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written by Jason Skeet and Howard Slater and
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„Sound invades us, impels us, drags us, transpierces us... it takes leave of the earth...It
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circulated as flyers (and a record insert) in
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makes us want to die. Ecstasy and hypnosis.
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'''London 1994-96'''
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Colours do not move a people. Flags can do
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re-published 2012 in '''datacide twelve'''
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nothing without trumpets”
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'''http://datacide.c8.com'''
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Deleuze & Guattari – Thousand Plateaus
  
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TechNET is a multi-personal affirmation of
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techno that seeks to elaborate and propel
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the continued outbursts of psycho-social
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tumult that this music is creating. Never
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numbered or dated, each issue of Tech-
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NET could be the first or the last. Always
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at a beginning and always incomplete,
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TechNET is a “glorified flyer” that is given
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away at parties, deposited in record shops
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and sent out along the third rail. What follows are re-mixed and re-connected compositions sampled from TechNET tracks.
  
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'''NOISE AND POLITICS - TECHNET MIX NOISE AND POLITICS - TECHNET MI'''
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'''Positive Futurism'''
  
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The following samples are taken from the book
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We could begin anywhere. A history would
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Noise: '''The Political Economy of Music''' by Jacques Attali. The open ended ideas in
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be too obvious and would imply that
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the writing can be used to comment on any form of music, but we have found it  
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techno's creative phase was over, that it
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useful to connect it to the subversive, autonomous and political implications of techno.
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was now time to juggle with rarity. Such
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It is a book of contradictions and enigmas - not least those
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attempts at a genealogy of techno, a hierarchical archeology, or a precise pinpointing of musicians would prohibit an
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concerning the author himself: a former advisor to François Mitterand he was lately the  
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understanding of the simultaneity of multiple codes, the overlapping between styles
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Head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development before he was
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and forms. Techno cannot be allotted a
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forced to resign from his post because of scandals surrounding the amount of funds
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place as either pop or an avant-garde
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he had spent on furnishings for his office in Broadgate and his own private jet plane.
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music – on the whole it doesn't take
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With this in mind Noise is the testament to the way that it is possible to use language to
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refuge in art and slips away from categorisation as the net of naming is unfurled. It
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fabricate an aura of radicalism whilst remaining reactionary (ie. He is an
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avoids the discipline of nostalgia which
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academic). Or the book may be a heartfelt outburst, the secret scribblings of an
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keeps people in the thrall of the past, unable to even think of the future but always
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aide tramping the corridors or power and smelling smoke...
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referring back. Nostalgia is a language of
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Or...a book 132 pages long
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lack, a language that fills people with longings for a past that never happened, a
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present that never comes, for the gift that
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never arrives.
  
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Our science has always desired to monitor, measure,abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise
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'''No More Words'''
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and that death alone is silent...Noise bought, sold or prohibited '''(„wholly or predominantly characterised by an emission of
 
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repetetive beats“ - Clauses 58/60 CJB)'''...Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.
 
  
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Among sounds, music as an autonomous production is a recent invention. Ambiguous and fragile, ostensibly secondary and of minor importance it has invaded our world and daily life. Today it is unavoidable, as if, in a world now devoid of meaning a background noise were increasingly necessary to give people a sense of security.
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Techno music opens up a space for a critique of language or at least it raises the
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issue of power inherent in language. A rejection of words in the form of vocals to a
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Music heralds, for it is prophetic. It obliges us to invent categories and new dynamics to regenerate social theory, which has become entrapped. Music makes mutations audible. It has always been in its essence a herald of times to come...if it is true that the political organisation of the twentieth century is rooted in the political thought of the nineteenth, the latter is almost entirely
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song allows the listener a far more open
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present in embryonic form in the music of the eighteenth century.
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field of exploration, a space where it is
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possible to discover those immanent
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More than colours and forms, it is sounds and their arrangements that fashion societies. With noise is born disorder and its opposite: the world. With music is born power and its opposite: subversion. In noise we can read the codes of life, the relations among people. Clamour, Melody, Dissonance, Harmony. It is at the heart of the progressive rationalisation of aesthetics,
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thoughts that are beyond syntax. For
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and it is a refuge for a residual irrationality; it is a means of
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words guide us to order, they instil in us
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power and a form of entertainment.
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the need to have others speak for us; they
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make us receptive to the fixity of imposed
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meaning...a living and illicit speech where
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listening is not judged as passive but part
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of a process of communication. The letter
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kills the spirit, life in general is mobility itself.
  
