IN THE AREA

By Spiral Tribe

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IDEOLOGIE

Het leek of de tegenstelling links-rechts was verdampt. Elk discours herleid tot vlag & wimpel in los zand. Wat zou dan links kunnen zijn aan de bankencrisis? Iedereen bont & blauw, toch?
Globalisering ook zo'n veelkoppig monster zonder plattegrond. Islam? Met aftrek van schunnig populisme, zelfs voor weldenkenden kieren van irrationeel ongemak. Melkkoe van het platte onbehagen: het eindeloze communautaire kluwen, natuurlijk.

Symboolpolitiek. Maar ineens zei bart de wever dat hij een rechtse coalitie voorstaat. Ineens ook blijkt de rechtse Didier Reynders betrouwbaarder dan de linkse Di Rupo, terwijl ze in francofone razernij niet voor elkaar onderdoen. Hallo: links-rechts! Anders dan economisme lijkt het gespletenheid die het hart raakt. In Nederland waar populistisch rechts regeert, schrijnen berichten over ontmanteling van kunsten, zorg, onderwijs... Mark Rutte noemt zijn 'asfaltkabinet' een eretitel. Daar zou een beetje charismatische linkse leider wel raad mee weten. Maar die is er dus niet. Niet in de benelux, niet in Italië, niet in Vlaanderen.
Miterrand had makkelijk praten: "L'europe sera socialiste ou ne sera pas." Dalida coifeerde zijn parades met swing en nostalgie.

Wij hebben Caroline Gennez.

Niets is nog sexy aan links, weinig intellectueel vervuld? Gemakzucht is de duivel. Laat Renaat Landuyt effe hysterisch inhakken op roomse pedofielen, en we zijn weer lekker links. Of hoor hoempapapoeter Van der Maelen galmen tegen fiscale fraude en nestwarmte van rechtvaardigheid lacht ons toe.
Respectabele euforie in de ideologische kinderboerderij, maar de uier blijft wel leeg.
Rechts is gezelliger, zie je ook in de media. Het heeft minder uit te leggen: trek De Wever een zwembroek aan, en Vlaanderen gaat plat. Ik ken er die voor minder zelfmoord plegen, maar alla: waar is het blijmoedige elan van links dat die onzin barricadeert? Waar de galm die het status-quo van ellende verbreekt?

Oorverdovende stilte.

Bron: De morgen, HUGO CAMPS

IEMZA

By IEMZA

BREACH THE PEACE

Old spiral tribe pamflet, click on pic for bigger size!

ADBUSTING

By Eyesaw

PIC OF THE DAY

By Vinca Petersen

TEKNO PIC OF THE DAY

ILLEGAL SOUND RESISTANCE

FREE KIT

By Elfo

THE HUSH BOY

By Spiral Mark

ROA VS SANER

ROA vs SANER - MEXICO

CASTLEMORTON

UK, 1992

CURLEY - ESOTERIC

CURLEY SCHOOP AKA ESOTERIC

Born in Leidschendam Holland 16 April 1973 Curley Schoop spent his childhood years in Curacao (Netherlands Antilles). After moving back to Holland with the family in his teenage years his love for music came into true fruition. At the age of sixteen he released his first record on the DJAX label (D.I.C.E. - rubba dice stylin).

In 1994 he was to travel to Berlin with R.A.F. who were his friends Joep, Katja, and Chiel as well as with his friends Sazz and Ratski where they played on a party of Acid Orange.

By now the entire Spiral Circus had descended on invitation to stay at the 'Blauwe Aanslag' squat in Den Haag, Holland. This is where the infamous Acid Planet parties from Jan, Unit Moebius, Siuli and Guy where happening and where Sebastian (69db) and Simon (Crystal Distortion) from Spiral Tribe together with Unit Moebius were beginning to inspire a whole generation. These happenings were to change everything for Curley as they did for so many from this period.

After returning to Holland the 'Hardcore Peace Generation' was formed. Holland was by now in full party flow, parties and sound systems were springing up all over the place. Curley moved to Den Haag from the south to be in the midst of it all. Time was filled squatting and organizing parties and tekno café’s big and small all over the place. It was in this period Curley was making music together with Jan, Sebastian and Simon. Together a sound was made: that sound would become legendary: 'the Spiral Sound'.

It was somewhere around this time Curley met Barbara who he was to be with for the rest of his life. Holland had much to offer for a young inspiring musician and DJ with its full flow party mayhem from the likes of his friends from Cyb-X and Mononom Soundsytems for whom he would play his legendary mental mix of acid, hardcore and tekno many times.

