Messages to the Majors – Break/Flow 1 – Record Reviews (1996)
Titled Messages to the Majors these are the record reviews from Break/Flow 1, mostly written by Flint Michigan and a couple by Christoph Fringeli – and one by Michel Foucault!
Read MoreTitled Messages to the Majors these are the record reviews from Break/Flow 1, mostly written by Flint Michigan and a couple by Christoph Fringeli – and one by Michel Foucault!
Read MoreFollowing 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.
Read MoreRecord reviews by Nemeton from Datacide 19 feature new releases by Minion, Pansophia, Maria W Horn & Mats Erlandsson, Katran, Kindohm, Otto von Schirach & Qebrus, and Anodyne.
Read MoreRecord reviews by Christoph Fringeli from Datacide 19 feat. new releases on vinyl by GRMMSK, Gwakaï, The DJ Producer, Scorn, HFK, KK Null/Dot Product, R-Zac, Taciturne, C Mantle as well as compilations from Stirpe999 and Sozialistischer Plattenbau.
Read MoreChristoph Fringeli’s record reviews from Datacide Eighteen feat. releases by No Name, The Mover, FFF, Max Durante, Toysfornoise and more.
Read MoreLow Entropy record reviews from Datacide 18, written in 2019, feat. Current 909, Patric Catani, Umwelt, Drvg Cvltvre, Taciturne, The Mover.
Read MorePicking up again on Félix Guattari’s notion of ‘post media’, Howard Slater here explores the liberating aspects of the Third Cinema of such directors as Djibril Diop Mambéty and Med Hondo. Drawing on the writings of Teshome Gabriel this text reveals Third Cinema as being an ever-valid challenge to mainstream Western notions of the cinema as a conditioning monoform.
Read MoreMichael Moynihan has gained a reputation as an intellectual despite his association with fascist and occult circles. He collaborates with other fascist artists, publishes fascist-leaning works, and promotes extremist ideologies. One of Moynihan’s key contribution is publishing ‘Siege’ by James Mason, a collection advocating violence, racial hatred, and revolutionary nihilism, promoting Charles Manson as a new Führer.
Read MoreRecord Reviews by Controlled Weirdness in Datacide 16, 2017, feat. Murray CY, Jorge Velez, First Class, DJ Haus, Karen Gwyer and more.
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