ZONE OF THE FREE

Sunday, June 20, 2010

LE FACH', LE NAIN, LE..

More at antisarko.net or torapamavoa blog and million other sources.

AND HE WILL ALWAYS BE SHORT, CREEPY LITTLE FUCKER

He should be touring with freak-show instead of trying to be a president.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

SONIC WARFARE

SONIC WARFARE,

TACTICAL SOUNDSYSTEMS

AND THE POST-WORLD

OF GREY FILASTINE

a column by tobias c. Van Veen

Being involved in a conflict, you have the right to use the tools of conflict. That's what a lot of direct action is about. I feel that using this music in this way, as a force, is just using the tools in the toolbox

- Grey Filastine

You can find the column here (excerpt from FUSE Magazine)

PIRATE ART - LOVE FOR THE STREETS

German based streetartistcrew "los piratoz", reclaiming their city Hamburg since years with pirate inspired street art, present now their book "YES we ARRRR"

(preview click here)
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LOVE FOR THE STREETS

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A taste of their art:

Interview (in German) can be found here

Their myspace right here

K1TAL - DRUMTEK

DRUMTEK is a mix by K1TAL and has been on one of my drives for ages. I keep forgetting about it, but it is nice to rediscover it once and a while. Still loving it.. According to the artist this set contains 'drum influenced' hardtekno.. agreed!

GRAB IT HERE

(or here - opendir)

ATTACK OF THE HAPPY PEOPLE

by Nadav Harel

Ecstasy, which started out as a psychotherapeutic drug, has now become one of the most consumed recreational drugs around. This film by Nadav Harel documents the flourishing ecstasy party culture in Israel today. Navel says that Israel has one of the world's highest drug consumption rates. Affected by wars, an aggressive marketplace economy and very powerful religious forces, young people in Israel escape their harsh reality through excessive drug consumption. Ecstasy is particularly widespread. Many of the young Israelis interviewed for this documentary refer to it as “the drug of love” and say that when you're on it “everything becomes rosy; you're in a fantasy world; you love everyone you see...” This program features experts who believe in the therapeutic uses of the drug and also opponents of the drug who believe ecstasy use characterizes our consumer-driven society, as many products such as music, clothes, dance parties and so on are being promoted through this drug trend.

http://rapidshare.com/files/395181296/Attack.of.The.Happy.People.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/395205417/Attack.of.The.Happy.People.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/395229697/Attack.of.The.Happy.People.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/395254349/Attack.of.The.Happy.People.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/395278018/Attack.of.The.Happy.People.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/395279096/Attack.of.The.Happy.People.part6.rar

Friday, June 18, 2010

CHOAS > ORDER

"Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds. "

From T.A.Z. ("The Temporary Autonomous Zone") by Hakim Bey

(click the know more about the book)

DUMPSTER DIVE CARTOON

Click on image for bigger size!

Find an ebook on dumpster diving right here

BANKSY ON COPS

THE SHOCK DOCTORINE DOCU

The Shock Doctrine is the latest documentary from acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom, co-directed by Mat Whitecross. Based on Naomi Klein's bestselling book, The Shock Doctrine argues that America's 'free market' policies have come to dominate the world through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. Both the film and the book argue that governments all over the world exploit natural disasters, economic crises and wars to push through radical free market policies. Klein calls this 'disaster capitalism' and in her view, disaster capitalism is as effective as psychiatric shock therapy at wiping our collective memory. The film concludes that the result is often catastrophic for ordinary people and hugely beneficial to big corporations. The documentary also adds to Klein's thesis - which was written before the recent market turmoil - and includes an analysis of how the financial world got into its current troubled state.

Directed by Mat Whitecross & Michael Winterbottom

http://rapidshare.com/files/377940909/The.Shock.Doctorine.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/377957521/The.Shock.Doctorine.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/377979254/The.Shock.Doctorine.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/377999593/The.Shock.Doctorine.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/378016800/The.Shock.Doctorine.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/378035495/The.Shock.Doctorine.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/378058052/The.Shock.Doctorine.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/378074486/The.Shock.Doctorine.part8.rar

The book itself by Noami Klein was posted here a while ago. Use the labels to navigate to it or just.. click here :D

