Master/ Slave Relationships.

Good Sex Illustrated: Tony Duvert.
Lordship & Bondage; Phenomenology of the Spirit: Hegel
Genet
Discipline & Punish.
Leo Bersani: Is the Rectum a Grave?

184BPM SHANGAAN OR BUST! (Speed as ecstatic force, Stereolab DJ 2003)

This week, i finally encountered the full force that is the Shangaan Electro allstars live at Berghain. Suffice to say they blew my socks off.

The thrill was akin to being on the Waltzers, an endless need to go faster, increasing the visceral force. People were invited onstage to lose their shit for a minute, instilling the spirit of Karaoke via dancing, showing us all that it's quite okay to let go.
A used car salesman, seducing the crowd to want MORE, to attain the G Force state of 184BPM. As we approached this state, my brain started whirring and i was transported back to when i saw Stereolab (?!) DJ about ten years ago at All Tomorrow's Parties festival. they started with loose funk, which increased with tempo, gradually introducing more free sax and incomprehensible rhythms, climaxing in a trance that was only shaken having taken a swift loo break, and returning to see the audience in a full on trance, dancing to the most loose and lucid rhythm commanding you to ask how the hell this was achieved. People were whirled up into a frenzy and now that the beat was beyond logic, were in free fall down a mountain, digging their heels into the dancefloor so as to gain a grip, yet still looking like bikes speeding down a side road of the roughest cobblestones.
I was astounded.

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