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Any theory of power today must include a theory of the localisation of noise and its endowment with form. Equivalent to the articulation of a space, it indicates the limits of a territory and the way to make oneself heard within it, how to survive by drawing one’s sustenance from it. And since noise is the source of power, power has always listened to it with fascination.
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'''What Is Heard In Sound Is The Non - Face'''
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Eavesdropping, censorship, recording and surveillance are weapons of power. The technology of listening in on, ordering, transmitting and recording noise is at the heart of the apparatus. To listen, to memorise - this is the ability to interpret and control history, to manipulate the culture of a people, to control its violence and hopes.
 
  
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The theorists of totalitarianism have all explained, indistinctly, that it is necessary to ban subversive noise because it betokens demands for cultural autonomy, support for differences or marginality: a concern for maintaining tonalism, the primacy
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Techno is an open secret, an anonymous
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of melody, a distrust of new languages, codes, or instruments, a refusal of the abnormal - these characteristics are common to all
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pool of power. Faceless and from no-place
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totalitarian regimes. They are direct translations of the political importance of cultural repression and noise control...to make
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it encourages us to immerse ourselves in
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music tranquil, reassuring and calm.
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its dynamism, to be aligned and arrayed
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with everyone, to be cut through and enlarged by all that input, all those mute articulations. Records issued under a variety
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Everywhere we look, the monopolisation of the broadcast of messages, control of noise, and the institutionalisation of
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of names and composed by packs resist
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the silence of others assure the durability of power. Musical distribution techniques are today contributing to the establishment of a system of eavesdropping and social surveillance channels for the circulation of orders. The monologue of standardised, stereotyped music accompanies and hems in a daily life in which no one had the right to speak anymore.
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moves to codify and canonise, challenging
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the celebrity-machine that functions as a
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The distinction between musician and non-musician undoubtedly represents one of the very first divisions of labour, one of the very first social differentiations in history, even predating the hierarchy of class. What is called music today is all too often only a disguise for the monologue of power. Music now seems hardly more than a somewhat clumsy excuse for the self-glorification of musicians and the growth of a new industrial sector, the channelisation of desire into commodities to such an extreme as to become a caricature.
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visible indexation of 'success'. 'Stars'
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imply an upward mobility, they spawn
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But a subversive strain of music has always managed to survive, subterranean and pursued, the inverse image of noise control: popular music, an instrument of the ecstatic cult,and outburst of uncensored violence. Here music is a locus of subversion, a transcendence of the body. At odds with the official religions and centres of power, these gatherings of marginals have at turns been tolerated, offered integration into official culture and brutally repressed '''("13 people were arrested after 70 police in riot gear surrounded a derelict block offlats...barricaded by 200 party goers, some of whom threw missiles" - Liverpool, 1991).''' Music, the quintessential mass activity, like the crowd, is simultaneously a threat and a necessary source of legitimacy: trying to channel it is a risk that every system of power must run.
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sycophantic imitators, idol builders and
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“faces on the scene”. Increasingly now the
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We are condemned to silence - unless we create our own relation with the world and try to tie other people into the meaning we thus create. That is what composing is. Doing soley for the sake of doing. Inventing new codes, inventing the message at the same time as the language. Playing for ones own pleasure which alone can create the conditions for new communication. A concept such as this relates to the emergence of the free act, self-transcendence, pleasure in being instead of having.
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music industry attempts to make big time
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profits from the previously unmarketable
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Composition thus appears as a negation of the division of roles and labour as constructed by the old codes. To listen to music in the network of composition is to rewrite it. The listener is the operator.
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faceless techno bollocks. Singled out.
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Captured. Careering.
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Composition, then, beyond the realm of music calls into question the distinction between the worker and consumer, between doing and destroying; its beginning can be seen today, incoherent and fragile, subversive and threatened, in techno’s anxious questioning of repetition, in its foreshadowing of the death of the specialist.
 
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'''Unlike previous forms in popular
 
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music techno has concentrated on
 
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being an instrumental music and as
 
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such almost defies writing that
 
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attempts to discuss it. Words are
 
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useless, unable to define the effects
 
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that sound frequencies and speeds of
 
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beats have on the mind and body.
 
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The content and form of the music
 
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combine into meanings
 
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that lie beyond words.'''
 
