WHY THE DEADLY TYPE?

-by Deadly Buda

The original reason for this newspaper’s existence was that of a mail order form. My record label, Deadly Systems, needed to sell more records, and thus, needed more exposure to it’s potential customers. The essential problem was, that there was no reliable print venues in the United States that were covering Hardcore Techno-Rave Music. Granted, a few magazines will have the occasional regional section or record review, but most don’t even address the fact that it is a genre, despite the fact they wouldn’t be around without hardcore’s contribution to the scene from the very get-go! This just added insult to injury for me, because as one of the American Rave Scenes pioneers, I have had to watch chumps I’ve blown off the decks previously, and still could, make more money than me, and listen to snotty nosed 14 year olds tell me how great the chemical brothers are, and generally watched a scene I was intimately involved with get flushed down the toilet by a bunch of sell-outs and back-stabbers. Pissed-Off? Fuck-Yeah.

This phenomena is generally what happens in our society these days, in just about any field involving money. So you could say that the rave scene was truly assimilated on just about all fronts by the mainstream. This aggravated a problem of misconception for the music itself . Most people being introduced to Hardcore had no idea about the ideas surrounding it-or that there even were any! To most people, even a few making music they claimed was “hardcore”, it was just fast, noizy, and supposed to piss you off. This is retarded. Nothing can be further from the truth, and that is why “The Deadly Type” exists today, to re-define Hardcore. Firstly, “RE” as to do it again, as people are not even aware of it’s influences, history or forgot the entire social context. Secondly to re-claim the genre from some of the moronic dolts on the right, that want to tie it’s dodgy ideolgies such as Nazism, Racism and Homophobia to the music. Third-to take the the music and culture a step further. Where that is, I hope will be directly aided by the newsletter.

DEADLY BUDA