Yeah... if our distributors carry it, then I can bring it in through the store... but a lot of the smaller labels don't really have Canadian distribution... if you're looking for a source to order within Canada your only bet might be Storming The Base in Toronto - but they don't carry too much in the way of vinyl.

Wrecked does a great job...

Philip K. Dick did...
read: The Man In The High Castle

[ en.wikipedia.org ]

awesome book.

from the article:
"He claims that Mengele found refuge in the German enclave of Colonias Unidas, Paraguay, and from there, in 1963, began to make regular trips to another predominantly German community just over the border in Brazil – the farming community of Candido Godoi."

If the story is actually true... then it seems likely that Mengele simply focused his efforts on increasing the birthrate of the aryans in the community.

This should be mad... I'm playing in Winnipeg at the end of February, and I'll be returning to Montreal with a flight case full of records... some new promos and a lot of old classics.

Looking forward to the chaos.

Fuck Sembello... Spinell is where it's at...

[ www.terrorfeed.com ]

it's hard to find words to express what an assclown that guy is...

the great thing about the underground is that there's always someone doing something crazy that no one knows about... it's always been that way, and likely always will... people with their ears to the ground will always discover things before the media does... in fact, there's a case to be made that the media observes the habits of 'taste-making' demographics before they even bother to report on new trends...

I think the underground will always be around. Media saturation does have an effect, but it's not like many people who heard about the Nymphomatriarch album when it was written up in Playboy and discussed on late-night talk shows actually went out and bought the thing (or even bothered to download it)...

The fact is, that even some of the most known artists in electronic music (Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre, Venetian Snares, Lenny Dee, Jeff Mills etc...) are far from being household names in mainstream culture... Cosey Fanni Tutti, who is featured on the panel, should be able to attest to that. She was involved in one of the most controversial/notorious/infamous underground music projects of all time... and it's probably fair to say that only a very slim percentage of those who have heard of Throbbing Gristle really have any idea of what the group was about...

awesome...

Massacre's performance at Hitched was total speedcore debauchery...

nice to see he's coming back to Montreal.

well... it's 5k each way for me to get to school... and I've been walking...

winter can lick my (f)rigid nutsac...

check the temperatures in Winnipeg...

then realize how lucky you are to be living in a place that only gets this cold a few times each century...

for fuck's sake... seriously...

quit acting like there's someone holding a gun to your fucking head and forcing you to read things you don't want to read... if you disagree with someone, and you know it... and it's causing you that much grief - then just ignore them. It's a really simple solution...

It's all words, folks... it's not like Bliss is running around slapping mouse-traps shut on your testicles. Seriously... if you've got balls, then man up and move on... quit bitching like a bunch of five year-olds that are still waiting for their nuts to descend.

6hz... that's awesome...

I wonder if you could stick one of the earbuds in your belly button... crank up the volume on a 7hz tone and see if they've got enough power to fulfill the promise of the brown-tone!

Shitmat sort of beat you to it:
[ www.discogs.com ]


as for cooking...
anyone got something that can step to the cinnamon+cashew pancakes I made yesterday morning?

Should be an interesting change of pace... nice to see a night that's dedicated to a cross-pollination of all sorts of styles.

I've run across a couple of good MCs... the Bacon Manager is a prince, and Doormouse does a good job of hyping the crowd up.

It's been a long time since I've MCed. It was pretty easy. I was MC M.C. - which was short for MC Mute Cripple. I sat in a chair, with a microphone in my lap and didn't say anything. I'd call for the rewind by falling out of my chair... the rewind affords the DJ the time necessary to help me back into my chair.

It was a protest against the MCs that jump around too much and never stop talking.

I never even bothered to throw my hands up in the air when I did play in front of thousands of people... why would I do it at home?

As for setting up an Octagon...

we've done a mini-version at my place... we've 'only' got seven turntables and three mixers though... so it's not quite the same.

Companies and people that get a lot of packages can often sign a signature release, meaning they want packages left even if there's no one to sign for them.... in that case, the driver would usually not be required to get a signature when delivering it.

I split a magnum of that with a friend from Boston on NYE... they made the 1.5l bottles for the 10th Anniversary of La Fin Du Monde back in '04... he was a bit worried that we might have left it sitting on the shelf for too long, but I think it would have kept for a few more years...

The nearly nine year-old magnum of Chimay Grande Reserve that I've got in the closet... well... I might have to find an occasion to open that one soon. I've heard that it will keep for 15-25 years, though... so maybe there's no rush.

Oh yeah... Chimay is vegan - [ www.zen159730.zen.co.uk ]

and Boreale is also vegan - [ www.zen159730.zen.co.uk ]

I'll save you some work (unless you've already done it)...
Here's the info page for the Gunderphonics cassette:
[ evolution-control.com ]

there's a link for .zip of the entire album... it's worth it... Acid Family and Bush Speech (Corrected) 1 & 2 are great... both sides of the Eerie Materials 7" are included... lots of fun stuff in there.

As for Sylvie & Babs... it's a fantastic record (and one that I'm almost positive tradeMark from ECC was aware of), but it's got more in common with musique concrete/found-sound than it does with what has come to be known as the mash-up...

There's B12 in BEER!! It's true. It comes from the yeast, so drink up!

Stick to the unfiltered sort, though (ie: trappist ales, wheat beers)... as a lot of beers are filtered with isinglass... which a fancy name for the swim bladders of fish.

