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Rev. Chris Korda will make another tour of Germany this summer, this
time performing a set of live techno, including tracks from the new
Church of Euthanasia EP "Sex Is Good." The four-song 12" EP was
released on June 19, by DJ Hell's "International Gigolo" label, which
also released Korda's club classic "Save The Planet, Kill Yourself"
last summer. The EP will be distributed in the US by Dutch East,
release number "Gigolo 13". The tour schedule so far is as follows:
July 12: Gigolo Night at Club WMF / Berlin (Love Parade)
August 1: Club Ultraschall / Munich
August 7/8: Futura Festival in Sarajevo / Bosnia
August 15: Gigolo Night at Club Rhenania / Cologne (Pop-Kom)
For more up-to-date information about the tour, please contact
Disko B/Gigolo booking:
Disko B/Gigolo
Lindwurmstr 71 RGB
D-80337 Munich
Germany
voice: (011 49) 89 5438-231 or -232
fax: (011 49) 89 5438-441
email: booking@diskob.com
- 07/07
- Marilyn and I are heading for Logan Airport with six bags
including 150 pounds of electronics. We're scheduled to arrive in Frankfurt
at the crack of dawn, where we'll rent a car and drive to Munich. For someone
who campaigned on behalf of the Unabomber, I sure am relying on technology
at this moment.
- 07/16
- I'm in the Disko-B office in Munich, and it's pretty quiet
except for the construction outside. Berlin was unbelievable, one
million people in the park for the "Love Parade", all the usual rave crapola,
jester hats, hippy stuff, etc. This year the official slogan was "One
world-one future". Marilyn & Toshi and I fought our way through the
crowd to get to my scheduled interview with VIVA (German MTV), after some
fast talking I persuaded the bouncers to let us into the veal pen at the
center where all the DJs and VIPs hang out, and then was interviewed
live by this guy "Disko", who was quite cool actually, he was familiar
with the CoE and sympathetic to my view of the parade. So we went on the
air and first thing I did was ignore the question and recite the lyrics
to "Fleshdance" (my new track) in German, as in "eat eat eat eat flesh
flesh flesh flesh cow chicken pig human, what's the difference? smells
good, tastes good, nice and juicy, pass the ketchup, eat human flesh eat
human flesh eat human flesh kill kill kill kill." Then I suggested that
the slogan for the parade should instead be "Brave New World," explained
that the ravers brag about everywhere being the same, cities, music,
styles, that this homogenization of culture was accompanied by an equally
horrifying biological homogenization, in which diversity was being wiped
out and only humans and the species they find useful would survive.
Finally I spoke about mass culture and the role of media in perpetuating
it, and compared the parade to rock music festivals, soccer games, and
certain political rallies that took place in Germany not so long ago but
I was too polite to say which ones. Right about then they pulled the
plug. It turned out that the whole time I was speaking Disko's producer
was screaming into his earphone, get rid of this guy, what the hell is
going on, etc. The rest of the evening was spent watching the crowd and
listening to techno music, mostly a bit boring until Hell did his set,
which was fascinating and wonderful, though some people did not like it
and even booed him, he did not play much techno at all, instead played
strange rock 'n roll and party music, very cool, one track sounded like
the Go-Go's though it wasn't, another was almost country western, and so
the atmosphere became less fascistic, instead of everyone staring only at
the center people began to relate to each other, party, not even paying
attention to the music so much, so Hell spun party music and this was
cool, this was what he intended, to give everyone a break from this all
day boom-boom music. To be continued, I have to get off the computer now.
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