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14/01/2025

Part 3 (of 3) of our full length interview with Stewart Home is now online on the Noise & Politics YouTube channel. In this third and last instalment Stewart talks about his non-linear fiction from the mid-90s to the present day, and more!

Part 3 of our full length exclusive interview with author Stewart Home, conducted in November 2023 in London.In this third and last part Stewart discusses hi...

08/01/2025

2024 from the Datacide perspective: Most read articles and most watched videos:

Our yearly run-down of the most read articles on the datacide site as well as the most watched videos on the Noise & Politics YouTube channel. This was 2024!

27/12/2024

Finally online on our Noise & Politics YouTube channel: part 2 (of 3) of the extensive interview with Stewart Home. This episode covers Kung Fu movies, Brucesploitation, Genre Theory, Glam and Punk Rock:

art 2 of our full length exclusive interview with author Stewart Home, conducted in November 2023 in London.In this second part (of three) Stewart discusses ...

19/12/2024

Introduction to and interview with writer Ronald Sukenick, whose novels play with form, notions of time and the very ‘idea’ of the novel just as their characters experiment with identity, place, power and relationships. By Howard Slater from Break/Flow 1, 1996.

ntroduction to the work of underground novelist Ronald Sukenick with an edited interview by Howard Slater from Break/Flow in 1996.

05/12/2024

Alexander Trocchi & Project Sigma is another major component of the 1996 first issue of Howard Slater's Break/Flow Magazine which we're in the process of adding in its entirety to the Datacide website.

While his name is sometimes associated with the "Beat Generation" and his early novel Young Adam was turned into a movie in 2003, it's his involvement with the Situationist International and his subsequent idea of a countercultural network he called Project Sigma that still remains 'sorely neglected' that is the most inspiring and influential to us.

Discover more about the Insurrection of a Million Minds in Howard's article and the attached documents here: https://datacide-magazine.com/alexander-trocchi-and-project-sigma/

13/11/2024

Joe Meek, a pioneering independent music producer, created the hit “Telstar” in 1962 using innovative techniques like overdubbing and echo in his home studio.

Known for his experimental approach, he produced the avant-garde concept album *I Hear a New World*.

Meek’s career ended tragically in 1967 when, plagued by paranoia and legal issues, he killed his landlady before taking his own life.

Read more in the article
Techno: Hallucinating History! >>> part one: Joe Meek and Telstar

by Flint Michigan from Break/Flow 1 (1996)
now on the Datacide site:

Techno: Hallucinating History! >>> part one: Joe Meek and Telstar is a short article by Flint Michigan on Joe Meek from Break/Flow 1 (1996)

10/11/2024

Very excited to be adding the contents of two historic issues of Break/Flow from 1996/99 to the datacide website. Previously unpublished material will follow. First major piece: On Anti-Oedipus: Schizo-politics for Scallies Part 0.0001 https://datacide-magazine.com/on-anti-oedipus-schizo-politics-for-scallies-part-0-0001/ A subversive assessment of Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus well worth (re-)reading. We also already posted a number of the shorter pieces from the first issue. More will follow in the next days!

On Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari subtitled Schizo-politics for Scallies from Break/Flow 1, 1996.

07/08/2024

Part 1 of our interview with Stewart Home which has been on the Noise & Politics Youtube channel for a little while is now available as a transcript (incl. of course the embedded video) on the Datacide website. Check it out! Part 2 coming shortly!

Interview with Stewart Home Part 1/2 - SMILE magazine, early fiction a and historicising the post war Avant-garde, Neoism, Art Strike and more

31/07/2024

https://datacide-magazine.com/michel-roger/

Obituary - Michel Roger, historian, author, publisher and activist of the communist left died July 3rd 2024.

27/07/2024

More from the Datacide archive: Interview with No-Tek form 1998 - plus we just added some nice scans of their early records - check it out:

Interview with the French hardcore music collective No-Tek from 1998 about their punk roots and experimental approach.

21/07/2024

Howard Slater's text on Pasolini’s Salo first appeared something like 25 years ago in Datacide No.6. It was part of a sequence of texts on cinema which began with a piece on Alan Pakula’s Parallax View and ended in a text on Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut.
Here Howard Slater returns to and revives his psycho-social analysis of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s last film Salò, or the 120 Days of S***m.

Howard Slater's review essay on Pier Paolo Paolini's Salò, or the 120 Days of S***m, where de Sade's novel is played out under Fascism.

16/07/2024

Today, the interior minster of Germany banned the far-right Compact Magazine in an unusual step.
Edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer it had become the most popular of an array of far-right publications seeking an “overthrow of the regime”.

Far right magazine Compact edited by former leftist Jürgen Elsässer banned by interior minister in Germany today.

15/07/2024

The last major article from the current issue 19 of Datacide is now online: Following on from a talk/listening session given at the launch for Datacide 18 at Ridley Road Social Club in February 2020, Howard Slater expanded on the theme of the Electronic Disturbance Zone in the following work in progress.

General Outline: 0. Preamble (Sonic Theory, Pierre Schaeffer, EDZ at Dead by Dawn, techno and ambient) 1. Environment Recordings (Luc Ferrari, Murray Schafer) 2. Entity music (Walter Marchetti) 3. Drone (Eliane Radigue, Roland Kayn) 4. Aural collage (John Cage, Luc Ferrari, Industrial) 5. Studio Based Electronics (Stockhausen, Bernard Parmegiani ) 6. Live Electronic Improvisation (David Tudor, Morphogenesis etc) 7. Hybrids/ Heterogeneity (decategorisation)

Part 2 of this text will appear in the next issue of Datacide and will cover Drone through to Studio Based Electronics.

Here's part 1:

Howard Slater's new article on Musique Concrète, Luc Ferrari and the Electronic Disturbance Zone from Datacide 19.

15/07/2024

The Wirebug's aka - Dan Hekate who is also a Datacide author - artist profile is up now over at the Praxis Records site. Check it out!

The Wirebug is a project by Dan Moss aka Dan Hekate for harder experimental broken beats on Praxis: this is his artist profile.

15/07/2024

From the Datacide archives: An article celebrating the then new speedcore from Mouse & No Name in the very first issue of Datacide (spring 1997):

Short article outlining the seismic change in French hardcore instigated by the Michelson sisters, Mouse and No Name.

20/06/2024

Full transcript of our interview with Joke Lanz / Sudden Infant - the video was published a few months ago on the Noise & Politics YouTube channel - is now available to read on our website and includes some additional images (and of course the embed of the vid). Check it out:

Full Interview with Joke Lanz about his beginnings in the Punk scene in Switzerland in the 1980s, the birth of his son and the early years of the Sudden Infant project and Schimpfluch Gruppe. From …

16/06/2024

The Almanac for Noise & Politics Volume Two - originally from 2016 with key features about Nomex, the legendary noise artist, an exposé of right wing sub-cultural strategies, critiques of the anti-Imperialist left as well as of anarchism, and a look back on the Vision label (1986-1992), the precursor of Praxis, is now available as a free eBook for Datacide subscribers or for a donation.
https://datacide-magazine.com/subscribe