Dialect No More

Sad news that Dialect has had to stop going for the time being...

From: mike
Subject: Dialect - taking a break
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 03:13:21 -0700

Hi Folks,

This week will be the last week for dialect for a while - I'm taking some time off because it's become a bit too stressfull.

Hopefully we can go out in style - so if there's any guests or special features you have been planning, do it quick! We will be having a bit of a party each night this week, to say thanks to everyone involved...

You've all been amazing and we hope to be back next year with new funding.

Remember the dialect gig at the Cube Cinema on Saturday & bring all your mates - hope to see you all there!

http://microplex.cubecinema.com/cgi-bin/diary/programme.pl#1026

mike

This is a bit sad as Dialect had built a stable of very talented performers doing shows doing everything from mashup to hip-hop to bootleg to whatever goes. (The Dialect servers also took a hit recently, as the Bristol Indymedia server hosted in the same place, and the traffic went up as the Bristol Indymedia server picked up the slack while the FBI took out the UK IMC sites for a while.)

I think a shout out is due to Mike, who's been pouring his time into the project for a while now. Lets hope that, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, a new, bigger, badder and better Dialect emerges. Mine and Parasite's last show, was (In My Humble Opinion) pretty fucking rocking - witness Sickboy, Pantera, FRX and other gems climaxing in Parasite using 2 copies of Venetian Snares 'Hand Thow' (one on each deck) to finish off the our mega-mashup. It was orgasmic.

And the last track of our last ever show? Marillion. Oh yes.

I was using the eDonkey network the other day to download some music when I noticed that Parasite has some of the music he released on Death$ucker has been ripped from vinyl and put on the network. What’s most interesting is those doing this are asking people to go and buy the music in question; "So for fuck's sake, if you like what your hear, go to your local record shop and purchase a copy of your own." I spoke to Parasite about the sales of this particular 7" and he told me that it has sold-out in record time and he was having to re-press. Connected? Here the .nfo file with the hackers details on in full...

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                                     ... because it's about music     :::::::::

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      artist...: Bong-Ra                                              :::::::::

      title....: Old-Skool Armageddon                                 :::::::::

      label....: Death$ucker Records                                  :::::::::

      cat.nr...: DSR6.0                                               :::::::::

      style....: Jungle                                               :::::::::

                                   quality...: VBRkbps@44,1kHz        :::::::::

                                   chan-mode.: Joint-Stereo           :::::::::

      rls.size.: 14,3 MB           source....: Vinyl                  :::::::::

      rls.date.: Jul-02-2004       encoder...: Lame 3.90.3 MMX        :::::::::

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      url/nfo..: http://www.deathsucker.co.uk                         :::::::::

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      'Old-Skool Armageddon' sees Bong Ra jump in a time machine      :::::::::

      and teleport us 10 years back to the early 1990's, where        :::::::::

      rave music was reaching it's peak and jungle music was so       :::::::::

      popular it was making it into the charts. Here we have two      :::::::::

      very different tracks of enormous proportions; the first a      :::::::::

      rave anthem for a new generation, the second a jungle           :::::::::

      mash-up with bass lines so low you'll be shaking your           :::::::::

      booty without a care. Hand-sprayed sleeves and limited to       :::::::::

      500 copies.                                                     :::::::::

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      Note: the record label says 2003, but this baby wasn't          :::::::::

      released until April 2004.                                      :::::::::

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  A1  : Bong-Ra - Deathsucker Rave (Amphetamine Lollipop Rmx) 03:59   :::::::

  B1  : Bong-Ra - Murder You (Ruff Inna Jungle Rmx)           04:31   :::::::

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 Well this is our third year around, and as always we will keep on    :::::.

 releasing good techno/electronic music to the scene. A lot has       ::::::

 happened under the three years in TechnoRulez. Some members have     ::::::

 come and some have passed on, but the fact that we have quality in   ::::::

 the releases has remained. Will also remain the same in the future.  ::::::

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 We in TechnoRulez are in it for the fun! And we buy our own records  ::::::

 with hard earned cash! The artists we deal with are not rock stars.  ::::::

 They don't pretend to be 'the man'. They're not part of the          ::::::

 establishment or the multi-million dollar music business. So the     ::::::

 only way our scene can stay alive is through its undying support for ::::::

 the artists and labels. *THIS* is the sole reason we release music.  ::::::

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 So for fuck's sake, if you like what your hear, go to your local     ::::::

 record shop and purchase a copy of your own. It's your duty! Only    ::::::

 through this process we can all continue to enjoy techno music to    ::::::

 the fullest. As far as our releases go, if you can get hold of them, ::::::

 be happy and treasure them. Don't start posting to public domains    ::::::

 or sources!! This will eventually result in a more restricted        ::::::

 distribution of our releases, possibly even only internal...         ::::::

 The choice is yours...                                               ::::::

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                                  /TechnoRulez Crew 2003              :::::..

