Last weekend we went to visit the anarchist bookfair and met Christoph Fringeli from Datacide (and Praxis) where they presented their thirteenth issue. Datacide used Backspace back in the nineties when running DataRadio programme, of which one can still download. Those sessions are also linked in from the WalkerArt Mediatheque.

Last Sunday datacide hosted a launch event at Vynil in Deptford. Christoph Fringeli gave an overview of Datacide, David Cecil spoke about ‘Confessions of an Accidental Activist’, and Neil Transpontine presented ‘Revolt of the Ravers – the movement against the Criminal Justice Act in Britain’. 20 years since the UK Government announced new laws targeting gatherings with music ‘characterised by repetitive beats’. DJ Controlled Weirdness finished the evening.

Neil took part in some of the Deptford.TV events, such as What will New Cross be?, back in 2008 when The People Speak hosted at Talkaoke event, the documentation of the Urban Free Festival, and the Mindsweeper events, of which much is documented in the Deptford.TV diaries ‘strategies of sharing‘ & ‘pirate strategies‘…

Datacide, international ‘magazine for noise and politics’, has its origins in the underground techno/speedcore/noise scene in 1990s London. Its founder, Christoph Fringeli, also initiated Praxis records and the legendary Dead by Dawn nights at the 121 Centre in Brixton (for a while Praxis had a record stall in New Cross Road in what is now Prangsta). Today it is published in Berlin, but with contributors spread around the globe. As well record reviews and other music news, it features in depth articles and interviews on the related cultural politics, anti-fascism, and much more.

In a return to its South London origins, was a launch event for the new issue 13…