Dear Shituationists, 9 years ago, in October of 2008 we created the Shituationist Institute, an ultra-negative think tank and dance formation. Our central concern is the rave continuum, and how its potentials survive in contemporary club scenes and irregular events, but we also write about contemporary art and the tradition and reformulations of critical theory.…
The London based blog History is Made At Night recently reported that the National Government archives of the UK released Prime Minister’s Office and Cabinet files from 1989 and 1990, including discussions amongst Ministers and officials of how to clamp down on ‘Acid House’ parties: “A letter from the Home Secretary to Geoffrey Howe from 2 November…
Few days left till our trip to Porto for the KISMIF conference, which actually starts on July 9th and will last until the July 11th. Our lecture has the title “we like raves but… shituationism as a way out of the dilemma of Hedonism”. In fact we are going to share our experiences and views…
I am back in life after a pretty busy party weekend. We finally managed to enjoy the last love techno hate German edition and the garden of about blank. We have met there many people we know by face or even friends who work in various antifascist and refugee projects. After this exhausting weekend, i…
After the freebie the TEAC life, legowelt has returned in the end of 2012 with a new mind blowing album released on clone records. Melodic and intelligent techno samples, exceptional drum programming and gorgeous danceable atmosphere. You can easily feel something like a techno “music mysticism” and that 90s house n techno great feeling. The…
Some days ago, on the 28th of August, the annual fuck Parade took place in Berlin. A party on the streets with lot of trucks who bombed the city with breakcore, rave classics, even gabber and happy hardcore. Fuckparade once upon a time set out to counter the commercialism and conformism of the Loveparade. More…
As I promised to a handful of readers of the shituationist institute who follow me on facebook , I was about to post something really special today , celebrating the 3rd year old birthday of this blog. I realized recently that the new generation of ravers and contemporary music followers in some point totally ignore…
I recently discovered this track and really love it. It combines some noisy elements with heavy, funky basslines and catchy beats and is mainly produced with analog hardware. You can download it for free directly from Soundcloud, where you also can check out some other tracks by Wutzlhofer.
Because we had allready seen Blake Baxter twice at Suicide Circus and always enjoyed his sets and the Club very much as you could read in the earlier reviews, we decided to go to see the Prince of Techno again this Friday. This time together with the Prince of Hip House – Tyree Cooper and…
Boom off is the counter concept of Boom Festival. People gather every 2 years when the boom festival takes place, in the opposite side and they organize a super awesome free festival. Thanks to Laura from Barcelona for letting me know this video. Enjoy
http://datacide.c8.com/fuckparade-fallout/ The yearly Fuckparade was taking place again in Berlin on August 22. The gathering point was Revaler Strasse, where the 17 trucks were warming up for the parade. A part of this warm up were also the obligatory speeches. For this, the Fuckparade organisers invited Hans Cousto and Dr. Motte, whose talks can be…
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