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UK
'REPETITIVE BEATS' LEGISLATION
REPEATING
IN AMERICA!
(YOU 2292)
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fraser,
nice American rave rant! we're
highlighting it in DJ mag too - and on the website. Keep it
on!
Carl Loben/DJ Mag.
the ezine never fails to inform
& inspire. :)
flowerchile
What delightful and diverse
diatribes, discourses and
diversions!
djpercy.
YOU
2288 WHY
is lemon juice made with artificial flavour when dishwashing liquid's
made with real lemons?
FEB PSYCHEDELIC
/ GLOBAL BREAKBEATS PLAYLIST
1. Doof,
SK.2K.
Twisted.
2. Outernational Spacelords,
Cape East.
Elektrolux.
3. Steffe, Heart of
Fire. Dubmission.
4. Zion Train,
Movement of the
People. Universal Egg.
5. Steffe,
Celebration.
Gliss.
6. Purple Om,
Armageddon
Dub. Dragonfly.
7. Solar Quest,
Carronbrig.
Transient.
8. Tricky Cris,
Arrival.
Elektrolux.
9. The Rootsman,
Mother of
Nature. Third Eye.
10.Pfink, First
Day. ZipDog.
<compiled by Unity Dub>
YOU
2289 WHY
don't you ever see the headline "PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY"?
SUN FEB
18
FUNDRAISER FOR
GUJARAT
EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS
Some of the biggest names in Indian classical
music join hands with top British musicians. Sarod maestro
Ustad Amjad Ali
Khan and magical bansuri flautist
Pandit Hariprasad
Chaurasia will perform with their young
disciples, Ustad Amjad Ali
Khan's sons
Amaan & Ayaan Ali
Bangash and
Rupak
Kulkarni respectively.
Hariprasad
Chaurasia will also be joined by jazz guitar
legend John
McLaughlin. The evening will open with the
Michael Nyman Band.
. PLUS a rare UK appearance by
Praful
Dave, Gujarat's leading folk singer.
HRH the Prince of Wales, patron, with all proceeds to the DEC (Disasters
Emergency Committee) India Earthquake Appeal, the Prime Minister of
India's National Relief Fund.
Royal Festival
Hall. 7.30pm. TICKETS - Box Office (020
7960 4242) £50 - £10.
INFO
020 8742 9911
penny@amc.org.uk
YOU
2290 Why do
doctors call what they do "practice"?
THURS FEB
15 FIRESTARTER
UNDERGROUND NIGHT
The true festival season kikks off with 7
festi-bands and a multitude of weird performers, for the release of the
New Firestarter CD.
UPSTAIRS BRITISH
UNDERGROUND Project featuring very cool alternative new labels.
DOWN STAIRS -
FIRESTARTER STAGE
SWARAJ -
Nu Asian Beats DJ`s.Featuring the DJ`s
Khushdoo
and
Roundeye.
TOP CATS -
superstar Ska act.
SKINNY
SUMO - jumpin' kickin' live Drum and Bass and
Rap. SHOD
COLLECTIVE--two stand up bassists, Brazilian
tinged Vocals, steaming funk, soul jazzters .
MONKEY STEALS THE
DRUM - alternative Hardcore outfit, John Peel
fave. P.A.I.N
- official Launch of the PAIN Ouch CD - the
quintessential UK Ska and Punk. MY
ASTRO LOVER - Lo Fi , hi energy Trash Punksters.
DJ `S THE HOUSE WIVES
CHOICE - Girlee punk DJ`
MC`S - The
CHAMELEON
- International maverick comedy and chaotic trickery.
CONTINENTAL
DRIFTS FREAK SHOW -AROUND AND ABOUTPLUS many
amazing performers and circus artists rarely found beyond the Big Top and
The Street. MECHANICAL
FRACTURE - Crazy robotic stunts and
statues. HIGH
RISE - weirdo rubber clad aliens.
LEGENDARY LYNN - CARMEN
MIRANDA- 12 foot high Brazilian Beauty.
