An interview Justin Mitchell and I did with Coil in 1991 appears in Nick Soulsby’s lavish Everything Keeps Dissolving: Conversations with Coil. The cliche with interview collections or “XXXX in their own words” books is that they are a cynical cut and paste job to appeal to the fans. Nothing could be further from the …
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Upping the ante from podcasts, a few people I like are doing regular short video mags: The Molehill Report is from the Praxis Records / Datacide magazine stable, with updates on their releases, footage of their artists and some great interviews about underground dance and experimental music culture. There are three episodes so far: On …
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 …
GRMMSK has worked hard on putting together this great compilation of radical musicians, noisicians etc in aid of Anarchist Black Cross Helsinki. It’s available as a download or two cassettes: https://totstellen-grmmsk.bandcamp.com/album/solidarity-is-our-weapon-against-all-prisons Contributors include comrades like GX Jupitter-Larsen, Dave Phillips, Libbe Matz Gang, Kek-W, Concrete/Field, stapperton, and many more. GRMMSK himself contributes a doom dub track …
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I am very very proud to have a track included on the “We Saw Human Guinea Pigs Explode” compilation which has been released today: WE SAW HUMAN GUINEA PIGS EXPLODE by Various The Cutwail label is a subsidiary of the unpredictable Libertatia Overseas Trading mob. Actually I’m slightly staggered to be in there alongside Ceramic …
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I neglected to give the new issue of Datacide enough praise on here because my own zine came out at the same time. It should go without saying that’s it’s great and you should support the magazine by buying a copy or even subscribing. (London people can pick up copies from Electric Knife or Housmans.) Much (but …
(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 …
Grmmsk on vinyl GRMMSK – cyaan go back (unfrei, 2013) from grm on Vimeo. “This is another doomdub-resurrection ov the still undead punk genre. similar to the evolution ov zombie’s mobility in movies these days, on the collaboration ‘müllGRMM TÜTEsk’ you’ll find not only slow motion crawling and staggering, but also rather aggressive and hectic …
Introduction to the piece: Nomex should need no introduction to Datacide readers, but here goes anyway. One of the organisers of the seminal “Dead by Dawn” parties held in the mid nineties at Brixton’s 121 Centre, Nomex contributed visuals, abstract/harsh performances and much more besides. His releases on his own Adverse label have included everything …
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 …