On the 23rd of November 2019 I ordered Sea of Love and Watching The Wheels by Simon Morris from Cargo Records. It was a pre-order. I had absolutely loved his previous book from Amphetamine Sulphate Press, but I couldn’t justify the huge postage cost from America. So I’d been obsessively checking their UK distributor most …
(now sold out) 60 page fanzine! In a bag! With: 8 page insert on anti-fascism and music! 2 full-colour Adolf Steg postcards! Degenerate Waves Badge! (Apologies for ridiculous overseas prices – these are because of the recently privatised UK Post Office). Also available from Electric Knife (London) and Praxis (Berlin) – both of which are …
Latest installment of this series of great anti-fascist noise/electronica/weird compilations. 16 acts have contributed tracks this time, including April Larson, Laica, elizabeth Veldon, dsic, stapperton and GRMMSK. As GRMMSK has said “some of the people/projects and their beliefs, NiO is opposed to, still haven’t fully understood that their ‘rebellious’ pose isn’t actually a statement against …
The London launch party was a lot of fun, with some great presentations and people. The magazine is out now. It includes a great interview I did with noise legend Nomex. Order from here or from the Praxis Shop. 76 pages. Datacide: Introduction Nemeton: Infiltration and Agent Provocateurs; Vision Tech; Endless War; Surveillance, Control and …
Fully supporting this new initiative… Noise In Opposition is a compilation of 24 artists from across the globe opposed to fascism, misogyny and prejudice. NiO totals nearly 3 hours of music across 31 tracks by people including Hacker Farm, Libbe Matz Gang, Elizabeth Veldon and The Implicit Order. Check http://noiseopposition.wordpress.com/ for the full background and …
Who says the music biz is dieing? Give the kids what they want and you can’t go wrong! All my copies of Libbe Matz Gang’s soon to be legendary “The First LMG EP” sold out within 24 hours. Please order direct from the good people at Libertatia Overseas Trading to avoid disappointment. Soon! Yesterday’s post …
Max Schaefer – Children of the Sun (Granta, 2010) I first read about this book the year before last over at Stewart Home’s blog. My interest was piqued as the subject matter was notorious gay neo-nazi skinhead Nicky Crane, who I’d previously written about here when his appearance in a Psychic TV video came to …
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Fanzine of the week #4 Available in print – and online as a free/donation pdf. (and from Amazon) “We demand that the goth scene be more than a black-clad reflection of mainstream society” I’ve written about goth on here before and it’s something that still appeals to me in many ways, although you’re unlikely to catch …
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Fanzine of the week #3 With 64 pages, this is the biggest issue of Datacide yet! It also includes a contribution from me. No time for an extensive review, but all of the material here is well up to the usual high standard. FEATURES Christoph Fringeli – “Hedonism and Revolution: The Barricade and the Dancefloor” Stewart …