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'''NO MORE WORDS'''
 
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A rejection of words in the form of vocals to
 
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a song allows the listener a far more open
 
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field of exploration, a space where it is possible to discover those immanent thoughts
 
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that are beyond syntax..you enter a room
 
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and perceive something as already there,
 
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as just having happened, even though it
 
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has not yet been done. For words guide us
 
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to order, they instill in us the need to have
 
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others speak for us; they make us receptive to the fixity of imposed meaning. If
 
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being without words is meaningless then
 
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techno hints at the possibility of any and all
 
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meaning...a living and illicid speech where
 
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listening is not judged as passive but part
 
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of a process of communication. Techno
 
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evades the exhausted vocabulary mouthed
 
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by lyricists and legislators, anarchists and
 
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authoritarians.
 
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When words do appear in techno they are
 
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sampled from elsewhere. They become another noise element in the layers of
 
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sounds, to add to the energy of the music,
 
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for humour or a defiant pose. Sampling offers the possibility that the world is audible,
 
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available for everyone to continually rearrange, re-mix and fuck up...you do not
 
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feel yourself lately. Or you feel like another
 
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self. Techno also points to an outcome of
 
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digital technology that originals of things no
 
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longer exist. In this fibre space of endless
 
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copying, control over ownership of ideas
 
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becomes completely unenforceable.
 
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Techno is dynamic, ever changing, always
 
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on the move and never finished. Records
 
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are re-mixed together by DJs to create new
 
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compositions. There is never a final product. Everyone has their own top ten or can
 
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disperse with the notion of a rating systems
 
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altogether. A techno party is something
 
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more than entertainment, the relationship
 
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between consumer and product is pushed
 
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to a limit where they merge...you change all
 
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the time, nobody knows where you’re at,
 
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not even you...and nostalgia for an alphabet fades in the rapid path of strobelights.
 
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Speed increases, space expands, a new
 
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culture emerges...a culture of aphasia in
 
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which ideas and identities slip and slide
 
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constantly...if you close your eyes you lose
 
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the power of abstraction. We stumble
 
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across limits to conceptualising, it is time to
 
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learn how to judge society by its sounds
 
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and not by its words.
 
  
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'''listener as operator'''
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'''Inside the Crowd'''
  
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‘I do not write experimental music...my experimenting is done before I make my
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''Techno parties have no centre, no focal
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music. Afterwards it is the listener who must experiment’.
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point.'' Crowds have never written their
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Edgar Varese
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own history, crowds are never the source
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around which a narrative is built. Individu-
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als are said to be the agents of change,
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the doers, but this, after all else, is one
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more means of seeing the social in short-
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hand. Only crowds have acted only
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crowds have changed things. This is another area where binary oppositions do
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not equip us to go – a sense of the non-ordinary, the uninscribed can be felt from
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within a crowd, the stepping out from
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everyday cause and effect. Because we
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are brought up from day one with, an at
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best, muted sense of what collectivities
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can achieve but a too heightened sense of
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indivuduals as the enactors, we tend to
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view the outcome of an event in terms of
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the concrete results it achieves. This
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blinds us to the unquantifiable, but none
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the less, very real effect of being in a
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crowd. In a techno party all are equal – no one has the right to give a command.
  
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In any discussions on the reception of music there are two common and inter-related assumptions: music is seen as an art form that is responded to physically
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'''Crackdown'''
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and if it is granted any ‘intelligence’ it is as a spiritual or mystical consciousness.
 
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The difficulty of talking about music leads to an apprehension of the listening experience manifested by the media’s promotion of music makers as personalities. This
 
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advances a cultural mechanism whereby the producers of, say, a record are held
 
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in higher esteem than its consumers. But beyond the production/consumption dichotomy and the cultural inaction this creates there lies a social arena that enables
 
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the interpretation of apparent division. The listener as operator. The dancer as engineer.
 
