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The Reverend December 14, 2025December 29, 2025 0 Comments Blackmass Plastics, Drum'n'Bass, Dubstep, Hekate Sound System, Rave

Ian Miley Obituary

A deeply personal tribute to Ian Miley, aka Blackmass Plastics—an uncompromising underground artist, DJ, and friend. Tracing his life from his teens through rave culture, free parties, Teknivals, and decades of fiercely original music-making, it portrays a restless, curious, and principled figure. Despite severe illness and physical decline, Ian’s creative drive never dimmed, expanding into synthesisers, sculpture, and design. His music—dark, stripped-back, and purposeful—remained rooted in the original rave spirit. He lived and created without compromise: a true underground soldier. Obituary by The Reverend

Articles Book Reviews Datacide 15

Neil Transpontine March 28, 2017November 25, 2025 0 Comments Club Culture, Fiction, Rave

‘These days are not to be missed’ – 1990s Rave and Club Culture in Fiction

Nights out dancing, for all their intensity, leave few visible traces. Immersed in a multi sensory environment of noise, lights,

1994 2014 Articles Datacide 13

Neil Transpontine April 7, 2014July 19, 2024 11 Comments 1994 Criminal Justice Act, Advance Party, Castlemorton, Daily Mail, Media, Rave, Socialist Workers Party, Squatting, Surveillance, Technology, Travellers

Revolt of the Ravers – The Movement against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain 1993-95

Revolt of the Ravers – The Movement against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain 1993-95 is a look back at the grassroots campaigns against the then new Criminal Justice Bill which became the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 and specifically targeted travellers, squatters and ravers.

Datacide 13 Events

datacide October 28, 2013October 29, 2013 0 Comments Datacide, Jason Skeet, Party, Rave, Tzii, Yann Keller, Zombieflesheater

Pics from Datacide Launch in Berlin, Pt. 2 (Party)

Some pictures of the party taking place at the Datacide Thirteen launch event in Berlin on October 12, 2013 –

Book Reviews Datacide 12 Interviews

datacide December 20, 2012January 29, 2024 0 Comments Bert Random, Bristol, Neil Transpontine, Party, Rave, Spannered

Spannered – Bert Random interviewed by Neil Transpontine

‘Spannered’ is a fictionalised account of the free party scene, spanning a lost weekend in the mid-1990s. In this conversation

Alien Underground Articles

Neil Transpontine September 30, 2010July 12, 2014 0 Comments Alien Underground, History Is Made At Night, Jazz, Rave

All That Jazz (1995)

The powers restricting “raves” in the Criminal Justice Act are not the first authoritarian response to a dance-based culture. The

1994 Alien Underground Articles

datacide September 26, 2010January 10, 2025 1 Comment 1994 Criminal Justice Act, Alien Underground, Free Party, Rave, Squatting, Travellers

Fight The Criminal Justice Bill (1994)

A double page spread in the first issue of Alien Underground dealt with the (then) threat of the new Criminal Justice Bill (which was to become law in as the 1994 Criminal Justice Act shortly after with minor alterations) in three sections. The first was more of an opinion piece, the second a brief rundown of central sections of the law, the third a report on (then) recent protests. Published in 1994 in Alien Underground 0.0

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