Thursday, June 17, 2010

PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION

by Alfred Guzzetti, Susan Meiselas & Richard P. Rogers

In this lively, intellectually stimulating discourse on the power of images, renowned photojournalist Susan Meiselas returns to the scenes of a revolution she witnessed and captured with her camera. Richly suffused with context and color, PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION catches up with the places and people behind Meiselas' iconic photographs of war-torn Nicaragua in the late 70s and 80s. Delving into the lives of guerrillas, Sandinistas, and bystanders, scattered from Miami to Managua, a decade after they faced off in a bloody struggle, this artful film finds both disappointment and modest pride amidst still-fresh, stirring memories. Once photographed wielding contact bombs and marching in the streets, these incredible Nicaraguans now live much as they did before the revolutionary days. The stories behind the acclaimed photos will ignite a new understanding of social struggle while inviting reflection on the war photographer's complex relationship with her subjects.

CORBO - DELIRE PERCEPTIBLE LIVESET

Another liveset by Corbo from the Dislokés crew. The video above features the beginning of this recording performed at the crew anniversary party on a 35Kw rig in October last year. Below you can download the complete set. Expect an über-chill mental tribe experience with a good flow perfect for the current weather these days..

35Kw rig

His most recent liveset was posted earlier, grab it here in case you missed it.

>> DELIRE PERCEPTIBLE

(right click - save as)

CORBO - liveaction

Monday, June 14, 2010

HEAR HEAR!

"Calling all Systems, cyclists, pedestrians,
Road Ravers and road ragers,
workers and shirkers,
dreamers and schemers,
unhappy shoppers,
happy shoplifters
kids, crusties, punks and prophets.
the young at heart...
Let's take back our streets on Saturday 6th June
from the relentless traffic of pollution and consumption.
Let's transform the streets into a place of human interaction
...a football match ...a dance ...the distribution of free food...an exchange of free thoughts...
A celebration for our diversity.
Come and get involved with a South London Street Party
...organizing, publicizing, banner making, blockading, contributing to a kids area,
bringing music, theater, spreading the word...
Come to weekly meeting on Wednesday night."

A call for unity and action from a old Reclaim the Streets pamphlet in London.

Sunday, June 13, 2010

VOTING

POLITICS

(click to enlarge)

An quick collage I pooped out to express my current thoughts...

"...the deeper you dig

the dirtier it gets..."

DON'T

FOOLED

GET

INFORMED!

Saturday, June 12, 2010

MEN LIKE GODS

A novel by H.G. Wells (1923)

Mr Barnstaple was ever such a careful driver, careful to indicate before every man-oeuvre and very much in favor of slowing down at the slightest hint of difficulty. So however could he have got the car into a skid on a bend on the Maidenhead road? When he recovered himself he was more than a little relieved to see the two cars that he had been following still merrily motoring along in front of him. It seemed that all was well - except that the scenery had changed, rather a lot. It was then that the awful truth dawned: Mr Barnstaple had been hurled into another world altogether. How would he ever survive in this supposed Utopia, and more importantly, how would he ever get back?

Read it here (via Project Gutenberg)

If you don't know who H.G. Wells is, then maybe the picture below will ring a bell. It is from another famous story by him.. take a guess.

1989.. THE SUMMER OF RAVE

The Summer of 1989 saw a new type of youth rebellion transform the cultural landscape, as thousands of young people danced at illegal acid house parties in fields and aircraft hangars. Featuring interviews with rave promoters, newspaper editors, and the bands who made it big on the back of rave culture.

The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-91 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed rave parties. The term generally refers to both the summers of 1988/89 when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug ecstasy fueled an explosion in youth culture culminating in mass free parties and the era of the rave. LSD was also widely available and popular again. The music of this era fused dance beats with a psychedelic, 1960s flavor, and the dance culture drew parallels with the hedonism and freedom of the Summer of Love in San Francisco two decades earlier. Similarities with the Sixties included fashions such as flares, Tie-dye and male long hair. The smiley logo is synonymous with this period in the UK.

The first program in this strand, on the Summer of Love (1967), managed to annoy some who were there (superficial and glib) and some who weren't (a fuss over nothing). This episode about 1989 is also in serious danger of overstating the importance of the moment. Isn't it just a bit fatuous to compare the liberation of illegal M25-accessible raves with the fall of the Berlin Wall or the students facing the tanks in Tienanmen Square? Still, there's plenty of genuine enthusiasm from the assorted DJ's, party organizers, haggard Mancunian musicians and ravers who danced on Ecstasy as Thatcher-ism began to crumble. And if, as claimed, the rave scene killed off violent football hooliganism,it was all worthwhile.

