Still missing Simon Morris

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 …

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Turbulent Times issue 10 now out!

(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 …

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Noise In Opposition Volume 2

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 …

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Datacide issue 13 now available

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 …

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Noise In Opposition compilation

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 …

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Children of the Sun – Nicky Crane: the novel!

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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Graceless: a journal of the radical gothic

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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Datacide issue 11

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 …

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