The History of North American Breakcore B2B With A LIVE JAM Streamed LIVE TONITE!

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In celebration of the original Schizophrenia party, SCHIZOPHRENIA II takes place tonite. HUUGE breakcore party happenings in Detroit this weekend, including the main event TONITE DEC 1, 2007. This event will be streamed live.





Tune in this Saturday to Deadly Buda Radio for a special online audio presentation of Schizophrenia II, broadcast LIVE from Detroit.

Date: Saturday, December 1
Time: 10 PM to 6 AM EST (GMT - 5)
Where: Online at Deadly Buda Radio via Detroit, MI

This 8 hour broadcast will feature sets by the following:

Noize Creator
Davros vs. Unibomber: The Final Amiga 500 Battle
Doormouse
Fishead
Xanopticon
Fanny
Cutups
In Broken Key
Adjust

For more info on this event, visit http://schizophrenia.c8.com

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Schizophrenia veteran DJ Fishead provides some
historical context on what this whole thing is all about.

</SPAN>Minneapolis: March 14th, 1997
Heavy Mental

It was the night before a mammoth party called Stairway To Headphones. Delta 9 was coming to town and what started as a pre-party turned into an event of its own. Tron, JethroX, Doormouse and I were on the bill - along with support talent from a handful of Minnesota locals. The show was billed as a gathering of the Midwest Hardcorps and the main room featured a wide variety of hard styles. Speedcore, digital hardcore, the darkest of drum and bass. I was slotted to follow a live PA by a guy named Substance P. He set the tone for the evening, and artist after artist tore the place up until the police finally shut things down shortly after JethroX got started... and well before things had fully developed.

A few months later....

Substance P and the posse living at the East Side Crackshack get in touch. They were putting together an event to be called Schizophrenia. Doormouse and I are again booked to play (our third and final show together in Minneapolis), with Jon Dica coming in from Madison and a scattering of locals (including Arjay Khetamine of Urban Guerrila and the East Side Crack Squad). Entox isn't able to make it, but this leaves room for an unbilled live Amiga battle between Davros and Unibomber.

Minneapolis: September 13th, 1997
Schizophrenia [view flyer]

By the time Schizophrenia arrives many things have happened. Doormouse has released the Fuckin' Doormouse cassette and played his first shows outside the US, I've become a staff writer at Massive Magazine and spent the bulk of the summer travelling around the midwest... but most importantly the varied forms of hard music that were presented at Heavy Mental have begun to gel into a cohesive sound. Everybody has been listening to everything and finding their own ways to fit things together. One could say that Heavy Mental was the night that things were conceived, but that after six months of gestation Schizophrenia was the night where the midwest breakcore scene was birthed.

The night was full of insane moments - Substance P played a track that triggered NINETEEN kickdrums at the same time and smoke began to pour out of the speakers... Doormouse started off with the Nasenbluten track on "How To Kill All Happy Suckaz" before launching into double copies of his own 414 Tracks on Digital Hut and then, towards the end of his set he whipped out a copy of Paranoid by Black Sabbath, dropped War Pigs and scratched along with the guitar solo. The place went nuts. People had come from all over the place... down from Canada, up from Kentucky... from Wisconsin, North Dakota - wherever! The venue was crammed. It got incredibly hot and the humidity level was completely ridiculous. People started filtering out as the night wore on, and things were almost at a level where it was possible to move freely and breath properly... and then came the Amiga battle, and all hell broke loose all over again. At the end of the night a promoter came up and tried to book the whole line-up to play in his town!

I distinctly remember walking out of the venue after it was all over. I felt slightly dazed. Everything seemed blurry and out of focus... it was then that I realized the entire area was blanketed in a fog so thick that I couldn't see the end of the block. It was as if all the moisture in the venue had spewed out into the streets and started taking over the city.

Within a year Doormouse and Unibomber had released two split 12"s on their own Distort imprint, Davros was preparing his first record for LowRes, and the first of the infamous barn parties was already in the works. Doormouse, Substance P and I all played the mainstage at the 1998 edition of Furthur (which also featured a rather dynamic performance by Meat!)... and in addition to gigs throughout western Canada, I spent the summer of '98 on the road with the Technostate crew - driving to New York and back, and helping to establish a network of like-minded people along the way.

Detroit: December 1st, 2007
Schizophrenia II

Ten years later, the core of that party comes together again alongside LowRes labelhead Adjust (Detroit), and Wrecked's Cutups (Pittsburgh) - two of the many people that organized shows for the Technostate tour... if that isn't enough, the line-up also features live performances from Fanny, Xanopticon, In Broken Key and Noize Creator! Who knows what direction things will take this time... I can't wait to find out.


— DJ Fishead, Montreal, 2007