Bernard Parmegiani ) 6. Live Electronic Improvisation (David Tudor, Morphogenesis etc) 7. Hybrids/ Heterogeneity (decategorisation)

Part 2 of this text will appear in the next issue of Datacide and will cover Drone through to Studio Based Electronics.

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