ECLIPSE -
mindboggling Stage UV and Black light performance
FREAKS -
other world walkabout artists.
CIRQU --
funky disco tear about.
OTHER
HALVES - mashed up angelic acrobalance stars.
@: Garage, 20-22 Highbury Corner, N5. 0207 607 1818
http://www.continentaldrifts.uk.com/
http://www.mi5.uk.com/venues/vuTSE103.html
YOU
2291 WHY
do they nail down the lids of coffins?
UK's 'REPETITIVE BEATS' LEGIS-LATION REPEATING IN
AMERICA!
JUST SAY NO - TO DANCING!
Goddess, whatta week it's been since
my celebration of the current US GOVERNMENT RAVE CRACKDOWN article in the
last UP!GRADE! Was it really only a week ago?!
It seems the Final Phase of the Final Battle has begun as the New Culture
captures the power centre of the planet (America), and as the Old begins
to fight back in vain and way way too late. Some of us have been
waiting and predicting this for a decade now (yet only a
decade!!!!?)
First came proof that it's the US Government that's behind it all.
Emails started pouring in to the YOUniversity's site telling us that,
simultaneously with the 3 young New Orleans promoters being bust by
abusive (and illegal!) use of "Crack House" laws,
"cheating" new legislation is being applied in other parts of
the USA. Here's one report from the
Orlando
Sentinel:-
ORANGE MAY CALL LAST DANCE AT NEW
CLUBS
IN ITS ZEAL TO STOMP OUT
DRUG-PLAGUED RAVE PARTIES, ORANGE COUNTY WANTS NEW CLUB OWNERS TO JUST
SAY NO -- TO DANCING!
If County Chairman Rich Crotty has his way, a proposed law would
ban dancing at any new club.
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like i said last week: governments when pressed
always increase
the laws and the penalties. but this particular absurdity can only
mean the powers-that-be are feeling
maximum
pressure!
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The real target is rave clubs,
the all-night party spots where dancing, pulsating music and strobe
lights are often combined with recreational drugs. "We will
not let parts of Orange County be transformed into Rave Street
Station," Crotty said.
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meaning: they ARE being transformed!
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Assistant County Attorney Joel
Prinsell said that while the First Amendment protects free speech,
expression and even dancing, it does not protect dance clubs.
"That argument is without merit," Prinsell said.
"There's no constitutional right to dance with
strangers."
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can you believe this stuff, oh mature youropean ravers?! oh yes, we
certainly can - because we had to face down all this shit
ourselves!
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County officials say they're
willing to take extreme measures to combat the increasing problem of drug
use -- and overdose deaths -- in Central Florida. The sweeping plan
to curb dancing may be aimed directly at a proposed club in east Orange
County. Residents in the Azalea Park neighborhood have complained
to Commissioner Mary I. Johnson about the planned opening of a club at
the intersection of State Roads 436 and 50, east of Orlando.
The owner of the proposed club, Mike Zaccardo, said the new proposal is
too much. "I'm pretty darn sure that they are violating my
constitutional rights, and I think they know it," said Zaccardo,
adding that he plans on fighting the law in court. "Their
whole strategy is to wear me out mentally and financially. Well, they're
definitely wearing me out, but it's not over. I'm motivated more than
ever."
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"meanwhile," as last week's UP pointed out,
"the real intention of this abuse of the law is to produce one
less promoter on the street"
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A public hearing will precede the
commissioners' vote next Tuesday. County Commissioner Clarence
Hoenstine said Monday that he looked forward to approving the proposal
into law at next week's meeting. "If it was up to me, I
wouldn't allow any of these clubs," he said. "But I know
we live in a free society."
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come on, leave the Stage quietly, go relax on the Fossil Shelf why don't
you?!
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Within 24 hours the authorities
in Orlando were beginning to realise that their shit had hit a lotta
'fans', as the next day's
Sentinel
reported:
OUTCRY GREETS ATTACK ON DANCE
CLUBS
In the click of a mouse, news of
the county's proposed nine-month ban has swept the country.