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.........................::::: GREETINGS :::::........................::::::.

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 1REAL . 313 . AMOK . BOSS . CHR . CMC . CMG . CQi . dh . DOC . DPS   :::::.

 DRUM . DW2K . EMP . FWYH . gEm . KrbZ . kW . mbs . MGC . MiM . MOD   ::::..

   MS . MTC . MYCEL . NBD . OMA . PDJ . PsyCZ . radial . RAMPLjUS     ::::.

             RNS . sb . smc . sour . SQ .  tronik . UBE               ::::

                                                                      :::.

             & all underground electronic music lovers ;)             ::.

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Ashley Gossip
In the summer 2004 newsletter the local Lib Dems announced that they are putting their weight behind the campaign by St.Werburghs Neighbourhood Association to get rid of the mass of billboard that makes the area look less like housing and more like a mall. No word on support for the spate of direct action that has seen then being toppled by angry residents tired of waiting for politicians to sort things out. These anti-advert vigilantes enjoy considerable support in the local area. I also cant help but wonder how the local support for such activities that are effectively a curb on capitalism will square with the new free-market, pro-privatisation, go-go capitalism Lib Dems we have been seeing emerge as the party moves closer to power. A friend commented that the Lib Dems have always been less controlled from the top of the part to its regional wings; how ever as they move into the position of being player in the grand chessboard, I expect that will begin to change.

Speaking of the Ashley councillor, she really needs to get to a meeting of St.Pauls Unlimited, as there are rumblings of disquiet over the huge list of apologies for not attending meetings that have categorised the councillors involvement with the group for the last year.

Finally a quick note on Venue, who after the Bristle media special, also decided to run a media special. Hmmm. It briefly talks about their owners, Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) and how they own most of the media in Bristol – however concludes that in general the media here offers good choice, relying on Bristle and the Bristolian to illustrate this point: This is a cart before horse argument, as these publications exist because of the media monopoly that the DMGT has over the area. Plus comparing Bristle, That Be Bristle and a few others to a media-behemoth like the DMGT and then concluding choice is to totally miss the point of scale and power – but I guess if you are writing from the belly of the beat, you need to watch for its hunger.

Liberal Democrat vs. Neo-Labour

A few people seemed to be under the impression that serious and positive political change can be gained by voting for the Liberal Democrats – to them I ask what is the difference between them and Neo-Labour? They both get sponsorship from McDonalds (Lib/Lab), they both embrace the free market; indeed the same business-head seem to have infected both parties; "A senior adviser to the Liberal Democrats who quit his role as chairman of its working group on employment claims the party has been "hijacked by a coterie of laissez-faire economists"...."

Pro Hunt Ideology is Vapid and Shallow

I lay in bed chucking for a while listening to Radio 4 as the woman from the Countryside Action Network bleated about how all the violence at the pro-animal curtly demo on Wednesday 15th. She moaned about the rights of the minority and that the violence was all the police's fault. While it is possible that individual members of the pro-hunt lobby have been active on issues like police violence and minority rights for many years, I suspect the vast majority of them, coming from the political right, have, at best sat idly by while the police beat on people from ethnic minorities, or at the worst have supported the establishment as it waged war on those who didn't fit the rule Britannia mould.

What goes around comes around.

All this hypocrisy is obviously part of why the Pro Hunt Ideology is vapid and shallow, but to me there is a bigger reason why this is so. Five protesters, so enraged that the felt the had to use direct action, broke into the House of Commons to confront the lawmakers directly. This was about liberty and livelihood and these people were from a downtrodden rural way of life: so I guess they must have been there to confront the lawmakers about the appalling suicide rate of farmers? No. So, then they must have been there to take a stand against the crushing jackboot of the supermarkets? No. So they were there to strike a blow for the destruction of the traditional British countryside by industrial agriculture? No.

They were there to protest about the right to destroy nature on a whim, to kill for fun. This is a shallow ideology. It is also only a stones throw from an attempted justification of the unending exploitation of the natural world to its and our extinction. It is the remains of a feudal psyche of yesteryear, a belief in a 'natural' hierarchy with white men at the top. A belief that the suffering of others, lower down the hierarchy, counts less that the gratification of those at the top. In summary it is a selfish, short-term, destructive and unsustainable ideology that must be opposed: so a big-up to the Bath and Bristol hunt sabbers who have been using direct action for years to end this abhorrent practice and who, when the law comes into effect, deserve a lie-in on the weekend. However, I suspect that they, as people committed to the natural world and our harmony with it, will take up the struggle elsewhere.

Could the same be said for the pro-hunt lot when the next scandal of police brutality happens? Because chances are it will happen in the inner-city to an black or Muslim teenager and they will sit on their arse and do nothing. Maybe their new campaign slogan should be: Liberty and livelihood for me and the rest of you can just fuck off.



(And they call this a 'sport'?????!!!!)