History is made at night

The next issue of Datacide - the magazine for noise and politics - is out this week, and there's a release party and conference to cele...

Looking forward to next Friday's Praxis records party in London, all aboard the MS Stubnitz boat (facebook events details here ) . Pr...

The twelfth issue of Datacide, 'the magazine for noise and politics',  is out today, with 68 pages of stuff you won't find in an...

A global economic crisis is leading to global austerity - yet paradoxically in places at the sharp end populist nationalism is resurgent ami...

At this time of year it is customary to raise a glass to one of Germany's finest music critics: Albrecht (Ali) Höhler (1898-1933). His e...

Some pictures taken in Berlin earlier this month - mostly in Friedrichshain, but I think the last image of the astronaut was in Kreuzberg:

I went to Berlin recently for the launch of the new issue (number 11) of Datacide - 'the magazine for noise and politics'. There we...

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin works on two levels -above ground the 'Field of Stelae' conveys a sense of sca...

Going to be in Berlin next week to do a talk as part of the launch of the new edition of Datacide magazine (number 11), in which I have an ...

Yesterday's post on mandolins and anti-fascist resistance in Warsaw has prompted this response from Ruin Gebirk in Berlin: "I read...

A couple of (related?) new blogs with similar interests to this site: Apples from the Underground - ' blog inspired by the underground ...

An excellent event in Berlin last month (October 31st) to mark the launch of the 10th issue of Datacide magazine (see programme). The venu...

I'm going to be in Berlin on Friday taking part in this... If you're within several hundred miles you should try and make it down! D...

Anita Berber (1899-1928) was a dancer in pre-Nazi Germany, famous/notorious for a life of bisexuality, drugs and semi-naked performance. Wit...

The relationship between music, dance and community is a recurring theme on this site, but the word 'community' has come to be appro...

Advance warning – I will be doing a talk in Berlin on Friday October 31st, part of an event to mark the tenth issue of Datacide zine. Not s...

Another classic article from the zine vaults, again incredibly not already online. 'Decoder: the sound of muzak' by Tom Vague was fi...