MUTANT DANCE

A HTV Documentary that aired on 02/06/1997 documenting the UK based Mutant Dance Party Collective and Bristol Free Party Crew gearing up for a free party they realized on 14/09/1996.

Introduction to Mutant Dance in their own words;

"MUTANT DANCE is a Bristol based collaboration of party people and artists specializing in UV performance and decor. Founded in 1991, Mutant Dance have been involved in the renowned Bristol party scene since the early days of Acid House parties. Now taking that vibe all over England and Europe we bring our free party roots to clubs and festivals wherever we go. We also put on regular free parties in the South West of England.
(Note to PC Netplod: We are making all this up, we know nothing about illegal warehouse raves or anything else for that matter.)
The Mutants have performed extensively in the UK and Europe, appearing at Glastonbury, Ashton Court Festival, Tribal Gathering, Megadog (Lizard), Trance Buddha (Amsterdam), Munich, Out There (Normandy), most major UK clubs and festivals, and various free parties throughout Europe.
enter Mutant Dance can add a unique live element to any club environment or party. With our mix of freaky costumes and boundless energy we guarantee to liven up any event. Our UV performers, costumed dancers, or outrageous environments, provide an extra dimension of scene setting and sensory stimulation. Mutate and survive..."

MUTANTE DANCE @ Stonehenge UK 20/03/1999  (source)

From: "Chelfyn Baxter" chelfyn@harmony.force9.net
To:
Subject: They let us in!!!!!
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:47:43 -0000

I thought it might interest you that Bristol ravers Mutant Dance staged a
free party at Stonehenge last Saturday night/Sunday morning for the equinox.
We set up a Fluoro geodesic dome behind the visitors centre, lit with UV and
partied all night 'til the druids arrived. Come sunrise they let not only
the druids, but 150 or so assorted free party people into the circle for an
hour. Even the solitary copper was chilled.....

Report of a party goer on a busted Mutant Dance party near Stonehenge on 18/06/1999. - http://www.urban75.com/Rave/stonehenge2.html

VOTE FOR "GAS" IN THE BIG BROTHER AWARDS 2013

Our local League of Human Rights requested me to post this but Gmail decided that the message sent to us was spam. Better late than never..

Big Brother Award voor GAS?

Persbericht – 22 april 2013

Op 30 mei 2013 reikt de Liga voor Mensenrechten, in partnerschap met EMSOC en datapanik.org, voor het derde jaar op rij de Big Brother Awards uit aan een persoon of organisatie die het recht op privacy op losse schroeven zet of een buitensporige drang naar controle vertoont. Wie wint de Big Brother Award 2013? De vergaande GAS-boetes, het amateuristische datalek bij NMBS, de futuristische drone van Genk of gewoon uzelf… Iedereen kan mee beslissen!

Het recht op privacy is een fundamenteel mensenrecht mede doordat het andere rechten en vrijheden mogelijk maakt, zoals de vrijheid van vereniging en de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Het recht op privacy kan enkel ingeperkt worden indien dit absoluut noodzakelijk is. Helaas stellen we vast dat dit fundamenteel recht in toenemende mate wordt uitgehold. Steeds meer samenlevingsproblematieken worden geformuleerd als veiligheidsproblemen. Sociale en economische maatregelen moeten steevast wijken voor veiligheidsmaatregelen, controle en repressie. Het wijst op een diepere mentaliteitsverandering: iedereen is potentieel verdacht. Er wordt bovendien een blind geloof gesteld in de mogelijkheden die de technologische evolutie ons biedt om dit “vermoeden van schuld” hard te maken.

En wat geeft beter blijk van de doorgedreven drang naar controle dan de omstreden GAS-boetes? Een GAS-boete opgelegd krijgen omdat je wat kruimels morst op de trappen van een kerk? Een GAS-boete opgelegd krijgen omdat je een sneeuwballengevecht houdt? Vanuit je auto naar iemand wuiven en een GAS-boete opgelegd krijgen? Je kan het zo gek niet bedenken of je kan er vandaag de dag een GAS-boete voor krijgen. Men wil mensen, en liefst de gehele samenleving, op een zodanige manier beheersen en controleren dat elke afwijking in de kiem wordt gesmoord. Door dergelijke controle verliezen we steeds meer vrijheid en dringt de overheid steeds meer binnen in ons privéleven. Laten we Big Brother toe in ons leven of zeggen we volmondig “GAS? Nee bedankt!”?