Hundreds of messages deriding the plan were posted on Web sites.
Irate local residents started petition drives and phone-calling campaigns
and made plans to speak up at Tuesday's meeting before the county
commission is scheduled to vote on the plan.
"I just can't imagine a mature adult in a political office proposing
something like this," said Daniel Fuller, 29, a disc jockey who
writes about local music for an Internet site "The national
media is going to pick up on this. We're going to be a joke."
NOT ABOUT DANCING
Crotty appeared frustrated by the
outcry. "People think I'm against dancing. I don't think
it's a bit about dancing."
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it's about a new shamanic social model, Mr Chairman, your competitive
puritan model is increasingly obviously not working. as Dylan sang
last time round: Don't stand in the doorway don't block up the
halls.
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None of the local officials said
they wanted to stop dancing.
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did they but know it!
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But, when residents began
complaining about the possibility of a club at the corner of State Roads
50 and 436, officials were sympathetic. Hundreds of residents of
the nearby Azalea Park neighborhood held meetings, signed petitions and
called their county commissioner, Mary I. Johnson, begging for
help. "I can't go to the mall, the store, the church,
anywhere, without somebody stopping me," Johnson said
Tuesday. Crotty said he too felt the residents' pain when he
listened to residents vent about their fears.
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culturally armed camps, sounds of cultural war horns, trumpet clarion
calls, as culturally armed champions arise on both sides.
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LEGAL QUESTIONS
But is his plan legal?
Several experts on constitutional laws said they thought Orange County's
proposed ordinance would have a tough time holding up in court.
Most notably, they said they thought that it violates the right to due
process. In layman's terms, the law presumes guilt instead of
innocence -- punishing would-be clubs for the problems associated with
existing clubs. "You also have to ask yourself if it's good
public policy," said Marshall Croddy, an attorney with the
Constitutional Rights Foundation, a nonprofit group in California.
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dem hippy types are jumping into the new social frontline like
battle-hardened warriors looking for the cultural zeitgeist. and
they HAVE found one!
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County Attorney Tom Wilkes
acknowledged Tuesday that the situation was a tough one. He
described the proposed law as a stopgap that would buy the county time to
develop more specific rules to control new clubs. "Dancing
is not the issue," Wilkes said. "Behavior at some of the
places that allow dancing is the issue."
i think we're seeing the first
cracks in the establishment's crackdown. do their best young minds
see the folly the elders are leading them into? perhaps they
already sense that this is an unwinnable war as is any war against the
people?
so i started looking into my back diaries, and came up with this public
statement I made during the
1995-96
Zippy Pronoia Tour To
US
QUESTION:
"WHAT
DOES THE UK's CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL (REPETITIVE BEATS) HAVE TO DO WITH
AMERICA?"
As 100,000 British ravers
demonstrate against the Criminal Justice Bill, the real answer to the
above question is to ask a further question: why is the British
government so afraid of the Rave Spirit?
And the very simple answer is that House music and ecstatic dancing
clears peoples' minds of conditioning, which potentially allows them to
envision a much more perfect and happy way of living together than will
EVER be possible within our present user-unfriendly System.
Simple partying and House music would threaten nobody if there was little
wrong with our society. But there is a hell of a lot wrong!
As Rave Culture grows (a Culture meaning a lot more than just going to an
occasional party) and as the government tries to repress it, the faults
(in the Old Culture) become more and more glaring. A day will come
when every town in America will boast its very own Rave posse or two, and
each of them will want (quite naturally) to live the primary myth of Rave
Culture and take their sound system to the forest and "common
land", there to dance barefoot on the grass.
