Thursday, July 14, 2022

Past Swim Short Live Acts


The pic on the left was taken directly after my live act at All-Out Demolition! II, a party we did in a squat in Hamburg, focusing on Acidcore, Doomcore, Speedcore, and similar sounds, back in 2002 - which was the biggest party we did at that point, with several hundred visitors partying from 10 pm to 6 am to noise and flashing lights.
At that time I used to strip down to my swim shorts during my live acts.
Why did I do that? Plenty of reasons, but one of the main ones was that this was the time when "Hardcore" performances by DJs and acts became - or tried to become - very macho, "brutal", "rough" - you get the point - while the sounds played were usually just some cheesy bullshit. I hated that poser shit.
So I thought me performing on stage, just clad in my not-so-cool swim shorts, would set a bit of a counterpoint to this.
Eventually the trend swung in the other direction, and especially in the Breakcore scene live performances became over-the-top silly, to the point of getting annoying, or meaningless, so I eventually dropped these antics.

The pic of me became a bit of a cult picture though, and, for example, ended up being put on a picture vinyl release.
So, I thought, 20 years later, it's the right time to re-create this shot!
And thus, here it is.

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