Maar nog zeven andere kandidaten komen dit jaar in aanmerking voor een Big Brother Award: het recente datalek bij NMBS, het afluisterschandaal bij opslagbedrijf Shurgard, de Genkse drone, de in opmars zijnde camera’s met automatische nummerplaatherkenning, de experimenten met vingerafdrukregistratie op school, de Amerikaanse anti-privacy lobby en tot slot “uzelf”, als gebruiker van sociale media. Wil je meer weten over het wat en waarom van deze nominaties? Neem dan snel een kijkje op www.bigbrotherawards.be en lees de volledige dossiers.

Big Brother is echt overal! Daarom deze sensibiliserende campagne die ons allen de waarde van het recht op privacy in herinnering moet brengen. Een maand lang kan het publiek haar stem uitbrengen op de kandidaat die onze privacy het meest bedreigt of een buitensporige drang naar controle vertoont. Ook een professionele expertenjury kiest haar meest “prijzenswaardige” winnaar. Als sluitstuk van de campagne worden de awards overhandigd aan de grootste privacyschenders op een ludieke én informatieve awardshow, onder leiding van Bert Gabriëls, met daaraan gekoppeld het debat “Privacy is dead, get over it!” Kom op 30 mei om 20u naar de Vooruit in Gent en schuif mee aan de debattafel. Uw privacy verdient een waardig pleitbezorger.

Einde persbericht

~ Via: Liga voor Mensenrechten vzw (website/fb)

RIP P183

Today the street art movement lost an upcoming icon. Russian street artist P183 (or Pasha 183) died at the age of 29 (source). Nicknamed as the "Russian Banksy" by The Guardian he was known for his own playful way to express social commentary and mock politics.

RIP, see you in space!

Moscow's Banksy: the street art of P183 – in pictures

DMCWORLD INTERVIEWS SP23 CREW

DMCWORLD magazine published an interview with Stray Wayward (aka Spiral Mark) and Sirius, both members of the SP23 crew (sp23.org). SP23 is creative collected formed by some of the core members of the Spiral Tribe soundsystem. 

Mark is currently working on a book I am really, really.. really looking forward to. What makes me so anxious is that I am almost certain that this book will be THE book I would be able to call my bible. In "A Darker Electricity: Life On The Road With Spiral Tribe" Mark will chose to tell the story of Spiral Tribe in a creative way by weaving narrative threads together and not just create a chronological list of events. Thus creating an interesting storyline I am dieing to dig in to. Finally I will be able to read the whole story of which I now know only a few scraps I picked op from interviews, articles, flyers and other media we once searched and shared on this blog. One of the main reasons we started this blog is to collect all the information that was available online and make sure it doesn't get lost. Many websites from soundsystems in the early 90's were disappearing so we wanted to make sure that these pieces of history wouldn't get lost. Creating one place to find out more about the history of the current free tekno movement. Especially the legend of Spiral Tribe which became a great source of inspiration that became a part of the free person I am now. A part of the manifesto I put together a few years ago, which sums up what we stand and fight for as a soundsystem, is based on the reason why Spiral Tribe was formed. A group of friends got together to resist the system that limits our own creativity and freedom of expression. Their weapon in this battle was Spiral Tribe. Re-read our manifesto and you'll know which part I am referring to. 23 years later these constrains are still being enforced by governments but also still resisted by many collectives in the form of a soundsystem all over the world. Their cause became a message I now follow and actively spread. I could go on about how much influence Spiral Tribe actually had on my life but I just realized I was just mentioning the upcoming book "A Darker Electricity" and got off track. So my train of thought ends here and the influence of Spiral Tribe in my life will become a post on its own in the near future.

So.. emm.. yeah. "A Darker Electricity" a book by Mark of SP23, obviously highly anticipated by me. You can find excerpts of this book on his blog called WAYWARDTALES.

CLICK HERE FOR THE INTERVIEW

What was it about the whole free party movement that attracted you?

Mark: "I grew up going to free festivals. Stonehenge and Avebury. Something magical occurs when you escape the confines and routines of the locked-down mainstream. It's a combination of things: the community bonds that you feel while dancing together across the night – under the stars; the connection with nature; and a sense that you've stepped outside of a bubble and into the wider world... It's an escape – not away from reality but into reality."

COUNTER-ECONOMICS AND THE COUNTERCULTURE

Few weeks ago I discovered a blog called Propaganda Lalaland when I stumbled upon the article "Anarchists Want To Force You Into Anarchism!". Satisfied by a good short read I bookmarked it in my unsorted, personal nightmare, list of pages I should keep track off. Should.. I gave up on RSS because it feeds me with too much information I want to read, yet can't due to lack of time or just can't make up my mind and end up doodling something random on basically anything. Rediscovered my love for just drawing whatever whenever, so I bought myself a shitload of pencils, erasers and sharpies. Staring at my collection while writing this I noticed that alot of sharpies are missing. Note to self, stop ruining them on walls and other hard/rough materials. My list of casualties peaked this month and I am basically throwing money away :D Anyway.. in other news, the writer of  Propaganda Lalaland posted a new article this weekend and here I am telling you about it. Going for at least one person to sit trough my rant and actually click the URL below! Don't let me down.

