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K9 :: 2008-10-31

Datacide Conference 2008 and Party
DIA DE LOS MUERTOS
31.10.08

K9
Kinzigstr.9
10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain

Doors open 15.00
Conference 
start at 15.30

Christoph Fringeli: Introduction
A brief introduction 
to Datacide, where it's coming from and a brief introduction to the new 
issue and the conference.

Christoph Fringeli: Hedonism and Revolution
Will true pleasure only exist after the revolution, or will it be 
indispensable to even lead to the revolution?
Proclaiming the 
revolutionary as a "doomed man" without "personal interests", the 
anarchist Sergey Nechayev set the pace for an ascetic image of the 
revolutionary that would be picked up by the direct heirs of 
Bakuninism: the Leninists. An "ideal" of a person without desires and 
only one passion - the revolution - was supposed to bring about a 
society of human fullfillment, something that had to go wrong, and end 
in the misery of the Maoist and Trotzkyist sects. But there has always 
been a hedonist counter-tendency to this, from Fourier to Sexpol to the 
Commune movement and the counter cultures of the 60's to the 90's. CF 
will examine some of the tensions and discussions that took place in 
the 70's and ask if they have any relevance now.

Neil Transpontine: A 
Loop Da Loop Era: towards an (anti)history of 'rave'
(History is Made 
at Night)
'In 2008 the UK media have been full of stories about the 
'20th annversary of acid house'. Neil Transpontine critiques this 
conventional history, and celebrates instead the multiple trajectories 
that converge and pass through the various sonic, social and chemical 
phenomena grouped under that unstable term 'rave'. It is a story that 
takes in not just 303s and 808s but gay riots, carnival uprisings and 
underground jazz clubs in 1940s Europe'.

Stewart Home: Hallucination 
Generation
Looking at some of the more occulted aspects of the 
counterculture in 1960s London. How some of the key figures in the 
development of the scene rarely make it into the histories. Terry 
Taylor the first person to mention LSD in a British novel, and the 
inspiration
for both Absolute Beginners and Mister Love and Justice by 
a better known writer Colin MacInnes. Detta Whybrow and the first major 
LSD distribution network in London after the drug was made illegal. 
Alex Trocchi, drug dealing and black powers. Plus the Notting Hill's 
problematic writers of the 1950s who later occupied positions on the 
outer fringes of the counterculture.

John Eden: Shaking The 
Foundations: Reggae soundsystems meet 'Big Ben British values' downtown
John Eden will examine the contribution reggae soundsystems have 
contributed to British culture and identity, and what they can teach 
the global mp3 generation.
John has contributed writing to a vast 
number of independent publications over the years and currently co-
edits Woofah magazine – "a completely DIY rag covering reggae, dubstep 
and grime". He has run his own uncarved.org website since 1997.
He 
began unleashing his musical taste on the world in the mid 80s by 
wrestling all-comers off the stereo at house parties and standing guard 
whilst his carefully compiled cassettes played. More recently he has 
contributed sets to the respected Blogariddims podcast series and 
played records at a bewildering array of obscure London venues.

Hans-
Christian Psaar: Kindertotenlieder for Rave culture.
It..s a common 
myth in music subcultures to think of themselves as independent. But 
what happens? Commodities get produced and sold on the market to 
consumers. No matter if those consumers wear dreadlocks or suits. 
Rebellion and subversion are labels to sell capitalist goods in the 
cultural industry. Be creative! Have fun! Those are the new imperatives 
of post-fordist capitalism and its cultural economies. The talk will 
show on the examples of The Prodigy and Kid606 how rave music is 
branded and sold.

Lauren Graber: Countervailing Forces: Electronic 
Music Countercultures and Subcultures
This paper will open with a 
discussion of how counterculture and subculture have been defined, and 
then ask what is at stake when we seek to assess divergent avenues 
within electronic music in these terms. Central to the operational 
imperative of subculture is the solidification of style and genre - 
visible and audible signs connoting sameness and belonging. The tactics 
of visibility and disappearance enacted as subcultural and 
countercultural everyday practices will be drawn out through a 
commentary on the book "Psychedelic White: Goa Trance and the Viscosity 
of Race" and other oppositional tendencies in experimental electronics.

Alexis Wolton: Tortugan towerblocks: Pirate signals in the 90s
After a 
clampdown on pirate activity at the end of the 80s, the housing estates 
of London saw a renewed explosion of pirate stations in the early 90s. 
During the 90s commentators enthusiastically linked the pirate stations 
with Hakim Bey's ideas on pirate utopias, information networks and self-
organisation. A decade later the pirates still exist, their 
relationship to the world radically changed by the internet, but the 
positivist optimism of 90s technoculture has waned, many of its hopes 
recuperated by Capital.
A discussion of the history and legacy of 
pirate radio, the theories of self-organisation that accompanied it and 
current ideas on participatory media.

OPEN ENDED PANEL DISCUSSION

PARTY:
noise:_____from 23h
Mario D'Andreta (Alien City 
Soundscapes/Idroscalo Digitale)
Line Destruction (Spine)
Circuit 
Parallele (Spine, Hekate)
The Wirebug (Hekate, Coven H, London)
DJ 
Controlled Weirdness (Unearthly, London)
Blackmass Plastics (Dirty 
Needles, U.K.)
Kovert (Criticalnoise.net, Datacide, London)
El Gusano 
Rojo (Hijos de Puta) 

Kinzigstr.9
10247 Berlin-Friedrichshain