DT MAIN FILE 1/25/99 7:51 PM Page 1 COMINÕ ON STRONG WITH THE STRENGTH OF A HURRICANE! THE DEADLY TYPE! ISSUE #1 ISSUE #1 FREE FREE FOR ALL!L FOR ALL!L RE-DEFINING HARDCORE!p.4 YOUR PROPAGANDA DRUGGED AND CLASS FUTURE! HOSTILITY P.14 P.11 BURROUGHS/ PRAXIS GYSIN RECORD'S TOGETHER C. FRINGELLI AGAIN! P.6 INTERVIEWP.8 Y2K:THE THE ASTRO- MORPHING LOGICAL FORECAST CULTURE! P.10 P.5 TECHNO HARDCORE GENDER RECORD DE-CON- STRUCTION REVIEWS P.5 P.16 READ BEFORE INFORMTION YOU GO...A "JAIL WARFARE! PRIMER! P.12 P.13 THE DEADLY SYSTEMS NEWSLETTER EXPOSED! EVERYTHING IS THE OPPOSITE OF EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER BEEN TAUGHT! P.29 1 DT MAIN FILE 1/25/99 7:51 PM Page 2 money. So you could say that the rave scene was truly assimilated on just about all fronts by the mainstream. This WHY THE aggravated a problem of mis-concep- tion for the music itself . Most people being introduced to Hardcore had no idea about the ideas surrounding it-or DEADLY that there even were any! To most peo- ple, even a few making music they claimed was “hardcore”, it was just fast, noizy, and supposed to piss you off. This is retarded. Nothing can be further TYPE? from the truth, and that is why “The Deadly Type” exists today, to re-define Hardcore. Firstly, “RE” as to do it again, -by Deadly Buda as people are not even aware of it’s influences, history or forgot the entire The original reason for this social context. Secondly to re-claim the newspaper’s existence was that of a mail order form. My record label, I have had to watch Deadly Systems, needed to sell more records, and thus, needed more expo- chumps IÕve blown off PRE-PRINT EDITORIAL sure to it’s potential customers. The essential problem was, that there was the decks previously, no reliable print venues in the United and still could, make States that were covering Hardcore AND PUBLISHING INFO IN Techno-Rave Music. Granted, a few more money than me, magazines will have the occasional regional section or record review, but and listen to snotty THIS SPACE... most don’t even address the fact that it is a genre, despite the fact they would- nosed 14 year olds tell n’t be around without hardcore’s contri- bution to the scene from the very get- me how great the go! This just added insult to injury for chemical brothers are... me, because as one of the American Rave Scenes pioneers, I have had to genre from some of the moronic dolts watch chumps I’ve blown off the decks on the right, that want to tie it’s dodgy previously, and still could, make more ideolgies such as Nazism, Racism and money than me, and listen to snotty Homophobia to the music. Third-to take nosed 14 year olds tell me how great the the music and culture a step further. the chemical brothers are, and general- Where that is, I hope will be directly ly watched a scene I was intimately aided by the newsletter. involved with get flushed down the toilet -DEADLY BUDA by a bunch of sell-outs and back-stab- bers. Pissed-Off? Fuck-Yeah. This phenomena is generally what happens in our society these days, in just about any field involving 2 DT MAIN FILE 1/25/99 7:51 PM Page 3 DEADLY SYSTEMS RELEASES WHEN WE SAY ÒRELEASEÓ-WE MEAN IT! DEMAND THEM AT YOUR LOCAL RECORD SHOP! OR PURCHASE THEM AND SELECT IMPORTS AT OUR WEBSITE HTTP://WWW.DEADLYSYSTEMS.COM DSCD-1 ÒTHE DYNAMOÓ DS VINYL-CUT LOUD FOR MAX SYSTEMS! DSCD-1 DEADLY BUDA- UNIVERSAL DYNAMO MIX CD DS-001 DEADLY BUDA Straight mixing out the OUT OF STOCK! decks! No edits! 37 cuts CHECK THE USED OR in 60 minutes! Classics of Global Hardcore! 