In 1995 he made the move to London. Barbara was English and Curley was always up for new adventures. Although a far cry from what he knew from the free party scene in Europe Curley would flourish in the diversity of the music in London. New influences were creeping into his Dj sets, breakbeats, drum and bass, the London style. I don't think there are too many recordings from his DJ sets from these times, in fact I don't think you could capture it on a tape, you just had to be there, those that were there know exactly what I am talking about, some things you just can’t capture in a recording.
Curley had the utter ability to ignite a dead party, to whip up a dance floor into free flow mayhem. He never looked the part, a black guy in a predominately white hardcore scene in a funny hat and flared trousers, but he was still somehow the coolest geezer in the building, everybody wanted to talk to him, everybody wanted him on the decks, to hang out with him. Probably some of his finest moments DJ'ing was in those warehouses in London, there he would create his voodoo magic on the wheels of steel.

A lot of people who had not been out to Europe could not understand what he was playing but they loved it. It was a combination of the Spiral sound, the Dutch sound and the London sound all mixed in and mashed up, it was truly unique.
It was in London he would meet Ben and Brett from the Fear Teachers: he would play a lot at their parties together with the Mainline Soundsystem. The Fear Teachers and the surrounding people would be a big influence on Curley. They had been to Europe, they did know what was going on but they had their own sound, their influences were also from electro and more distorted and messed up beats. Curley thrived of these new ways and sounds; he would revel in the London ways of music. Drum and bass were to seriously influence his DJ sets where he would play out together with his friend Beven (Dj Terroreyes) with their three deck mash ups. At this time he releases on Ben and Brett’s Audio Illusion label and made his other classic releases on the Club Craft, Utmostfear and Crowd Control labels.

In 1997, Curley now just twenty four years of age was a proud father happily in love and with his music seriously taking off. By now his DJ gigs were constant, playing out in London and back home in Holland as well as Italy, Germany and France; his records were also now starting to come out in a steady stream. After always releasing on other peoples labels and as he was always wanting to push forwards he decided together with Barbara to start their own label Kibra Hacha. The first release on this label was to be his final one in his lifetime.

After spending Christmas together in London with his new family, Curley & Barbara set off to drive to a big party in Rome Italy for the New Year of 1998. This was to be Curley's final set. In the early hours of the third of January whilst still out in Rome Italy Curley died suddenly in bed of a heart condition he never knew he had. It shocked us all and sent tremors throughout the party scene in Europe. Many tributes were made and several huge memorial parties were made in his honor, in Holland, England and Italy. One of the finest had been taken away in the prime of his life with everything to live for.

Some stars light up the night sky brighter than others, they give off more energy, sometimes those stars will burn out quicker because of this, but those are the stars you remember. In the end it's not how many years you have lived that are important but what you did in those years and Curley lived every minute of his life to the full. I think the following written by his friend Brett after Curley's death says it all:

"Within our creative dance culture there are few people with the active energy and dedicated commitment necessary to keep the scene fresh, vibrant and at the cutting edge. Curley possessed all these powers and spread them like a virus, infecting all who crossed his path with a positive feeling and uniting us all in confidence for the future" (Brett Youngs R.I.P)

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original article here

FESTIVAL BRITTANIA

PART 1

"This documentary tells the story of the emergence and evolution of the British music festival through the mavericks, dreamers and dropouts who have produced, enjoyed and sometimes fought for them over the last 50 years.

The film traces the ebb and flow of British festival culture from jazz beginnings at Beaulieu in the late 50s through to the Isle of Wight festivals at the end of the 60s, early Glastonbury and one-off commercial festivals like 1972's Bickershaw, the free festivals of the 70s and 80s and on through the extended rave at Castlemorton in 1992 to the contemporary resurgence in festivals like Glastonbury, Isle of Wight and Reading in the last decade.

Sam Bridger's film explores the central tension between the people's desire to come together, dance to the music and build temporary communities and the desire of the state, the councils and the locals to police these often unruly gatherings.

At the heart of the documentary is an ongoing argument about British freedom and shifts in the political, musical and cultural landscape set to a wonderful soundtrack of 50 years of great popular music which takes in trad jazz, Traffic, Roy Harper, the Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, Orbital and much more.

Featuring rare archive and interviews with Michael Eavis, Richard Thompson, Acker Bilk, Terry Reid, the Levellers, Billy Bragg, John Giddings, Melvin Benn, Roy Harper, Nik Turner, Peter Jenner, Orbital, amongst others."

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(can only be viewed by residents of the UK it seems..)

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