It's a book about how to make and publish music on your own. Not fucking hard these days, grab a mic and a computer and put it on myspace under "experimental"... But anyways, learning from experienced people is always a bonus. ;)
Thought I'd post this excellent documentary on D.I.Y. culture here. This is what counterculture is about: the freedom, will and opportunity to create your own culture, rather then the predigested commercial nonsense we are continually spoon fed. The documentary contains interviews with several legendary underground culture-providers from the NYC area. The film is in eight parts and was uploaded by the filmmaker himself. :)
The gulf war was only a starting point and EBN consciously used media and military technology in their counter cultural assault on consensual reality. Their onslaught hit a nerve in the general public, and soon after the comercialist populists in U2 hired them to help create the stage show for the Zooropa tour and other visuals.
Not only were they radical though, they were also radically talented. In a style reminiscent of Public Enemy mixed with Negativland they constructed landscapes of political soundbites, military jargon, media snippets and funky beats. Their album Telecommunications Breakdown (1995) is an instant classic, and your collection should not be without. Download it (or buy it) and listen to it a few times. That's the least you could do.
I'm going to leave you with a link to my favorite track, by way of youtube, Electronic Behavior Control System, a track that expertly shows off their method. You gotta love the way they mix Clinton, Bush and Perot into a single unit.(long intro)
Historian and librarian by training, nerd and musician by lack of taste. My blog is highly eclectic ranging fra symbol analysis to blatant anarchism, nerdy chit chat and so forth. As a historian I am mostly concerned with myth complexes, symbolism and rituals in nationalist contexts.