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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Interview with Mark Newlands of Bloody Fist Records from Newcastle Australia with questions asked by Christoph Fringeli of Praxis/Datacide conducted in London in 1997.
“As for our position in the hardcore scene, I don’t know, and I’m not really that interested in keeping a check on that; we do what we do, and if that means we’re stuck off in a corner away from everyone else, then fine. If people are into it, if they think it’s good and it’s a worthwhile label then even better, but it’s not something we consciously work towards.”
Interview from 1997 with Joel Bevacqua aka Deadly Buda about the early years of the rave scene in the United States and his journey from graffiti artist to hardcore DJ.
About hard techno and raves in the smaller cities of the continent as well as issues of record production and distribution.
Interview with techno-activist/theorist Konrad Becker from Public Netbase/t0 from Vienna, conducted in February 1997 and first published in Datacide Two.
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‘The function of the Legal Defense and Monitoring Group is to provide protection for demonstrators from police harassment. It came out of the Trafalgar Square Defendant’s Campaign and Poll Tax Prisoners Support Groupings who got together after the Poll Tax Riots and the idea came up of defending crowds against the cops fitting people up.’
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“Die Karten werden neu gemischt!”. Interview mit Christoph Fringeli von Praxis Records in Frontpage Magazine Januar 1995 geführt von Joel Amaretto. Über den neuen techno hardcore Untergrund.
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Interview from 1995 with Patric Catani as his mid-90s industrial hardcore alter ego, Test Tube Kid, offering great insights in the activities of the German hardcore and Digital Hardcore scenes at the time. Plus observations on Gabber, the Love Parade as a festival of conformity and Berlin as the metropolis of the new sound!
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