My sunday, drove home when I was sober-ish.. spent hours starting several projects in Illustrator (of wish some I might finish this week, that would be great actually with our trip to the east of Česká republika coming up in 3 weeks. Kicking off the teknival season/summer! Taking our own sound with us, collaborating with our friends and fellow astronauts from Kierewiet creating a bigger and better experience for those who are coming. Hopefully Gagamous Kierewiet finally finds his way back home, since he is missing in action since mid February 2013 after hosting a night in Ostrava. So whoever took him, here is your chance to regain your dignity and make that trip to Klokočov. Man up (this includes women) and reunite Gagamous with his family.

M.I.A. since 02/2013 - last seen in Ostrava, CZ

Those who are just clicking trough and go straight for the link.
Click here "Counter-Economics and the Counterculture".
Everything above is barely related anyway..
so don't bother and start reading that article :D

Follow Propaganda Lalaland here.
Find out more about agorism at.. agorism.info.
.INFO shout out, because information is awesome :D
Also providing information is zoneofthefree.info.

CONTRADICTIONARY

Currently there are only two reasons why my agenda might show a sign of life these days (of being unemployed waiting to be accepted and study again for two years).. one is the start of a new season of a tv show I watch (and download). Game of Thrones S03E01 should be filled in a few hours, woop woop. The other reason is the release of a book I keep track off. So when I confirmed my Game of Thrones reminder is noticed I missed last weeks reminder of a new book by CrimethInc. Once my transfer is approved by Pay(so-called)"Pal", so I can order the new Contradictionary published by CrimethInc. I am probably late to the party but with some luck it gets shipped with a free pencil. Those are welcome at the moment! :D

A blind buy I most likely won't regret. Didn't bother looking for a review, CWC will deliver. If not, well then my CWC collection is at-least complete.

CONTRADICTIONARY, click here!
The rest should be obvious to anyone who can read.

Not your kind of cup? Rolling Thunder #6 was digitally released yesterday!
Free of charge, for you to explore. That's 106 pages not having to worry about what to read while sitting on the toilet.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Go to the top, but stay underground"

Anynomous

INFORMATION FOR EVERYONE!

Information is free,
open to all.
So.. FUCK YOU and your intellectual property!

Freedom of information is a human right! So why not READABOOKSON? Or visit V£R$O or the EBOOKCOLLECTIVE.
Seize what is yours
and stay informed!

The Archive.org hosts a huge collection of all kinds of literature such as the zine collection of Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library or Make Projects, a collection of DIY project from MAKE magazine. The Archive.org library also includes audio, video, software and archived websites. Great media such as a live production of George Orwell's "1984" by BBC Television or you might fancy a good conspiracy theory? The Capitalist Conspiracy (1969) awaits you!

TIP: The Anarchist Library is open 24/24!

Radical Books has a healthy collection of radical literature. It lacks updates but the distribution of information continues.

Not looking for a suggestion? Knock yourself out!

Project Gutenberg  - Library Genesis  - LibriVox  - BookOS  - World Public Library  - Feedbooks  - ManyBooks  - Classic Reader - Bookyards -
... 

While you are at it.. feel free to share your sources with others. Public access to information is one of the best ways to guard our freedoms and limits the government power. The best government is an open government. Secrecy breeds mistrust, while transparency fosters trust. A successful community is built on trust. So to all politicians out there.. take note. Give access, make friends.

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON

 Stunning documentary on the 1984 UK Miners Strike where international capital used Margaret Thatcher's Tory government to mount a vicious campaign of violence and hatred on the British working class. The film features the miners and their families experiences told through songs, poems and other art.

CHASSEURS DE SKINS

 Antifa - "Skinhead hunters"

Documentary about the rise of neo-nazi skinhead culture in 1980s Paris and how they were countered by a militant, multicultural underground movement. Contains interviews with participants recounting the subcultures and the street fights which made up their lives at the time. (description grabbed from a vimeo upload by Libcom.org)

English subtitles are hard-coded 

Fighting fascism by any means necessary!

LIFE IS SPIRAL

(image source)

Is our solar system a vortex?
It would make a lot of sense..

Find out more about spirals @ Zone of the Free.

TBP AFK

Seized someones tablet to login to my computer back at home. I hope this bogus setup works out and this post comes trough. :D Anyway I have been waiting for this documentary for a while now and I hope to be able watch it this weekend.

