Alice in wire - Liveset [july 2007]

Format: File, MP3
Country: Italy
Released: July 2007
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Electro
Total playtime: 55:41
Size : 76 mb
Quality. : 192kbps (lame 3.97)

Tracklisting:
1 break inspire
2 deeptime
3 bypasshead
4 grrr
5 monoketa
6 mashroom in wonderland
7 cyber meditation
8 uhuhuh
9 stash
10 third 2 Rendered
11 dunno why
12 my luv is your luv
13 you are my live
14 ancient soud

audiotrix, point out the new spiral tribe archive site. The sites got thousands of old flyers, backdrops and photos. And there's the http://www.myspace.com/spiraltribe as well. With loads of good links and videos on it!

The Spring of 2002 saw the 10th anniversary of the now legendary Castlemorton Free Festival, the biggest and most notorious free party ever to take place in the UK. The anniversary was celebrated on Jubilee weekend with a massive Teknival on Steart Beach in Somerset. At least 50 rigs and 10, 000 party people gathered on the beach for a five day party to commemorate the creativity and determination of the original sound systems and to celebrate 10-years of underground rave culture. At a time when most of the country was being bored shitless with television specials about the anniversary of the coronation, the Castlemorton anniversary was a powerful reminder that real culture grows from the ground up, and that to stay alive it has to constantly mutate.

It's important to remember Castlemorton because that was where the battle lines were drawn up for many of the struggles of the last decade. The government clampdown that followed the festival , which beagn with the arrest and prosecution of of members of Spiral Tribe for their involvement in the event and culminated in the 1994 Criminal Justice Act, made it clear that the authorities saw the emerging free party community not as just a nuisance but as a political threat. In the following article, one of the defendents in the Castlemorton trial explains the history, and the connection of the free party movement to other struggles to reclaim public space for public use.

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MADELAINE

by Milton C Sidegrinder.
December 1994

Episode 23.1-

I ran out of time at the shrine by the road.

I wanted to stay and see what the Virgin Mother would do next, because so far I hadn't been able to work out what she was up to. She was either dying or looking for a lost item, wringing her hands and looking all around in an orbit more moving than simple clockwork. I suppose I was waiting for her to either to fall over or to give up looking and read some of the notes that people had left for her. For nearly thirty hours, while the rain sank my boots

The Drum Club Interview 1. N2301: What's the most interesting place you've visited? LOL: Tokyo, japan. I loved it being a techno fiend [not a bedroom boffin mind!!]. I loved everything, the architecture, the people, the way they embrace technology and the arts. You don't need drugs out there, I was buzzing for two weeks after we came back. Someone take us back!! 2. N2302: Does dance music need Major labels? LOL: No, I don't think it does, with major labels it's a case of Money first and the music second. They view you as nothing more than a product. I can't think of one bloody decent Major.... maybe Island!! 3. N2303: What's your favourite expression? LOL: "Lost the plot." 4. N2304: Do you think there's life on other planets? LOL: Yes I do. I think it would be very vain for us to presume that we're the only buggers throughout the entire system. 5. N2305: Why don't they reveal themselves to us? LOL: Maybe they have. 6. N2306: What books would you recommend? LOL: Anything by Robert Anton Wilson, anything by Alistair Crowley, the secret history of Donna Tartt and Acid House by Irvine Welsh. How to have a Number one record by the KLF also Focault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco and anything by Iain Banks.

Spiral Tribe and Mutoid Waste, Bedlam etc in the Czech Republic Summer '94 Nel Stroud. The anarchic free party organisers, Spiral Tribe have allied with the Mutoid Waste Company, a group of artists who sculpt with scrap metal and reconstruct abandoned engines, their medium the effluent of modern society, mutating waste to configurations hailing the millenium, all the post apocalyptic iconography of Dan Dare and Mad Max, Robocop and a warrior sensibility whose ancestor may well have been the mighty Beowulf, Spiral Tribe too have crawled from the underside of the facade that is `civilised' life - their creation is music and that too a mutation, sound generated by computers, a vast nightmarish arcade, twenty K of sound and Bass to make your eyes water. there is certainly no ethno vibes no strumming of guitars around camp-fires with soulful memories, no whimsical talk of the hereafter, for if there ever were a group of people into the here, it's these. From this virtual, military world they emerge and that they reflect, wired up, driving riot vans, camped under camo netting, heavy boots and shaven heads. A rapid growth of the popularity of a few parties in England, and a sweeping hysterical paranoia in the minds of the straight population has lead to the witch hunt of Spiral Tribe and their followers. At a party in an empty house in Acton, the Police feigned a sympathetic attitude, and then late in the night, started banging on the walls and came smashing through breeze blocks, batons flailing. They smashed up the musical equipment and knocked people to the ground. The Criminal Justice Bill validates this fascist Bully boy attitude. It legislates Gypsies and travellers, gatherings, peaceful protests, against techno itself- "music wholly or predominantly characterised by a succession of repetative beats". The result is an exodus to the promised land, Europe and beyond; as England tightens the screws, enforces its consumer monoculture of civil obedience, and staticism, the energy of the scene flows out - tendrils of techno energy and here we are, its the late twentieth century and Spiral Tribe and the Mutoids are in a scorching field way out in the Czech Republic, Eastern Europe.