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With some months separating now between her exit from Compact Magazine, Nina Power discusses the chaos of post-cancellation cultural life, RFK, Jr's Trump endorsement, the extinction of education, and the battle between good and evil

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Nina on her court case

Combat sports expert JJ discusses the peculiar psyop that was the Algerian "intersex" boxer competing in the women's division of the 2024 Olympics

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Chrome "Wranglers" 
Manson Family "Bar None" 
Manowar "Hatred"
Red Cross "White Trash" 
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On the Imane Khelif controversy

Adam explains his experiences as a contributor of Compact Magazine, how it was pitched to him versus what the magazine has become, based around the recent resigning of friend of the show Nina Power as an editor of the project after Luke Turner leaked private communications between her and former guest Daniel Miller that were presented as evidence during their legal battle with the sociopathic British artist Turner.. Hate to have to be acknowledging Luke Turner in 2024, but that's where we are.

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Coroner "Mental Vortex" 
Unrest "I Do Believe You are Blushing"  
Nervous Eaters "Shit for Brains" 
Pentagram "Sign of the Wolf" 
Ginuwine "So Anxious" 
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Nina Power on the debacle
Daniel Miller on the trial between himself, Nina and Turner 
Sohrab Ahmari on Elena Velez 

We're celebrating Halloween, fear, terror and disquiet for this two part episode folks! Announcing herself as a new reoccurring guest host, fan favorite Bimbo Ubermensch joins Adam and Will to discuss our favorite horror-tinged novels and films.

Tune in next week for part 2, where we will discuss our favorite scary records and visual art works.

Favorite Horror Films:
Adam: Juraj Herz The Cremator
Will: Psychic TV First Transmission, Mr. Bungle "Quote Unquote" video
Sandra: Pawel Pawlikowski Ida

Favorite Horror Novels: 
Adam: Arthur Machen The Great God Pan, Gabrielle Wittkop The Necrophilliac
Will: Peter Sotos Tool
Sandra: EM Forster "The Machine Stops"

SOUNDTRACK:
Cadaver in Drag "Surrounded by a Bunch of Fucking Idiots"
Dead Infection "Xenomorph"
Henry Flynt: "Rockabilly Boogie"
John Frusciante: "My Smile is a Rifle"
SpaceGhostPurrp: "Like a Strippah"
Alvarius B: "You Only Live Twice"

PREVIEW (Full Episode on Patreon): Electronic music producer, sound artist, and Diagonal Records head honcho Oscar Powell joins the show to discuss imminent fatherhood, his evolution from a burgeoning global DJ to a muted and surreal sound artist, his new album 'Piano Studies', working alongside the late Editions Mego head and experimental music god Peter Rehberg, drugs/psychedelic limit experiences, and mass media.

Full Episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/piano-studies-w-57589350?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Powell "Piano Music 3": https://music.apple.com/us/album/piano-music-3/1576662579?i=1576662582
Powell "On the Feed of a Wind": https://music.apple.com/us/album/rise-world-unfold-iii/1536736221?i=1536736229
Powell "Getting Paid to be Yourself": https://music.apple.com/us/album/gettin-paid-to-be-yourself-als-kick-ass-mix/1135974288?i=1135974471
Powell "Track Seven": https://music.apple.com/us/album/track-seven/262236237?i=262236491
Iannis Xenakis chamber music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/herma/1220777588?i=1220777800
Elliot Carter "Night Fantasies": https://youtu.be/oW2DmmDvyHk Coil "Never": https://youtu.be/OhtrWOAXxmQ

Links:

Powell 'Piano Music': https://odbpowell.bandcamp.com/album/piano-music-1-7

Diagonal Records: https://diagonal-records.com/

Peter Rehberg RIP: https://youtu.be/-Ds7CROi_eY

System of Systems, at long last, is back. First things first, Ben AKA the Perpetual Self Optimizer is no longer the producer/co-host, and we want to thank him for all the great work done on this program. 

Replacing him is none other than former guest Will Samson, who takes over production duties and second mic. Welcome him!

