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DiY-Fest Volume 1 released
8 August 2001

DiY-Fest (do it yourself festival), a continuing not-for-profit/nonprofit touring event which first materialized last December at the Wetlands Preserve club in New York city, is both an outlet for independent artists and an activist organization aiming to inspire and enable youth to create and think independently.
    A project of the youth oriented King’s Mob Productions team in New York, they first toured this past winter and are now finishing up with the 2001 Warped Tour in the US—during which they are holding workshops, showing films, and presenting a variety of performances. They’re putting together a major US tour for this fall, and we’ll bring you details as soon as they’re confirmed.
    Yesterday, Alec Empire’s Digital Hardcore Recordings released DiY-Fest Compilation Volume 1—a fog-burning, dust-clearing, eye-opening 24 track blast of music, spoken word, and high quality recorded orgasms.
    Artists and speakers on Volume 1 include Jello Biafra (Eric Boucher), Nicole Blackman, Creation Is Crucifixion, MC D-Stroy, Ani Difranco, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dr. Ducky Doolittle (who writes about her orgasms on track 24: “Two highly sensitive microphones recorded every breath as I orgasmed three times in 15 minutes... I encourage everyone to put it on their answering machines...”), Hanin Elias, Nic Endo, The Icarus Line, Miracle Of 86, Mystic, Matt Pizzolo, Space Robot Scientists, White Collar Crime, William Upski Wimsatt, Howard Zinn, and others.
    While there is not one instance of fluff on this 78 minute marathon of youth energy, its most striking aspect is that, as wildly varied as it is, it coheres so very, very well. I’d say it probably sets a new standard for compilations in terms of the whole exceeding the sum of its parts.
    Now, in terms of the spoken word content, there’s more rhetoric than reason here. But alternative rhetoric, just like alternative art, serves a critical role and we’re all for it. And, to be fair, there’s more reason on DiY-Fest than usually leaves the lips of our elected officials.
    Anyway, I’m looking forward to more from King’s Mob and DiY-Fest and give the Compilation Volume 1 an energized and hope filled four bites out of five. | DiY-Fest | | CD from Amazon USA | | top of page |

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