That's when this issue will go nuclear. I know it sounds
unlikely. But every non-zippy British raver thought that, and now
look. 100,000 ravers demonstrating against the Criminal Justice
Bill. {The Repetitive Beats' Law}
Finally, if there is to be any hope for us all, and by that I mean the
planet, an issue will arise that is so basic and harmless that it can
unite all the disparate and partial voices of the Alternative
Community. Do we have the right to dance barefoot on the grass
whenever the whim hits us, or don't we? DO WE NEED A FOOKIN'
LICENCE TO DANCE OR DON'T WE?!!
At which point the Rave Spirit, or whatever you want to call it, will
supply the Glue (as it has done in the UK) that can finally pull all
People of Good Will together, who can all agree that here is an issue
where we can't fudge and mudge. Either you can dance on the grass
when you like or you can't. And as more and more people see more
and more events attacked and the mere fact of having fun criminalised,
and begin to think 'What is this country coming to?' then watch
out, America, a Sea Change will be at hand. YOU CAN'T HAVE A
PERFECT CLUB IN AN IMPERFECT SOCIETY. YOU HAVE TO CHANGE
SOCIETY."
I hope I'm wrong, I really do. But I do
not think so. I wish the present dominators would
work with and learn from this positive new arising of the Human Spirit to
bring about peacefully the re-balancing of the social structure that is
so clearly necessary, but ... time will tell, and has already told in
Europe.
That is why we came here to the USA. The Final Battle for the Human
Soul will be decided here in America. And you, dear Raver or
Raver-to-be, are destined to be on the front line, and already
are, whether you yet realise it or not.
Your planet needs you. Take courage.
And, the very next day's
Sentinel
reported that, even before Tuesday's vote, the Right was already in
retreat
Caught off guard by an
outraged public, Orange County officials are scaling back a proposed ban
on all new dance clubs. The proposal now might last no more than 60
days -- and may affect only one club.
The changes came after officials were inundated with calls from Orlando
and across the country.
"I never thought this would work," said Amy Schneider, a
20-year-old hotel reservationist who helped organize a protest by her
20-something friends. "This isn't about clubs or atmosphere or
music. It's about personal decisions." Similar -- but
less-polite -- thoughts were echoed on Internet chat rooms, such as the
one at OrlandoSentinel.com, where computer users called the proposal
"backwoods," "backwater," and
"moronic."
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note that it only seems "moronic" when looking back from
the Third Millennium. this is actually pretty much how the Puritan
Materialist Competitive Dinosaur Culture has traditionally kept the
Cooperative Shamanrchic Culture under control. until now! when it's
grown and spread too much for these methods to work.
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yes, folks, a Battle that is
bigger and more final than any in humanity's history has entered its
final phase. it is between a dangerously competitive, dying culture
and the new democratic, tolerant, cooperative, group-minded shamanic
dance culture that is to reptile it. it is far, far bigger than
anyone in america yet suspects. and it could be YOUR last chance to
make a real difference.
here's a final quote, from a letter I published in
MONDO
magazine in
1993,
which hints at the enormity of where america is now heading:-
THE SHAMANARCHY WAVE
"Dear Mondoids,
The currents of House pop - the necessary first shake-it-all-loose stage
of Rave Culture, (the next being Trance & Ambient) already swirl
undeniably round America’s ankles. But in Europe, still 3 years
ahead, the next tide, the
Shamanarchy
Wave, prepares to finally swamp
America and then the planet in a brand new cultural glue that has the
potential to stick all the disparate parts of our revolution back
together.
The fact is that the UK Rave scene, far from getting bashed out of
existence by Thatcher's Crackdown, has actually BEEN PUSHED
UNDERGROUND, which is a totally different thing.
With their bucks no longer guaranteed, for example, the trendy big money/
fashion promoters have been squeezed out, thus purifying and further
advancing the scene here.
And so, underground and mostly illegal, the real Acid House scene has
continued to expand, massively, and has now birthed a “festi-rave”,
“Hippy House” crossover counterculture that is rapidly becoming
radicalised, politicised, ecologised, culturally rooted, hedonically
opened - and all within the current deepening, ongoing, unstoppably
bankrupt Slump & Final Collapse of the Old Competitive System
etc.
