SOUNDSYSTEM - LE FILM

Sound System :
Video by Jérôme Duval
France, 58mn, 2000, couleur, Beta SP

Les teknivals et free parties sont des phénomènes underground de la musique techno. Aux travers de ces événements, se crée de façon éphémère un mode de vie à part, en rupture avec un certain nombre de valeurs qu'impose la société actuelle. En pleine nature, ces fêtes gratuites et clandestines durent souvent plus de 24 heures et rassemblent plusieurs petits groupes de jeunes, équipés de camion et de matériel sonore : les "sound system".
Le film est un long moment passé avec l'un d'entre eux, les METEKS, s'attachant à décrire leurs pratiques, leurs choix, leur regard sur le monde, et parfois leur paradoxe, leur attachement à cette liberté que symbolise pour eux la vie au sein d'un "sound system".
Avec le soutien du Centre National de la Cinématographie, de la Région Limousin.

DVD 2000

MERRY CRISIS

By Monsieur qui

FRESH ROA POST

By Roa @ Salton Sea, California

THE TAXIDERMIST LIVESET

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THE TAXIDERMIST - DOOM (live)

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He terrorised multiple free & afterparty's with this set last year & I didn't hear one complaint. Slow deep mental hardcore that keeps you moving, check it!

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! Download here (mega-upload) !

More info/art/set of Taxidermist right here or here

GREED

By Ludo - Paris

NO BLOOD

By K-Guy

"the 'No Blood' image is a piece that explores the clean white shirt: the uniform of the rich and the powerful, with a narrative of interweaving concepts of big business, corporate greed, the politics of war, freedom and 'truth'. The stains of suffering will always be visible"

VOINA

Voina (Russian: Война = War) is a Russian performance group known for their provocative and politically charged works of performance art. Voina was founded in 2007 by philosophy students at Lomonosov Moscow State University and is led by Petr Verzilov and Oleg Vorotnikov,  however the collective members Oleg Vorotnikov and Leonid Nikolayev are detained by the Moscow police in connection with an anti-corruption protest, possibly facing seven years of prison sentence. In response to the detention, graffiti artist Banksy decided to raise money for the artists. They have also been denounced by right-wing groups like the People's Synod.

Voina came to widespread public attention with their 2008 work Fuck for the heir Puppy Bear!, staged the day before the election of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, whose last name is derived from the word medved, "bear" in Russian. Five couples, including one pregnant woman four days from giving birth, had public sex in Moscow's Timirayzev State Museum of Biology. A more recent action, In Memory of the Decemberists - A Present to Yuri Luzhkov, staged a hanging of two homosexual men and three Central Asian guest workers, references to political stances of Moscow Mayor Luzhkov which have been denounced as racist and homophobic, and the frequent murders of guest workers in the city.[1] A Cop in a Priest's Robe featured Vorotnikov wearing the robe of a Russian Orthodox priest and the hat of a police officer leaving a grocery store without paying for a full cart of groceries, a demonstration of the "invulnerability" of these groups.

Other Voina actions include a wake for absurdist poet Dmitry Prigov, featuring a table with food and vodka, in a Moscow Metro car and celebrating International Workers' Day by throwing live cats at workers in a McDonald's restaurant "to break up the drudgery of their routine workday". In the night of June 14, 2010, they painted a giant 65 m long phallus on the Liteyny drawbridge leading to the Bolshoy Dom, headquarters of the local branch of the Federal Security Service in Saint Petersburg.

http://en.free-voina.org/

ORE

By Ore - Paris

SYMBIOTE

SYMBIOTE RECORDS 1

feat.

the manhattan project - PHANTOMLAB

complex machinery -DISSOLVEMENT

teleportation - WIN

recall - STEFAN zmk

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Massive respect for this release: one of 2010's finest for sure!

Gatefold double pack for pure mental hardtekno. The Symbiose is the one of Nederland Acid Style and the french mental tribe. Superb project, wonderfull sleeve. A Must have !

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For sales & bookings go here

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Artwork by Januz, more info right here

LITTLE BREAK

You might have already noticed, we are getting kinda sloppy on daily post updates. (Excuse: moving house & crappy unstable internet connection). Have no fear though: we WILL be back :)

In the meantime: enjoy the archive!

FREE?

TEKNO PIC OF THE DAY

PHAT TRUCK POST

By ROA

H&M

By Mr Talion

LE PHANTOM DU ZERO TREIZE

Adjusted logo OI3

By Bluzark

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More on 013 soundsystem can be found here

NOSEDROPS

By Thiago Alvim

SOMETIMES

by ??