The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard

Friday Feb 8 17.00 (CET) TPB AFK - The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard by Simon Klose premieres at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival!

TPB AFK will be the first film in the history of the Berlinale to be released simultaneously online, for free and for sale. We want to share the film with our peers all over the world the very second it is made available to the audience in Berlin.

We want you all to be a part of the premiere, so gather all your friends for a screening of TPB AFK in your city and watch the film together with us. Please take pictures of your screening, tell us where it happened and share it with us on Flickr, Twitter, Instagram, Bambuser, Vimeo...

Use the hashtag #sharetpbafk

Invite your friends and spread the word! Let's make this the biggest world premiere ever!

 / Simon Klose and the TPB AFK team - www.tpbafk.tv

Watch it here!

(HTTPS & privacy-enhanced mode enabled)

SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD! 

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me. ” 

- Banksy

CAMOVER 2013

COME OUT AND PLAY!
"CAMOVER is a game for everybody who hates CCTV."

CCTV: "an instrument of social control and the production of discipline; the production of 'anticipatory conformity'; the certainty of rapid deployment to observed deviance and; the compilation of individualised dossiers of the monitored population."

Idea of the game

The idea of the game is to destroy as much cctv-cams as possible. For this we decided to announce a competition. For joining in you need a group with a name that starts with command…, briagde…, etc. and ends with a historic person. The only other requirement for you is to be aware of internet-safety.

Now you should not only do the action as you do all the time but also make a documentation with at least a report published on german indymedia or linksunten.indymedia.org. If you have pictures, videos or other evidence for the destroyed cameras, you get extra-credits. CAMOVER.blogsport.de will give you the attention your action deserves.

The CAMOVER game ends with the 19 february 2013 – the day when the european police congress in Berlin is being held. The winner may walk in the first line of the demonstration against the cops on 16 february and crouch down to avoid being hit by flying cams. (source: camover.blogsport.de)

CAMOVER: http://camover.blogsport.de
Polizeikongress 2013: http://polizeikongress2013.blogsport.de/

Guide to Closed Circuit Television Destruction (PDF)

NEEN AAN GASBOETES

    Klik hier om het webmagazine te openen 

Een zeer interessant magazine dat inzoomt op de gasboetes-problematiek.

 De gemeente wordt rechtbank: waar is de scheiding der machten gebleven? Tegenwoordig zijn we overgeleverd aan de willekeur van laaggeschoolde GAS-ambtenaren die "god" mogen spelen: ze zijn immers vaststeller van de overtreding en tegelijk mogen ze de straf bepalen. Dit zou nooit dezelfde persoon mogen zijn & gaat zo rechtstreeks in tegen de grondwet. De gemeenten grijpen hun kans om de burgers hun vrijheden nog harder te begrenzen en stellen de onnozelste reglementen op.

Tevens worden er vragen opgeroepen: Waarom wordt de opvoedende rol van de overheid eensklaps omgevormd in een financiële transactie?

Hoe lang gaan we dit nog pikken?

GET INFORMED - FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS

IN RETROSPECT

We sure spend a lot of time in bunkers in 2012 :)

2013 here we go!

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the

 things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

So throw off the bowlines. 

Sail away from the safe harbor. 

Catch the trade winds in your sails. 

Explore. Dream. Discover.”

- Mark Twain

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"One persons craziness is another persons reality"

Tim Burton

LUSH

By Lush

EPSYLONN OTOKTONE

Story of a notorious french soundsystems trip through Europe.

Epsylonn's 2008 roadtrip

Website here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be."

 -- L. Neil Smith

SPIRAL TRIBE ON ARTE.TV TONIGHT

Tonight's La Minute Tracks on ARTE will be featuring the mental sound of Spiral Tribe on it's show. Don't worry if you miss.. I will too. They will be rebroadcasting it.. even on the 23rd. That is when I will be watching :D

Saturday 17 November 2012 @ 23:10
Tuesday 20 November 2012 @ 05:00
Friday 23 November 2012 @ 01:35

"Paint it Black" avec les Mad Max des free-parties, la comète Spiral Tribe - Un reportage de Gabrielle Culand
(with preview video)

Sans eux, le mouvement des free-parties serait resté confiné aux campagnes anglaises. Au début des années 90, dans le sillage de la comète Spiral Tribe, toute l'Europe a plongé dans la musique électronique avec pour mot d'ordre "free party, free music, for free people". - continue here

You should be able to watch it here (when it broadcasts)

EDIT: the video was uploaded by ARTE.TV to YouTube, so I can embed it :D

RAVE PARTY IN IRAN

This was uploaded on YouTube today.. I had to share!
Kudos to whoever threw this rave party.

Keep it underground and rave on people of Iran!