If a new culture doesn’t make its appearance soon to connect us all into
a movement that grabs back control of the planet, then all the new tecno
in MONDO’s pages will ultimately maximise killing Iraqis and
economically enslaving Russians.
The whole Shamanarchy culture consists of people living and working
communally, as posses of urban nomads, illegal tribes of techno
guerillas, but in such increasing numbers that they are starting to
explode onto the overground - raves being the cultural flashpoints.
For many of Fraser's other predictions on Rave
Culture check THE BOOK OF
RAVeLATIONS on:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/fraserclark/
YOU
2292 WHY
can't they make the whole plane out of the same substance as the
indestructible black box?
Sheffield, UK
WED FEB 14
SUNDAZE VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL
Arrive early for a sofa seat, pop in for a cocktail before dinner, or wander down later to soak in the chic. Get in the mood with candles, chilled music, visual projections and love hearts provided by those ol' romantics DJs Mouli, Unity Dub & Dr. Chill and on projections the visual-artist-fundamentally-known-as-Stephen-Carley. Expect a mix of funky breaks, sexy divas, cool beats and a little slushy loungecore.
Revolution, Mappin St. 7-11pm. FREE
sundaze@easyliving.com
YOU 2293 WHY does rain drop but snow falls?
YOU FEEDBACK
"Drugs have become such an integral part of the rave circuit that there no longer appears to be any attempt to conceal their use." For "attempt to conceal" read "we don't have the fookin' manpower to stop so many people making free choices!"
And even if we had the manpower we still wouldn't do it, because what manpower we have are doing it too!
Lil Hunky
YOU 2294 WHY is the guy who invests your money called a broker?
Paris
SUN FEB 18 ELECTION DE SPICE B
BBB le Tea Dance Ethnik et Gay des Folies Pigalle organise la 3ème édition des Spice B, le black blanc ou Beur le plus épicé, very nice boy.
Il y aura un jury composé de gens de la presse et de la nuit pour élire le
spice boyz de l'année : Vincent Mac Doom,Julien Guichard, (Têtu), Christophe Demoulin (Streetlife), Patrick Declein (tribu Move), Jean
Claude Jitrois.
Election des Spice B, 6pm-minuit, Folies Pigalle, 75009 Paris.
YOU 2295 WHY can't women put on mascara with their mouth closed?
YOU panspermia FEEDBACK
I don't know too much about the McKenna thing but I do think life came on comets/rocks etc though I think it would already be preformed bacteria. This makes it more real for me. For, if life was already bacteria which came to Earth, where did it come from? (I know that you know that I know etc). And that's the beauty of it....
Look into a black hole and you can only get so far and then it breaks down.....look to the beginning of the Universe and you can only go 10^-36 secs after the big bang (pulse, whatever) and now even life itself cannot be found absolute.
What's it all about? Looking outward only will ultimately break down. Only by looking inward too will a balance be made where an unknowable universe will not only be accepted but be seen as positively the only natural state it could be. Or is it........
Iain Hossack :-)
PS (to your readers, and to swell the old ego) Fraser put me on the train tracks 15 years ago and I've never looked back since. He's to blame!!
YOU 2296 WHY doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
For dates and details on THE SMITHKLINE BEECHAM PRODUCT DAY; ANIMAL RIGHTS DEMO, phone 0121-632-64-60
YOU2297 WHY is rush hour the time with the slowest traffic?
MEGATRIPOLIS RETURNS!
THE RUMOURS WE REPORTED LAST WEEK ARE DEFINITELY TRUE! THEIR NEW FORTNIGHTLY CLUB IS GOING TO BE CALLED
TTHHEE DDEENN OF EENNLLIIGGHHTTEENNMMEENNTT
AND IT'S LAUNCHING IN EARLY APRIL. LOOK OUT FOR THE PRIMORDIAL SOUKH!!! AND WATCH THIS SPACE!!!
YOU 2298 WHY do we turn down the volume on the radio when we're driving around looking for an address?
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