BOYCOT

THE FUTURE IS NOW

PHAT TRUCK POST

@ czechtek 20003

GEC

By Gec, ITALY

BILLBOARD

By lead stencil studio

 On the US-Canadian border, a billboard advertising fresh air.

No photoshop, it's really out there! Proof here.

WE HAD A DREAM

Un DVD raconte l'épopée des Heretiks - Par Laure NARLIAN
 

We Had a Dream - Bande Annonce from Heretik System on Vimeo.

Ils ont été durant 10 ans en France les chantres de la fête libre, de la "Free Party". Mais d'eux, on ne sait rien.

"We Had a Dream" de Damien Raclot Dauillac, qui sort le 8 novembre en DVD, répare cette lacune en levant le voile sur les hommes derrière le mythe Heretiks.

Des petites fêtes clandestines à la scène du Zénith, en passant par les technivals illégaux et les coups d'éclat en plein Paris, ce film témoigne d'une folle odyssée de la contre-culture.

La tribu des Heretiks naît au mitan des années 90, sur le modèle des Spiral Tribes britanniques. Constitué d'un noyau dur de moins de dix personnes, il s'agit d'un collectif d'amis qui se retrouvent sous la bannière de la musique techno et de l'urgence de faire la fête où bon leur semble et avec le minimum de moyens: un sound-system est né.

Il se baptise Heretik pour marquer son "opposition à l'ordre établi". Un esprit libre et libertaire proche du mouvement punk, celui de la débrouille et de la marge, souffle sur ce collectif. Très vite, les Heretiks animent des fêtes techno (gratuites, où le public participe selon ses moyens) qui retiennent l'attention et donnent envie de les suivre.

Surveillés par les RG, les Heretiks inquiètent les autorités
Sans tarder, les autorités missionnent une équipe des Renseignements Généraux pour "étudier le mouvement", comprendre ses motivations et garder un oeil sur ce "vivier subversif" où la drogue coule à flots.

Durant des années, les Heretiks vont multiplier "les exploits" (c'est le terme même du policier des RG qui témoigne tout au long du film) et jouer au chat et à la souris avec les autorités. Plus ces derniers les attaquent, les entravent, les sanctionnent, notamment en confisquant le matériel - "tout notre vie!" -, plus le groupe d'amis rivalise de ruse et d'intelligence pour les contrer. Les Heretiks se radicalisent, se politisent.

Soudés par la lutte et les drames intimes, galvanisés par une tragédie collective, ces dangereux insoumis décident de voir plus grand que ces "petits bouts de forêts ou ces hangars glacials" qui sont leur ordinaire. "Nous ce qu'on veut, c'est cramer la capitale, investir des lieux incroyables".

Le coup d'éclat impensable de la piscine Molitor
Leur plus extraordinaire coup d'éclat, qui vaut à lui seul la vision de ce DVD, reste celui de la free party de la piscine Molitor dans le 16e arrondissement de Paris, près du parc des Princes.

Un lieu classé, alors désaffecté, qu'ils vont investir clandestinement et avec une minutie impensable. La préparation durera deux mois. Il faut casser des murs et tout organiser - le son, l'image et même la pyrotechnie - mais sans se faire repérer. Ils y parviendront. Déguisés en ouvriers et organisés en commandos.

Le policier des RG chargé de les surveiller témoigne: il n'avait rien vu venir. "On ne savait pas. Ca a été dantesque. Dans un lieu classé, ils ont réuni 6.000 personnes. C'était un exploit", reconnaît-il.

Le public, lui, en parle encore aujourd'hui avec des trémolos dans la voix. La fête de folie jusqu'à 11h du matin. Sans débordements ni violence à déplorer. "C'était hyper politique de réussir ça." Un défi à l'autorité inégalé pour le droit à faire la fête.

Des champs à l'Olympia
L'autre exploit à mettre au compte des Heretiks est sans doute l'intelligence avec laquelle ils ont su tirer parti de leur expérience pour négocier le virage de l'underground aux grandes scènes officielles, des free-parties dans les champs à l'Olympia en 2008. Et ce alors que l'arsenal législatif et répressif a réussi à tuer doucement le mouvement.

Constitué de nombreux entretiens sans langue de bois avec le noyau dur des Heretiks (Léo, Jano, KRS et Ben) et d'images d'époque filmées par la tribu, ce documentaire est passionnant. Mais il a aussi un petit goût d'inachevé.

On reste en particulier sur sa faim en ce qui concerne la musique, le cheminement musical de chacun et celui du collectif. A déplorer également, le manque criant de témoignages du public de leurs fêtes. Plutôt ironique d'avoir fait du policier des RG, au demeurant interessant et presque admiratif, quasiment l'unique regard extérieur posé sur la folle aventure de ces farouches activistes.

