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Editor’s note: This is the transcript of Charles Krafft’s talk at the 2015 London Forum, November 27, 2015. We wish to thank Buttercup Dew for finding a copy of this video after it had been deleted from YouTube and Hyacinth Bouquet for the transcription. (more…)
Charles Krafft, “Von Dutch” windmills
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Editor’s note: The following is the transcript of Charles Krafft’s appearance on Counter-Currents Radio, no. 38.
GJ: I’m Greg Johnson, welcome to Counter-Currents Radio. My guest today is Seattle artist Charles Krafft. Charlie, welcome back to Counter-Currents Radio.
CK: Thank you, Greg. Good to be back. (more…)
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On the Counter-Currents Radio fundraiser livestream for July 26th, 2020, Greg Johnson is joined by special guest Morgoth to discuss culture, nostalgia, individualism, music, television, and the End of History. (more…)
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When I discovered that the Slovene fascist/Communist/anarchist (depending on who you ask) band and art project Laibach was going to be performing in Slovenia’s capital, Ljubljana – which, until a century ago, was known by its German name of Laibach – on September 7 with the Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra, as a longtime devotee, I knew I had to be there. (more…)
Laibach in Trbovlje, October 29, 2017.
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When I’ve tried to describe Laibach to the uninitiated, the best analogy I’ve come up with is, “Laibach is what would emerge if you were to take a group of industrial musicians and a group of political scientists and lock them in a gallery containing nothing but fascist, Communist, and modernist art for a year and then released them.” (more…)
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Greg Johnson, John Morgan, and Michael Polignano reconvene for a new weekly Counter-Currents Radio podcast. This week, we discuss last weekend’s White Lives Matter rally in Shelbyville and John and Mike’s recent visit to Slovenia. (more…)
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Whenever a person of any prominence expresses interest in or agreement with tabooed ideas like White Nationalism, anti-Semitism, or Holocaust revisionism, the standard Judeo-Leftist strategy is to destroy him socially and economically — unless, of course, there are no legal barriers to outright murder. (more…)
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Filippo Marinetti, 1876-1944, era diferente da maior parte da vanguarda cultura do século XIX. Eles estavam rebelando-se contra o espírito de vários séculos de liberalismo, racionalismo, a ascensão das massas democráticas, o industrialismo, e o domínio da elite financeira. (more…)
Rammstein drummer Christoph Schneider plants Old Glory on the next planet over
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In 2004, the German “New Hard Rock” band Rammstein released their fourth and greatest album, Reise Reise
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Editor’s Note:
This much-expanded version of a previously-published essay on Filippo Marinetti is chapter 4 of Kerry Bolton’s Artists of the Right: Resisting Decadence, forthcoming from Counter-Currents.
Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944, was unlike most of the post-19th century cultural avant-garde. (more…)
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Generally, I find it impossible to like popular music unless I was exposed to a particular performer or group before I turned 21. A large part of the problem is that my tastes have been “corrupted” by classical music. (more…)
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One hundred years ago today, on May 18, 1911, Gustav Mahler died in Vienna. Born on July 7, 1860, Mahler is one of the great composers of the late Romantic era, along with such figures as Edward Elgar (1857–1934), Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), Richard Strauss (1864–1949), Jean Sibelius (1865–1957), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), and Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943).
Mahler is also the only Jewish composer among the first rank of European classical composers. (more…)
Poster for Laibach/Bach "Kunst der Fuge" concert
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Laibach je světoznámá slovinská hudební skupina založená v roce 1980 v komunistické Jugoslávii. Ačkoli se jejich tvorba často klasifikuje jako „industrial“, nereflektuje to plně jejich hudební a koncepční mnohost. (more…)
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Just a few remarks on the 30 year jubilee of Laibach, of whom I have recently confessed myself a fan in this blog. Since their formation in 1980 the world has greatly changed, but so have the group themselves (musically rather to their disadvantage), and from their original lineup only frontman Milan Fras and Ivan Novak remain.
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Editor’s Note:
Although the author of this article does not like Laibach as much as I do, this is just the first of several pieces occasioned by Laibach’s recent 30th anniversary. Stay tuned.
Prampolini's portrait of Filippo Marinetti, 1876–1944
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Filippo Marinetti is unlike most of the post-nineteenth Century cultural avant-garde who were rebelling against the spirit of several centuries of liberalism, rationalism, the rise of the democratic mass, industrialism, and the rule of the moneyed elite. (more…)
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Czech translation here
Laibach
Volk
London: Mute Records, 2006
Laibach
Kunst Der Fuge
Ljubljana: Dallas Records, 2008