I didn't want to name names... in case things had changed - or I'd misunderstood while I was drunk.

by the way... the veggie burger is probably ok, but you'll want to avoid the fries at Frites Alors... they may not be cooked in lard, but I've been told they're marinaded in it before they're put in the oil.

Faim du Monde, ChuChai (both on St. Denis between Duluth & Rachel)
Yuan's (Sherbrooke & St.Denis)

ECC has been going since the late 80s... and the Herb Alpert/Public Enemy mash-up he did (originally released on the Gunderphonics cassette in the very early 90s) is often cited as being one of the first mash-up records. There's always been a pretty large variety in his sound, and the live performance that he's put together is actually quite interesting - in that it incorporates random elements and audience interaction - to create something that is unquestionably live.

ECC does it again!

I'm not saying you don't know your shit... but... seriously... Hitler seemed all set on going to see Grooverider and hearing some oldskool drum'n'bass in that MDMA Pizza video that got leaked a while back... and wasn't he like... the king of the nazis?

I'd say that's a problem, wouldn't you

A few friends of mine in Winnipeg worked as pro-wrestlers... and it's really nasty when you see that stuff in person... I remember going to one show where there was a fans-bring-the-weapons hardcore battle royale. A guy I went to high school with was the last person to be eliminated, and I saw him downtown the next day. He was a wreck... black eyes, stitches, bruises and could hardly walk around.

That stuff takes a serious toll on people...

the documentary "Beyond The Mat" is a pretty good watch... and allows you to see the sort of lifestyle a lot of pro-wrestlers have.

the chair-spinning sequence in Devil's Experiment was pretty difficult to get through - not because of what was going on, but it made me dizzy.

As for Flower Of Flesh And Blood - one of the later Guinea Pig films was a 'making of...' feature on Flower... that's the one that got all the notoriety, though... due to people thinking it's a snuff film.

I've mostly stayed out this discussion, but it's foolish to say there isn't a neo-nazi element within the gabber scene. I'm certainly not saying that there's a problem here, because I've never really seen any evidence of racism within the Montreal hardcore community. I think it's great that people here don't subscribe to that sort of ideology, but to say that it isn't a problem anywhere else... travel a bit, and you might see what I mean.

In close to fifteen years of playing shows across North America - and going to a few events in Europe - I've seen a lot of nazi/white-power tattoos at events (I've probably seen just as many at rock concerts and metal shows, but we're not specifically talking about that music)... I mean, look at the Fuck Parade, which was originally called Hate Parade (in opposition to the Love Parade). They changed their name when neo-nazis started showing up, and trying to get involved...

In any case, any music that discharges as much energy as gabber does is bound to attract people who misinterpret the positive release of negative emotions as a way of expressing hate... but they've got the wrong idea. The music isn't about accumulating anger, it's about redirecting it through sound and dance... hopefully getting rid of most of it, and easing the burden of everyday frustrations.

I think you're in the clear there... I mean the guy in American Psycho didn't go to jail. They were only looking for the business men he killed... not the hookers.

Cock is the *new* penis!

genres are micromanagement of music. tear down the walls and let it all bleed together.

DBN was primarily midwest acid + techno... there's a handful of harder records that seem to have misdirected people's concept of the label (ie: Lethal Enforcer by Re-Pete, Deep 13 + Hate Tank by Delta 9)... but the bulk of their stuff was far more acid oriented... the list of techno producers who released early records on DBN is pretty astounding: Woody McBride, DJ Hyperactive, Chris Sattinger, Joel Mull (Transparent 303), Jasper Dahlback (Mooses On Acid), Adam Beyer (Hemlock), I-F (Beverly Hills 808303), Fanon Flowers... not to mention that Frankie Bones and Adam-X both cut records for the label in '94-'95... and that Richie Hawtin's hugely influential Mixmag cd included cuts from a pair of DBN releases (by Goio and Lausen)..

As for gabber, I've always distanced myself from that particular label... I've always considered what I play to be hardcore... at a certain point people started calling it breakcore...

Baise-Moi was, imho, pretty terrible... combines the worst elements of Thelma & Louise, I Spit On Your Grave and hardcore porn... and bundles it all up with the production value of a junior high-school student film.

Philosophy Of A Knife by Andrey Iskanov... it's a little over four hours long... I've got it sitting in front of me, but haven't gotten around to watching it yet... Men Behind The Sun is pretty harsh, especially when you find out that they used actual footage of a pre-teen boy's autopsy. Seriously brutal stuff.

Irreversible was.. it is what it is... personally didn't find it any more disturbing than In My Skin or Twentynine Palms.

no order.
Last Step - 1961 (Planet Mu)
Davros/Unibomber - Final Amiga Battle (Noize Punishment)
TRG - Generation (Naked Lunch)
2562 - Aerial (Tectonic)
Skream - Skreamizm vol. 4 (Tempa)
various - Feed The Machine (No Room For Talent)
Split Horizon/J-Stat - Void Tactical (Void Tactical Media)
Distance - Repercussions (Planet Mu)
Forbidden Society - Polibte Mi Prdel (Abusive Consequences)
Gescom - 028.1/028.2 (Skam)

Hurry, Young Lovers

hurry, young lovers
and love while you can.
kiss and caress
and love while you can.
taste and devour
and love while you can.
because soon death
will blow your fire out.
and only ashes will remain.
- Richard Brautigan

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