In our first episode back, we have Ellroy Boys co-host and Apocalypse Confidential editor Blauergeist! specifically to take on the colossal disaster that is The Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark. Somehow, as bad as this film could be (cheesy as fuck casting, thin plot, aesthetically flat and gross) it's somehow so, so, so much worse. It's the kind of spinoff film that complicates the entire legacy of its source material. The great work of American pop art reduced to a shitty, faux edgy dirtbag leftist meme.

SOUNDTRACK:

Alabama 3 "Woke Up This Morning": https://music.apple.com/us/album/woke-up-this-morning-the-sopranos-mix/667102458?i=667102844

Mystifier "The Witch Resides Our Goat": https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-witch-voisin-recites-our-gloat-osculum-obscenum/299352750?i=299352756

Fusitsusha "Magic IV: https://youtu.be/Oy0njwl-AHc 

Souls of Mischief "A Name I Call Myself": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888

Black Humor "Undancing in the Dirt": https://music.apple.com/us/album/a-name-i-call-myself/369570847?i=369570888

LINKS:

Will Samson's Twitter: @_Will_Samson_ https://twitter.com/_Will_Samson_

Blauergeist at Twitter: @blauer_geist https://twitter.com/blauer_geist 

Apocalypse Confidential: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/ 

Ellroy Boys podcast: https://soundcloud.com/ellroyboys

Adam on Many Saints of Newart: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/based-safetty-vs-cringe-propaganda

In this episode, Adam is joined by Bimbo Ubermensch aka SANDRA and host of the Pleasure Helmet podcast Ilydivna aka Dana to talk about two recent pop culture spectacles equally flawed and fascinating. We are talking about Kanye West's 'DONDA' and the release parties that Kanye threw to celebrate its publication, as well as Leos Carax's new English language Sparks-soundtracked, Adam Driver-starring avant-musical film 'Annette'. While both art works are wildly imperfect, there is something about the spectacle around the art works themselves that creates a Debordian situationist spectacle that demands attention with outré ideas. This is something to be celebrated. We also shit talk the middle class, which is the worst class.

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Adam Driver and Sparks - Sympathy for the Abyss https://music.apple.com/us/album/sympathy-for-the-abyss/1577154280?i=1577154295

Kanye West - Junya https://music.apple.com/us/album/junya/1583449420?i=1583449436

Kanye - Welcome to Heart Break https://music.apple.com/us/album/welcome-to-heartbreak-feat-kid-cudi/1441410287?i=1441410305
Agitation Free - Ala Tul https://music.apple.com/us/album/ala-tul/1518200907?i=1518201156

Underground Resistance - Technology Gap https://music.apple.com/us/album/technology-gap/269752629?i=269752972

LINKS:

Dana at twitter: https://twitter.com/Llydvina
Sandra at twitter: https://twitter.com/bimboubermensch
Pleasure Helmet podcast: https://soundcloud.com/pleasure-helmet
Dana's Mundus Imaginalis Substack: https://mundus.substack.com/
Adam on Leos and Kanye part 1: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/kanye-leos-and-a-new-pop-cultural
Adam on Leos and Kanye Part 2

Writer Will Samson hangs with Adam to discuss Public Enemy, Throbbing Gristle, industrial and rap music more broadly, and his recent article for Apocalypse Confidential.

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Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (live) https://music.apple.com/us/album/discipline-reprise-live/1412909636?i=1412909785
Throbbing Gristle - Dead Souls Live https://music.apple.com/us/album/dead-souls-live/1412909636?i=1412909776
Captain Beefheart - Dachau Blues https://music.apple.com/us/album/dachau-blues/1579587935?i=1579588371
Pere Ubu - Chinese Radiation https://music.apple.com/us/album/chinese-radiation/1061144951?i=1061144960
Public Enemy Night of the Living Bassheads https://music.apple.com/us/album/night-of-the-living-baseheads/1427923490?i=1427928629
Public Enemy - Burn Hollywood Burn https://music.apple.com/us/album/burn-hollywood-burn-feat-ice-cube-big-daddy-kane/1440837282?i=1440837849
Ice Cube - Who's The Mack https://music.apple.com/us/album/whos-the-mack/1422704616?i=1422705017

LINKS:
Will Samson's twitter: @_Will_Samson_ https://twitter.com/_Will_Samson_
Will's Apocalypse Confidential article: https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2021/05/12/war-at-33-1-3-throbbing-gristle-public-enemy-datapanik/

Alex Bienstock is an artist from Brooklyn, a PARTY BOY, a domestically violent sociopath who hates women, a based swaggot, a tender hearted lover of women, a racist, a homophobe, a homo, a hypochondriac who cant get sick, das ubermensch, a jew, an anti semite, the first person to do art ever. THE STOCK!