"We Had A Dream" de Damien Raclot-Dauliac (Heretik System)

TACHELES SQUAT

Random impressions of the Tacheles Squat in Berlin, Germany.

More info here!

My advice is to bring this squatted church a visit, before it's gone. Really great to enter a free zone in the centre of the capital of Germany!

HORFE

By Horfe

GENERATION OV NOISE

GENERATION OV NOISE
TEKNIVAL USA '96

The ever growing world of death culture is catching up with us and the time

for exodus is soon.

The only way to grow is to expand beyond the boundaries of what we know into the uncharted areas of the unknown. The unknown being the only source of new knowledge. Our life support systems on this planet are organic. To regenerate cell walls, divide and multiply - old barriers fall away, ancient pillars crumble and new structures stand up in their turn. One generation gives birth to the next. The old gives life to the new. We live in the ever transitional moment connecting past through present to future. It is our  mission to discover the ever changing horizon. To continually re-establish new parameters and to explore and secure each new level as we find it. It is our purpose to destroy the inertia that has been responsible for the demise of our life force on our Planet. It is time to wake the Planet UP! We - The Generation ov Noise - using technology, combined with organic life systems deliver a massive jolt to Human sensory circuits, providing the extra energy input needed to make the Quantum leap from Terrestrial Consciousness to Extra Terrestrial Consciousness. (Taken in part from Spiral Tribe - "Techno  Terra" ...Modified for G.O.N.)

Havoc and Mayhem shall occur on American soil in '96... This is a call to all sound systems and people to come and annihilate the land of the so called "free"... We request your presence, attendance and participation in the travelling free festival. All are welcome and none shall be turned down. The states are in need of some TRUE anarchy and chaos...there are 9 dates being planned out...all sound systems, DJs, bands, vehicles, first aid, mobile kitchens, hackers, promoters, live acts, vendors, and general PEOPLE POWER are requested... no egos, just one huge agGrow tribe, we need your help to create a fire in the american underground.

NO COMPROMISE -- NO COMPROMISE -- NO COMPROMISE

YES we could spend more time trying to secure the necessary permits and going thru the proper channels and avoiding unpleasant friction - but this would only dilute the required intensity and vibrational quality of our gatherings - the only permit we need to gather is the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. We know what we are doing - We know how it needs to be done. Our so called "leaders" and "authorities" have had their chance and have basically failed to impress. We have the knowledge. We have the resources. We are now taking control of our destiny and will accept nothing less. We are tired of clueless, powermad control freaks wasting our time. We are a true and Positive Life Culture --- The Death Culture seeks to repress us because we threaten it's existence and power structure. It's time to establish our rightful place on this planet.

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OUR GOALS

FREE THE LAND...
The vast plains, forests, and other wildlife areas are being
Hoarded by dominating and selfish individuals and groups
who have little interest in the health and well being of our
habitat, as well as the habitat of other living beings. We
have every right to reclaim and commune with our Mother
Earth... NO COMPROMISE!

FREE OUR MINDS...
We respect no "authority" which attemps to regulate our
state of consciousness. We will alter our minds in any way
we see fit at any time with any plant, substance, dance or
meditation that we choose... NO COMPROMISE!

FREE OUR PARTIES...
Our Gatherings are sacred to us. NO individual or group
will insult or disrespect us by disturbing or attempting
to control our parties. Our parties are spiritual...
NOT commercial.

FREE OUR FREEDOMS...
The ridiculous and unreasonable laws that are attempting
to control our movements and basic human rights are
disrespectful to us -- their sole purpose is to alienate
us from one another -- We will show no respect to those
laws or anyone attempting to enforce them...
NO COMPROMISE!

OUR TOOLS FOR CHANGE ARE --MUSIC--DANCE--LOVE--MAGIK--

THE COMMITMENT ONE MUST TAKE TO SERVE THIS EXCURSION
INTO FREEDOM AND CHAOS

1. THEE JOB...
Stop thinking about it...DO IT! Quit your job. Quit your life -
start anew... You must undertake this death of your responsibility
to the system. You can not take part in the system and survive this
trip at the same time.. To endure this mission you must drop out of
their way to form your own...NO COMPROMISE!

2. THEE MENTAL STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS...
To control your freedom to ingest chaotic chemistry you must know
when not to over indulge and when to blow your mind. You must know
the times to do and not to do. You must at all times know how to take
care of yourself and others.

3. THEE INDIVIDUAL...
There are none. This is a synergy of many. This has to be a close
knit
family. Everyone must come prepared to take care of themselves, and
be prepared to take care of others. Everyone is a Family.

4. THEE COMMERCE...
If you want to spend money and make money, then barter, sell, trade on
your own accord. If you are a vendor selling food...It is advised
that you
give some of your wares to those who are needy.

