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The Breakdown: 'Nobody will give us a gig 'cause everyone hates us'

Three women (one in front laying, two behind crouching) and a man (crouched in the back) dressed in punk fashion.

This week on The Breakdown we take a deeper look at Lolita Storm, one of the stranger and more fondly remembered acts of the first era of digital hardcore, and attempt to disentangle their strange existence as as a group thrust into the vanguard of feminist punk despite having no

The Breakdown: An Atari ST and No Brain

A man sits at a computer holding a mouse on top of a rack module. A CRT monitor and keyboard are visible. The air is smoky.

This week on The Breakdown, we wax nostalgic about simpler times and the janky DIY brilliance of early breakcore. There’s a style I like to call “bassy breakcore” that I’ve been infatuated with for a while; if you’ve ever listened to Alec Empire or early Sonic Subjunkies

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