A Series of Shock Slogans andMindless Token Tantrums
Crass
Phil Russell, quoted in A Series of Shock Slogans andMindless Token TantrumsOpen in Goodreads ↗
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techno travellers
Free festivals, sound systems and the Criminal Justice Act
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Disco
Albert Goldman
This wasn’t a new idea; in his book Disco, Albert Goldman claimed that the New York disco scene of the seventies reflected ‘an underground tradition of primitive tribal religious rites’; a ‘quest for ecstasy and transcendence’ through orgiastic dance mania.
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Shamanarchy in the UK
Fraser Clark
Clark also had a romantic vision of a New Age Britain revitalised by the pagan energies generated by the fission between the house generation and the green movement, which he later summed up in a typically optimistic manifesto on the sleeve of Evolution magazine’s Shamanarchy in the UK compilation album: ‘As the depression in the dominator system deepens into final collapse, the co-operative free festy/rave/squatter/new new age/techno tribal traveller cross-over counter-culture will grow unstoppably into the new dominant goddess-worshipping techno-tipi dwelling eco-culture that will inherit a cleansed planet.’ It may have sounded improbable, even preposterous, but his project was nothing less than the psychedelicising of youth culture.
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Move Any Mountain
The Shamen
After filming a video in the Canary Islands for The Shamen’s new single, ‘Move Any Mountain’, Will Sinnott stayed on to enjoy the sunshine with his girlfriend.
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Illuminatus!
Robert Shea & Robert Anton Wilson
In 1992, Clark invited a string of key figures from American counterculture to speak: Robert Anton Wilson, author of the ultimate conspiracy novel, Illuminatus!, Ecstasy chemist Alexander Shulgin, and, most influentially, Terence McKenna.
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Food of the Gods
Terence McKenna
In his best-known book, Food of the Gods, he set out his theory that from prehistoric times onwards, plants and humans have developed in symbiosis, with psychedelic plants in particular playing a key role in the development of human mental capability.
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Boss Drum
The Shamen
Angus invited him to contribute to a track on The Shamen’s concept album, Boss Drum, which was largely inspired by Food of the Gods.
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Re-evolution
The Shamen with Terence McKenna
On the track ‘Re-evolution’, McKenna spelled out his vision of an ‘archaic revival’, a reconnection with the planet’s ancient energies – a concept familiar to anyone who had been listening to Spiral Tribe.
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Chaos and Cyber Culture
Timothy Leary
Never slow to catch an incoming wave and give it a snappy slogan, Timothy Leary weighed in with a book called Chaos and Cyber Culture which imagined a ‘new breed’ of creative youth, into techno, psychedelics and computer networking.
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