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Bombs over Blekingska 2004-10-02
Neostalgia, Blekingska Nationen, Lund.
Swedish Noise Is Scanian.
So I went to Scania (Skåne) the other week to visit the city of my birth Malmö. An old buddy of mine told me that a bunch of the old gang was going to get together at Neostalgia and the event Bombs over Blekingska. The Swedish elite of noise had taken the venue hostage for a full evening and night of “noise and stuff”.
The “stuff” was signed and delivered by Zebra Pares, this night consisting of Erik (Q-Department and other bands) with the help of Kalle (Noise Gate, Shock Trauma, Cabinet Morfique, Cura Deutor, Ticket To Wonderland and other bands). What was thankfully received was a mix of old and new electronic sound- and rhythm-scapes, leading me to think of bands such as Clock DVA, Severed Heads, Chris and Cosey as well as the Raster-Noton roster. In other words super fine.
The sophisticated workings of Zebra Pares was followed by Shift’s Martin (Face, Forever green, Headcleaner, Total, Central and other bands) this time joined by a bass player, maybe brother I couldn’t tell. If Blekingska had never rocked and rolled before, it did now, literally. Everything was moving, the floor, the ceiling, the walls and the crowd. It was all moving from the sheer power of complex simplicity and volume of course. Shift’s real time layering and at the spot tweaking shifts what was simple layers of noise and rhythm into a howling beast of multi layered virility and vigour.
Now, accompanied by what sounded like Malcolm X, Lirim (Shock Trauma, Noise Gate, Operativ Permanent, Total and other bands) took centre stage and delivered a head on assault on ears and heads quite literally since things and Lirim went flying through the room hitting the audience at various speeds. Luck had it that no one was seriously injured, though a video-cannon probably had its first near death experience. It’s excellent and it’s all there, noise, anger, visuals (at least until the video cannon bought it) and the open mic policy of Institut opens for the audience’s creative input.
Following Institut were Operativ Permanent consisting of Mr Hate a k a Evil Hank or Henrik (Noise Gate, Shock Trauma, Opponent Teuton and other bands) and Mr Hate a k a Lirim. While standing there I remembered that this is the band that 13 years ago exclaimed that this is “music of the working class”, I then realised that it’s true they have democratised music. Anyone can do it, all you need is whatever you can find that produces noise and/or sounds of any kind, plug it in (or not) and start playing (or just hammer away at) it. Of course you also need talent and skill but that’s free.
I left this event truly happy because there was a lot of love in there, humour, talent and a commitment to creativity that would have made the multinational conglomerate zaibatsu capitalist destroyers of talent tremble with fear had they been there to witness it. Or maybe not, who knows.
/Magnus Nilsson
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