Bienstock is an IRL friend and his new book of writing and illustrations 'Da Bitch Gave Me Jew Balls' is the FIRST PUBLICATION EVER BY ADAM's NEW PUBLISHING IMPRINT SAFETY PROPAGANDA BOOKS. We are out of the first run but we are printing more copies that can be purchased through contacting Bienstock, Adam, or through the SP e-commerce site www.safetypropaganda.store.

SOUNDTRACK:

DEAD REPTILE SHRINE "Alpha Qabalstica" https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xPxsr8jh-rE
Lil Justo "Gualla" https://youtu.be/OB1NdsCDfpU
Dead Reptile Shrine "Above the Ziggurat they Dance" https://youtu.be/diq57Z9WwaE
Dead Reptile Shrine "Weapon Crucifixion and Drowning" https://youtu.be/nIbgl0iOWTU
Einsturzende Neubauten "Morning Dew" https://music.apple.com/us/album/morning-dew/1438434385?i=1438434399
To live and Shave in LA 2 "The Saddest Song in the World" https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-saddest-song-in-the-world/219832283?i=219832864
DJ Quik and Kurupt "Cream" https://music.apple.com/us/album/cream/711793971?i=711793997

LINKS:
Bienstock website: www.alexbienstock.com
Bienstock twitter: @ESCBAS
Bienstock instagram: @nicedudewhochills
Alex Bienstock "We, The Post Artists" for Safety Propaganda: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/we-the-post-artists-by-alex-bienstock
Interview with Bienstock: https://safetypropaganda.substack.com/p/we-the-post-artists-by-alex-bienstock

Adam and Ben kick it old school. No guests, all killer, no filler. Topics of discussion include the removal of Ben's wisdom teeth, Benjamin Bratton's Covid totalitarianism advocacy, the rise of a new medical authoritarianism, and the passing of the great musicians Joey Jordison (Slipknot drummer) drummer and Peter Rehberg (electronic music producer PITA). 

SOUNDTRACK:

PITA "Acid Udon": https://music.apple.com/us/album/acid-udon/262236237?i=262236373

Slipknot "Disasterpiece": https://music.apple.com/us/album/acid-udon/262236237?i=262236373

Ultravoxx "Slow Motion": https://music.apple.com/us/album/slow-motion/1444010165?i=1444010336

Sandwell District "Immolate" https://music.apple.com/us/album/immolare-function-version/470488354?i=470488357

Howlin Wolf "Evil is Goin On" https://music.apple.com/us/album/evil-is-going-on/1425203542?i=1425203977

LINKS:

Peter Rehberg remembered: https://thequietus.com/articles/30268-peter-rehberg-obituary

Gisele Viéne and Dennis Cooper sounftracked by Peter Rehberg and Stephen O' Malley https://vimeo.com/61087138

Joey Jordison eulogy https://www.nme.com/news/music/slipknots-founding-drummer-joey-jordison-has-died-at-46-3004210

Benjamin Bratton shittalks Agamben https://www.versobooks.com/books/3787-the-revenge-of-the-real

Nicolas Hausdorf takesdown Bratton https://im1776.com/2021/07/20/epidemic-epistemes/

CJ Hopins on the propaganda machine and how to fight it https://cjhopkins.substack.com/p/the-propaganda-war-and-how-to-fight

Connor Kelly and left lockdown skeptics https://leftlockdownsceptics.com/2021/07/collaboration-or-resistance-part-1-our-brand-new-shiny-fascist-state/?doing_wp_cron=1626901842.8362779617309570312500