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DS-006 SOMATIC RESPONSE...OUT SOON!!! DS-007 PRAXIS U.S.A 2x12"OUT SOON!!! 3 DT MAIN FILE 1/25/99 7:51 PM Page 4 raves’ social, spiritual, and creative ele- end, there are hundreds of parties that involved thought that someone else ments. The term was consciously claim to be part of the “tribal united was pocketing it somewhere down the THE HARDCORE assimilated (of course) from the punk future of technology, love, peace, cre- line. In almost every city everywhere in movement’s do-it-yourself ideals. In ativity,” etc. The parties are, in fact, Europe and America that I have been fact, the hijacking of technology, the sponsored, pushed, or influenced by to, it’s the same story. Friends were SITUATION repetitive shamanic dance rhythms, the the entire corporate-consumer structure now enemies and competitors in many By DJ Deadly Buda Internet, the DJ mixing, etc., were all that the original rave scene was trying situations, all the more ironic because a considered “core” elements in their to change or escape. From this point lot of these parties were called “Unity”! What is HARDCORE? respective genres. This further on, I must say that what follows are my That was bad enough, but soon, every ingrained the adjective “Hardcore” in opinions based on my personal experi- club and bar was propping up a “rave The adjective “Hardcore” gener- the early rave movement, as it con- ence and observations in the rave night” playing music that was pretty ally refers to something’s most basic spired to combine what it considered scene over the last decade. As one of much just playing American club music. fundamental elements, its original rea- the strongest elements into a new form. the rave scene’s pioneers and original Furthermore, the clubs in most cities son for being, its natural state in rela- So “Hardcore” in relation to promoters, DJs, record store owners, were trying to actively crush the rave tion to existence. Oxford’s American raves, refers to the creative arts’ explo- artists, musicians, zine and article writ- scene and assimilate it for itself. In Dictionary’s first definition for “hard ration of spirituality, achieving a social ers, I have witnessed first-hand that most cases people were actively physi- core” is “irreducible nucleus” and the cohesion within the larger society. which I relay. cally beat-down for passing out flyers, second is “the most active or committed In order to achieve this, What was to become the rave or in some cases followed and beat up members of a society”. Since such defi- “Hardcore” must constantly explore new scene was at its very initial stages at their own homes! Many of these nitions are flattering to one’s or a clubs were essentially big money laun- group’s ego, the adjective “Hardcore” is ...So you now have the interesting situation dering machines for organized crime, thrown around loosely with abandon, and the rave promoters were seen as often used to describe pale imitations of where old music is new, and new music is old. stepping on their turf. And of course, in the real thing. “Hardcore” in relation to all cities, there was generally an antag- rave culture or “electronica” (or whatev- As if the concept of sonic innovation was some- onism with the police. er the major media conglomerates All of these problems played a deem to call it at the present time) is how totally out-dated, and pressing out watered- role in transforming the rave scene into often misused, as stated above, or that which it rebelled against, but in my ignored altogether, in order to obscure down homogenized dance music as if you were opinion, the majority of the problems the rave culture’s origins and replace McDonalds was somehow cutting edge... stemmed from the internal fighting, them with those that are deemed more back-stabbing and betrayals within the commercially suitable to a perceived scene itself. This is not a problem that mainstream audience. Thus, it becomes is unique to the rave scene, it hap- necessary to have a mutually agreed pened with disco, with the hippies, and upon definition of the word “Hardcore” punk rock; eventually everyone seems — not only to expose some of the short to sell out. Idealism is replaced with history of the phenomenon to those that opportunism, which then leads to con- may not have been around during the sumerism, and then ends up disillusion- formative years, but also to refresh the ism. collective memory of those that were. Looking back, a poignant mem- The “Raves” of the early 90s ory was when I was having a meeting had some very basic elements: with a bunch of people about a party 1.