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Solidarity Is Our Weapon Against All Prisons benefit comp tape

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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listen back to Bokeh Versions and me on NTS dubwise

TRACKLIST HOLGER CZUKAY-HOW MUCH ARE THEY ROMIE SINGH-DANCING TO FORGET 400 BLOWS-RADIO PRESSURE IMAGINATION-SO GOOD, SO RIGHT FATS COMET-DUB STORM SCRITTI POLITTI & RANKING ANN-FLESH AND BLOOD BRILLIANT-IT’S A MAN’S MAN’S MAN’S WORLD THE FLYING LIZARDS-MONEY B RESTRICTION RE-ACTION SANDOZ-HIGHER THAN THAT JAH SHAKA-HUNTER RED BEAT-MORE OR LESS CUT COLOURBOX-BABY I LOVE YOU SO

New noise from me / Cutwail benefit compilation

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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notes on sigue sigue sputnik and the boardroom fetish

As part of the post-hack clean up, I found a few drafts of things I’ve not been able to finish – here is the first… comment welcome! Some musings on Sigue Sigue Sputnik and their hyper-glamorised capitalism. A wilfully optimistic reading of Mclaren’s “Rock N Roll Swindle” was that punk aimed to make “cash from chaos” as a fall back …

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Colonel Gaddafi’s Kentucky Fried Britain

Jez: Look Mark, I’m a musician, in case you’d forgotten. Yeah? I answer to a higher law. The law of “if it feels good, do it”. Mark: Oh, that’s a great law isn’t it? What’s that, Gaddafi’s law? Jez: It’s the musician’s law. Colonel Gaddafi could not lay down a bass hook, Mark. That should …

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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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