  
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Meaning is generated socially. Without dialogue there can be no meaning. Without
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In Britain, the new Criminal Justice Act is
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interaction there can be no communication. The production/consumption dichotomy intends to regard listening to a record as an activity devoid of creative in�teraction, as passive. But this negates the experience of listening as a social
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testament to the government's need to silence noises that scramble its codes and
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activity. Leaving aside notions of consciousness itself being formed in a process of
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lead to its dysfunction These new laws are
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social interaction and concentrating on the record maker, even on this side of the
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a response to the political nature of people
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dichotomy we see not the work of individual genius but someone in creative interaction with music technology (a process of fusion, development and adaptation),
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coming together in groups where there is
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with the whole history of a given genre, with an assumed audience and context for
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a greater chance for inspiration, creativity
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the record. Factors such as experiencing a record, through anticipation and expectation, and hence of gathering meaning from the record, let alone dancing to it, are
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and disturbance. The Act is not an attack
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hardly even talked about by the producer/consumer dichotomy.
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on our 'civil liberties' as the radical left in
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its various shades tell us. Any 'rights' we
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are supposed to have a merely granted to
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us by the lawmakers to ensure that the
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myth of a “free” society may be maintained. Those organisers of opposition to
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the Criminal Justice Act focus on the injustice of the state but we wish to explore the
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poetics of altered States.
  
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Look at another form of audible communication, language. Rather than perceiving
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'''Intensifier'''
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language as a stable edifice that speakers inhabit as a ready-made system, language is more accurately apprehended as a continuous generative process imple�mented in the social-verbal interaction of speakers. Rather than dealing with ‘signs’
 
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that are abstracted out from the process of their generation, language operates between speaker and addressee with both parties informed by the other: the speaker
 
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can only speak with an addressee in mind, the addressee too, can respond and be
 
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the speaker - both sides are impregnated with each other. Language is perceived
 
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as social-interaction, and there is still to take into account the context of the exchange, the notion of ‘inner voice’ etc.
 
  
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Following on from this it is possible to speak of a ‘space between’ when we talk of
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11pm. Cross the threshold into a countless doorless rooms...the shattering of the
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communication as dialogue. Being intangible this ‘space between’ gives little concrete evidence of its existence and so theories of communication can fall back on
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mirror of travel...the fragile skin between
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one of two poles: the individual communicating (psyche) or the system of language
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inner and outer has been punctured, a celebration begins where our own energy is
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(signs) - the first yields ‘stars’ and ‘personalities’, the second, musical notation.
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spent freely and limitlessly...instantaneous
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Furthermore, with music it is possible for this ‘space between’ to be materialised as
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explosions and the sudden flare of identity
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the record. So the record becomes a conceptual space, a machine that the listener
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assassination...paroxysm of speed...nostalgia for an alphabet fading in the rapid
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operates. The record is not simply a communication that must be interpreted and
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path of strobe lights...bodies enwrapped in
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fixed down but a place of interaction where meaning is generated by both the
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bass, dancing in and out time...escaping
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music maker and the listener.
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gravity as the mind shifts into dissolution,
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cut through by assemblages of sound...fire
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consumption and the absurdity of excess...the power of pleasure...the all pervasive ghost mob. 7am.
  
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The listener is involved in a silent production that never ends and becomes engaged in a creativity that flourishes at the very point where practice ceases to have
 
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its own language (a know-how without discourse). This practice of the listener, this
 
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operating the record, can relate to its manifold uses: mixing, scratching, sampling,
 
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slowing up, speeding down, burning, smashing, lock-grooving; using it to dance to,
 
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as a psycho-physical energiser. Whatever its use the record cannot exist without
 
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the response of its audience, without the active perception and inner responsiveness of the listener that is just as able to take something different from the record,
 
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to invent and experiment anew, to make connections. The record does not say it
 
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all, its sounds generate a different movement in the paths of the conceptual operation of the listener than they had in those of the producer.
 
  
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This is a wider sensorium than the delineation of producer and consumer suggests. For listening simultaneously demands openness to a surrounding world.
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Above tracks cut through with samples from: Dead by
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Even at its most private, listening is about being socially connected, about making
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Dawn parties, Deuleze and Guattari, Stephen Pfhol,
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meanings. Listening is an activity that anticipates and expects. Being far from passive, it actively follows the desires it unleashes, opening itself up to communication
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Henri Bergson, Alex Trocchi, and Elias Canetti
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and allowing subjectivity to mutate and merge. By being opened and joined, by desiring the sounds, by being engulfed by them, means that listening, once it occupies the ‘space between’, can no longer be satisfied with reproducing models but
 
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can change minds. Listening is social-inspiration.
 
