August 2023: We present excerpts of an interview with Dan Hekate aka The Wirebug, there are two recent releases in the Praxis Digital Remix Series, Alex Buess has relaunched Skin & Speech Recordings, Controlled Weirdness presents his new podcast “Tales from a Disappearing City”, Stewart Home has a new book out and Sozialistischer Plattenbau has re-issued Kovert’s Hybrid Riddim.
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May 2022: We continue our discussions with Controlled Weirdness, this time about late 80s and early 90s New York City, topic of his article in datacide fourteen ‘Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain’.
Our regular night re:focus is back every first Thursday of the month at Lauschangriff, Berlin.
The new datacide web site is online now.
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The February 2022 edition of “The Molehill Report,” hosted by Christoph Fringeli, covers Praxis Records, Datacide Magazine, and related projects.
Highlights include a new digital release by Cortex, an interview with DJ Controlled Weirdness (Neil Keating) discussing 1980s London club and warehouse parties, and the announcement of Hekate Soundsystem’s 25th anniversary in Lyon. Fringeli emphasizes the mix of news, reviews, and interviews related to their music and cultural endeavors.
Controlled Weirdness’s Journeys in the Naked City – Adventures in New York Before the Rain, first published in Datacide Fourteen in 2015, where he describes his experiences in the old New York of the late 1980s and early 90s.
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È facile dimenticare in quest’epoca di feste che durano tutta la notte, di after-hours e bar notturni che c’è stato un tempo in cui tutti i locali chiudevano alle 2 del mattino. I primi anni Ottanta erano un periodo triste per uscire a far festa. La maggior parte delle discoteche erano spelonche troppo costose, dove per entrare si veniva scrutati dal personale della porta che controllava se il tuo aspetto era rispettabile. Per qualche oscuro motivo erano d’obbligo le scarpe bianche.
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