ARTICLES BY SUBURBAN DWIGHT
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 ROMAN RUINS
Francisco's Had EnoughWhat's happened to Rome? Thirty years ago, the Italian capital was the only place to be if you wanted in on psychedelic horror flicks and schlocky b-movie violence. Directors like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci and Fernando Di Leo took the Hitchcock pyscho-spook template and cranked it out of all proportion, creating some of slasher cinema's most memorable scenes. Not only that, you also had ...
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  ALWAYS THE SAME
Kompakt Is Killing Music With LoveWhere's all the hate in techno gone? Come to think of it, where's all the techno gone? 15 years of peace, love and unity have turned what was once a radical and political music into a slobbering blob of E-soaked blandness that couldn't be more unfashionable if it started wearing a Mylo t-shirt and a N.E.R.D. trucker hat. I don't know, you can point to labels like Cologne's Kompakt with all its fruity, whiter-than-white German shuffle techno and cool clean minimalism as an ...
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 NO MORE WORK
Kate Wax Doesn't Give A ShitKate Wax had a job once. She sold sports shoes in a shop in Geneva but hated it. "I dropped it after one month," she says. You can't blame her. What kind of bullshit job is that when you're obviously destined to be the next electro-pop superstar heroine? They should've paid her triple just to stand ...
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 CARROTS
The Vegetable Orchestra Have Banned BananasNikolaus Gansterer can't walk past a market stall without getting hot under the collar. If he catches sight of a good-looking, nicely-weighted carrot or a plump, near-ripe aubergine, he has to buy it before anyone else does. That's because Nikolaus is a member of Vienna's world-famous Vegetable Orch...
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 WHO?
It's Mistakeman You DummyThe Mistakanme, sorry, Mistakeman is a funky Turkish guy from Munich called Bülent Kullukcu who's constantly making mistakes. So while this is is bad news for his personal life-he always picks the wrong girl and is forever losing things-it works wonders for his music, since all music originates from...
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 THE NEW ELECTRO BARBARIANS
Silures Eat Human Flesh Off the Dance FloorIf you've been on a dance floor at any point in the last two years, you already worship Pascal Arbez-Nicolas's champagne techno style. He records under the name Vitalic, and his Poney EP for Gigolo (the searing anthem "La Rock 01," in particular) reduces millions of ecstatic revelers to quivering bl...
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 MAXIMUM HOMO-CAUST
Hands up who's stumbled into a gay club by accident and ended up having one of the best nights ever? Admit it-we've all been there. I fondly remember my first time, spending a balmy Sunday afternoon in July down by the rail tracks at Ost Gut, the dingy bunker beneath the famous Panorama Bar in Berli...
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 RAVE ON STEROIDS
Hardcore Techno That Kills Your BowelsWhen I was 14 the most fun I ever had was in a car park in Stoke. It was 1991 and hardcore rave fever gripped the nation. Whenever we could, my friends and I would travel to parties-indoors, outdoors; we didn't care-and proceed to get ripped on poppers and Ecstasy with hundreds of others while sound...
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 MY WAY
DJ Hell Hasn't Slowed Down (But He Wants To)The best part about interviewing DJ Hell late last year wasn't the interview in a fancy Munich restaurant where everyone worshipped the dapper Gigolo primo. No. The bestest part, the thing that summed up Hell before we'd even met, was being picked up at the airport by his assistant Claudia, who drov...
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