  
 
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„Sound invades us, impels us, drags us, transpierces us... it takes leave of the earth...It makes us want to die. Ecstasy and hypnosis. Colours do not move a people. Flags can do nothing without trumpets” Deleuze & Guattari – Thousand Plateaus

TechNET is a multi-personal affirmation of techno that seeks to elaborate and propel the continued outbursts of psycho-social tumult that this music is creating. Never numbered or dated, each issue of Tech- NET could be the first or the last. Always at a beginning and always incomplete, TechNET is a “glorified flyer” that is given away at parties, deposited in record shops and sent out along the third rail. What follows are re-mixed and re-connected compositions sampled from TechNET tracks.

Positive Futurism

We could begin anywhere. A history would be too obvious and would imply that techno's creative phase was over, that it was now time to juggle with rarity. Such attempts at a genealogy of techno, a hierarchical archeology, or a precise pinpointing of musicians would prohibit an understanding of the simultaneity of multiple codes, the overlapping between styles and forms. Techno cannot be allotted a place as either pop or an avant-garde music – on the whole it doesn't take refuge in art and slips away from categorisation as the net of naming is unfurled. It avoids the discipline of nostalgia which keeps people in the thrall of the past, unable to even think of the future but always referring back. Nostalgia is a language of lack, a language that fills people with longings for a past that never happened, a present that never comes, for the gift that never arrives.

No More Words

Techno music opens up a space for a critique of language or at least it raises the issue of power inherent in language. A rejection of words in the form of vocals to a song allows the listener a far more open field of exploration, a space where it is possible to discover those immanent thoughts that are beyond syntax. For words guide us to order, they instil in us the need to have others speak for us; they make us receptive to the fixity of imposed meaning...a living and illicit speech where listening is not judged as passive but part of a process of communication. The letter kills the spirit, life in general is mobility itself.

What Is Heard In Sound Is The Non - Face

Techno is an open secret, an anonymous pool of power. Faceless and from no-place it encourages us to immerse ourselves in its dynamism, to be aligned and arrayed with everyone, to be cut through and enlarged by all that input, all those mute articulations. Records issued under a variety of names and composed by packs resist moves to codify and canonise, challenging the celebrity-machine that functions as a visible indexation of 'success'. 'Stars' imply an upward mobility, they spawn sycophantic imitators, idol builders and “faces on the scene”. Increasingly now the music industry attempts to make big time profits from the previously unmarketable faceless techno bollocks. Singled out. Captured. Careering.

Inside the Crowd

Techno parties have no centre, no focal point. Crowds have never written their own history, crowds are never the source around which a narrative is built. Individu- als are said to be the agents of change, the doers, but this, after all else, is one more means of seeing the social in short- hand. Only crowds have acted only crowds have changed things. This is another area where binary oppositions do not equip us to go – a sense of the non-ordinary, the uninscribed can be felt from within a crowd, the stepping out from everyday cause and effect. Because we are brought up from day one with, an at best, muted sense of what collectivities can achieve but a too heightened sense of indivuduals as the enactors, we tend to view the outcome of an event in terms of the concrete results it achieves. This blinds us to the unquantifiable, but none the less, very real effect of being in a crowd. In a techno party all are equal – no one has the right to give a command.

Crackdown

In Britain, the new Criminal Justice Act is testament to the government's need to silence noises that scramble its codes and lead to its dysfunction These new laws are a response to the political nature of people coming together in groups where there is a greater chance for inspiration, creativity and disturbance. The Act is not an attack on our 'civil liberties' as the radical left in its various shades tell us. Any 'rights' we are supposed to have a merely granted to us by the lawmakers to ensure that the myth of a “free” society may be maintained. Those organisers of opposition to the Criminal Justice Act focus on the injustice of the state but we wish to explore the poetics of altered States.

Intensifier

11pm. Cross the threshold into a countless doorless rooms...the shattering of the mirror of travel...the fragile skin between inner and outer has been punctured, a celebration begins where our own energy is spent freely and limitlessly...instantaneous explosions and the sudden flare of identity assassination...paroxysm of speed...nostalgia for an alphabet fading in the rapid path of strobe lights...bodies enwrapped in bass, dancing in and out time...escaping gravity as the mind shifts into dissolution, cut through by assemblages of sound...fire consumption and the absurdity of excess...the power of pleasure...the all pervasive ghost mob. 7am.


Above tracks cut through with samples from: Dead by Dawn parties, Deuleze and Guattari, Stephen Pfhol, Henri Bergson, Alex Trocchi, and Elias Canetti

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