issue 13 unlucky? or just that stage you go through when you’re bratty, unstable and won’t speak nicely to your parents...? contents porn weird games jazz reviews typos adverts hiphop 21 jump street christopher atkins 2ser,rephlex frigid & fromage present edi…orial quick rephlexes This issue was going to have an overview of the results of last month’s survey but I can hardly get around to typing in the simple names and addresses of everyone who has replied let alone compile a database of restaurants and fave tracks. Suffice to say that we’ve heeded some of your suggestions and also ignored others, and we’re mightly BABY FORD pleased at the number of you who actually managed to read the fine print and get off with your arses to respond. Of course, everyone who didn’t won’t be reading this so if you QUARK KENT have friends who ‘used to get Cyclic’ then get the lazy fuckers to send back the question- edited by CYLOB naire. It’s even available as a form on the web for easy automatic submission dale and yellow peril SUB BASS SNARL (www.snarl.org). MIKE DRED SIR ROBBO The other night I was sitting back watching the TV when this nifty little short film from designed by the BBC came on the ABC called Loved Up. Dating from way back in 1995 it was about dale & guests the descent into rave-world, complete with remarkably good music of the time (Leftfield, IG88 Sabres, Hardfloor) and no overtly moralistic preaching about the “dangers of drugs”. It cyclic website was kind of disturbing to see the two main characters popping Es like they were aspirin, from Rephlex Records UK doing lines of coke and speed everyday, but the film focussed more on the fucked-up-ness richard & richard of the main characters lives prior to rave and gave their risk taking some kind of ‘rationale’. Not that you should need any really. Anyway why I am telling you this is written by because I’ve been thinking over the last few months about how everyone has become sunday october 24 7pm to midnight ‘straight edge’, and being ‘straight edge’ is the big new thing. It seems as if the yellow peril ‘underground’ has moved away from overt drug taking (except pot) and now say crap like dale $10 presale from Red Eye, Reachn & The Globe Red Eye, from $10 presale ‘man, I don’t need drugs, I just need the music’. In my thoughts I’ve come to the idea that tim levinson this is a kind of backlash to the influx of kids into the parties (and drug taking) just after Anna Wood’s death in 1995. There is substantial research to show that Ecstasy neural consumption rose dramatically among young teenagers immediately following the publicity lascivious g string of Anna Wood. We also know that a lot of us decided to distance ourselves and our degrassi fromage music from ‘rave’ at that point. Maybe it became a class and age thing at that stage too two floors two floors - 2ser fm 107 radio undeground tune to on the door. more 379 King St Newtown, Venue The Globe — here were suburban young teens intruding on what had, up until then, been a relatively defined culture with its own un-advertised codes of conduct and secret copying, folding, knowledge. What annoyed me at the time was the way in which people suddenly started stapling and stuffing talking about the ‘music’ as something able to be separated from the atmosphere and event of the rave (or whatever you now called it). The goodness or otherwise of music is the cryo crew with the entirely dependent upon the environment and circumstances you hear it in. Whether or long suffering monkey- not one ‘needs to be on drugs to like it’ is irrelevant and diverts us away from the very boy at the helm legitimate feelings of euphoria many of us felt when on Ecstasy hearing particular tracks that at the time rocked for no other reason than their synergy with the drug and event thanks to atmosphere. newcastle young Further, the resurgence of hip hop as a marker of ‘underground-ness’ seems to have writer’s festival for brought a more depressing straight-edged-ness to the ‘underground’. Hip hop, at least in being so young and 2000.1 America, has followed the lead of the BlackIf you Panthers move, in the or 1960s, want in their to opposition to psychedelics. Ask any hip hop head aboutcontribute, Ecstasy and they comment are likely to give or you foul writerly...chris atkins’ looks. Why? Maybe because it breaks down the ‘hard man’ image, or maybe because pubes and dee snider advertise, please contact Ecstasy and acid both have the potential to break down the rugged America pioneer indi- from twisted sister for vidualism that hip hop is built upon andthe expose editors: a more fluid and loose notion of self and community. Maybe also because it moves away from the ‘real’ and into the ‘surreal’. And appearing on the the best hip hop has always been the stuff which has embraced the absurd and the cover sound: surreal. In the electronic underground [email protected] are now being written without the imperatives and flow of the psychedelicor experience which on one hand is making for more Advertising sub bass snarl ‘song-like’ tracks which have wider ‘song’ appeal and are more acceptable on the radio; CRYOGENESIS 2000.1 SUNDAY DECEMBER 12 but on the otherhand, are moving [email protected] into the dead-end roads of rock auteur-ism. inquiries can be tooth (live) 11AM to 8PM Perhaps it’s a venue thing too, but I’m not sure that a straight-edge underground is directed to the editors sir robbo vs neural necessarily the way forward. Neither, though, is a retreat to the manic Ecstasy day(ze) of (see below) or to yore. Think about why you AREN’T takingor, Ecstasy if you and acid.must The next issue of Cyclic will be Island-style for landlubbers 5000 fingers of dr t (live) the ‘drugs’ issue. jordan spence at Sub Bass Snarl, [email protected] quark kent (live) On the website, too, Richard Byers and I have been busy doing an overhaul of the Cyclic advance invitations only. pages and Richard has already convertedPO issue Box 12 andA2073 possibly by the time you read WEBSITE seymour butz this, issue 13 to a proper web format. 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Since the reviews by neural gig, I’ve heard so many glowing reports of Koolism (last I heard, With the latest onslaught of re-issues some folk were planning to erect a hitting our shores, Jazz has once again become the innovative music, seeping shrine near Next Level), something POLES into so many styles. It’s not just the about consumer demand... sound, it’s the experimentation of jazz. With that, people slowly left. 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It’s funny how natural into the microphones, and we declined to have a ‘who’s from The Isle Of Wight are talented To an outsider like myself, in a some great tunes in the 60s and 70s, it sounds to use the analogy of a foetus popping into the most handsome rapper’ competition, I think because players as well as producers. Anything showcased here as Jazz-Rock tunes existence when referring to a chilled out night of hip hop the other two were pretty scared I’d win, hands down. culture which sometimes seems to on this label is worth a listen. be defined by accents, and elements mainly from the 70s. Every track is a at Frigid. Anyway....ummm, oh yeah. ‘So’. Everybody Some superb scratching from ALF brought tears to my killer, gems by Mike Nock, George that sometimes resemble strict who wasn’t there asks. ‘How did everything go?’ Very eyes and cheers from the crowd.