TENTATIVE DATES AND LOCATIONS

This information is completely subject to change and will definitely
mutate depending on contacts made in the local areas. If you know of good
sites in these general areas PLEASE become involved. Information will be
updated constantly. Please pass this info on...print it out to those without
internet access...spread the word.. with your help IT will happen!
Party seekers should stay in touch with all available info outlet right up
to the last minute.....1-800 # coming soon..

G.O.N. Spring initialization

FOOD NOT BOMBS' SOUPSTOCK
San Francisco, Ca - Sat. April 27th - 12noon-? Free food, sound system,
bands, info - Golden Gate Park Bandshell

all gatherings listed here are intended to last all weekend

FRIDAY MAY 31st -- CENTERAL OREGON
FRIDAY MAY JUNE 7th -- SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK - SOUTHERN, Ca
FRIDAY JUNE 14th -- ARIZONA -- TUSCON AREA
FRIDAY JUNE 21th -- TEXAS -- AUSTIN AREA
--national rainbow gathering, ozarks--
FRIDAY JULY 12th -- NEW HAMPSHIRE
FRIDAY JULY 26th -- TORONTO AREA, CANADA
FRIDAY AUGUST 2nd -- DREAMTIME VILLAGE, WI.
FRIDAY AUGUST 16th --BOULDER AREA, CO
FRIDAY AUGUST 23rd -- (Burning Man) PYRAMID LAKE, NEVADA


Disclaimer...ANY PERSON IS FREE TO RE-INTERPRET, RE-MIX, OR ADD TO THIS
CHARTER IF IT IS FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE.

CHARTER
Jack Acid, Dj Aquarius, Dj Sunflowerfish, Liquid Acrobat
Rebecca, Fawn

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
D*struct Media / S.P.A.Z. / Drop Bass Network / Freebass Collective

*POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS THAT DO NOT FOLLOW AN ORGANIC TERRESTRIAL
-COSMIC SPIRITUAL VISION, WILL END UP IN MORE PATRIARCHAL DEATH...
Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor

MOBSTR

By Mobstr

KAMTAR

THE SPIRAL BITES BACK

Excerpt from DEMAG (HC UNDERGROUND ZINE) concerning the commercial exploitation of  "Spiral Sound". This issue was also featured in an article by Mark Spiral in Datacide. Find it here: "Teknival - Summer Thunder". 

THE LAST LEGAL SQUAT DOCU

Afgekraakt: De laatste legale kraak!

De kraakdocu waarin Steyn de Leeuwe alle deuren voor je opent tijdens de laatste legale kraakweken!

via 101.tv

THE ORIGIN OF CAPITALISM

The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View
by Ellen Meiksins Wood

In this book Ellen Meiksins Wood reminds us that capitalism is not a natural and inevitable consequence of human nature, nor is it simply an extension of age-old practices of trade and commerce. Rather, it is a late and localized product of very specific historical conditions, which required great transformations in social relations and in the human interaction with nature. This new edition has been substantially revised and expanded, with several new chapters. It contains extensive new material, especially on imperialism, anti-Eurocentric history, capitalism and the nation-state and the differences between capitalism and non-capitalist commerce. The author also traces links between the origin of capitalism and contemporary conditions such as 'globalization,' ecological degradation and the current agricultural.

GRAB IT HERE (right-click/save as)

7/11 - ANTI SQUATTING LAW DEMO @ THE HAGUE (NL)

 7-11-2010 Demonstration against the anti squatting law.

On November the 7th 2010 a demonstration against the law on squatting will be held in The Hague. This law, enacted on the first of October 2010, effectively makes all the squatters in the Netherlands a criminal.

Millions of square meters of empty- and run-down buildings caused by speculation, solely in the name of profit. Massive cuts in social housing without anything to show for. There is a rising number of homeless people and homeless youth. Government- and local policies are degrading living conditions for all of us . Squatting is a fought-for right to counter unjust housing policies and unnecessary vacancies. It is the squatting of these unnecessary empty buildings that gave us the opportunity to create many innovative projects and initiatives like give-away shops, food banks, rehearsal spaces, projects for refugee aid, and a platform for culture and art. We have never squatted because they allowed us but always out of necessity! We are all entitled to a home and social- and cultural centers, not just those with substantial funding! Join the demonstration and raise your voice against the squatting ban and the housing shortage.

Necessity over laws! Squatting will stay!
 

17:00 (GMT+1) @ Kerkplein, The Hauge, Netherlands
web: KSU Den Haag
contact Kraakgroep Haaglanden: kraakgroephaaglanden[at]riseup.net

FRESH ROA

By ROA (Belgium), Torino