GRAB IT HERE (right click/save as)

Friday, June 11, 2010

SECRET OF

STEFAN [ZMK] vs MARTHA [ZMK] @ ANTISTATIK

StefanZMK vs MarthaZMK @ ANTISTATIK [Ad Noiseam Label Night]
08-12-2007

GRAB IT HERE

WHY ORWELL WROTE "1984"

Eric Blair, pseudonym George Orwell, was a master writer and story teller. He wrote his first poem at the age of four or five, by dictation to his mother. In the last sixteen years of his life (born in 1903 - died in 1950) he wrote nine major books and 700 essays and articles.

In the essay WHY I WRITE, published in 1947, Orwell says:

"...In a peaceful age I might have written ornate or merely descriptive books, and might have remained almost unaware of my political loyalties. As it is I have been forced into becoming a sort of pamphleteer. First I spent five years in an unsuitable profession (The Indian Imperial Police, in Burma), and then I underwent poverty and the sense of failure. This increased my natural hatred of authority and made me for the first time fully aware of the existence of the working classes, and the job in Burma had given me some understanding of the nature of imperialism: but these experiences were not enough to give me an accurate political orientation. Then came Hitler, the Spanish Civil War, etc. By the end of 1935 I had still failed to reach a firm decision. The Spanish war and other events in 1936-37 turned the scale and thereafter I knew where I stood. Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it. It seems to me nonsense, in a period like our own, to think that one can avoid writing of such subjects. Everyone writes of them in one guise or another. It is simply a question of which side one takes and what approach one follows. And the more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity."

"...I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. ...Of late years I have tried to write less picturesquely and more exactly. ANIMAL FARM was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole. I hope to write another fairly soon. It is bound to be a failure, every book is a failure, but I do know with some clarity what kind of book I want to write. ..."

As we all know, the book Orwell went on to write was "1984". It has since been translated into 62 languages and it, along with ANIMAL FARM, had sold more than 40 million copies by 1984. In the USA it sold 1,000 copies a day that year. Quoting Orwell again from WHY I WRITE:

"...All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. ..."

Not only figuratively but also literally was the writing of "1984" like a bout of some painful illness for George Orwell. Throughout its writing he was fighting tuberculosis and was at times admitted to the hospital where his typewriter was taken away from him. Undaunted he sat in bed, propped up on pillows, and wrote in longhand with ball-point pen. He was administered a newly developed drug to which he developed a severe allergic reaction. His skin flaked, his mouth became painfully ulcerated, his hair and nails fell out. After several months recuperating in the sanitorium Orwell returned to his home on the remote Scottish island of Jura, one of the most inaccessible spots in the British Isles, and finished writing "1984" in December 1948. He then went immediately back into hospital and was never again healthy enough to be discharged. "1984" was published in June 1949 and Orwell died seven months later on January 21st, 1950, at the age of 46.

In "1984" George Orwell describes how a hierarchical world tyranny is set up, how it stays in power, how it treats its people, and what life is like living under such a system. "1984" is in fact a coded blueprint for world tyranny, laying bare its structure and exposing its components.

Orwell wrote "1984" for us, the future, in the hope we would recognize the signs and symptoms of tyrannical world government and prevent its establishment in our world. Let's make sure he did not write in vain. ~ Jackie Jura

Source: orwelltoday.com

Thursday, June 10, 2010

MIKROTEK - LIVEACTION

Pumpin' hardtekno by Mikrotek from the Austrian Mindestns crew. Dancefloor material!

Mikrotek - LIVEACTION (our host)

Mikrotek - SIDESHOWDY (ext. host)

More Mindestns sound can be found here

THE PIRATE SHIPS

Learn about ships such as the "Jolly Roger", who terrorized the high seas in the 17th and 18th centuries.

This program recounts the reign and the swift, agile, and dangerous pirate ships that were the scourge of the high seas during the golden age of piracy in the late 17th and early 18 centuries. The JOLLY ROGER, with its terrifying skull and crossbones ensign, struck fear in the hearts of sailors everywhere. The adventure and rebellion of the pirate life, as well as these colorful mend and their ships, have earned them a place in the popular imagination.

A History Channel documentary.

http://rapidshare.com/files/274553452/TPS.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274553519/TPS.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274550668/TPS.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274553869/TPS.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274550992/TPS.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274549866/TPS.part6.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274553691/TPS.part7.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/274537491/TPS.part8.rar