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I really started to focus more on DJing and then making electronic music with my involvement in System Corrupt.

Q. How did you come across System Corrupt?

The first time I heard about System Corrupt was when a fellow collage enthusiast John Jacobs (Non Bossy Posse) told me to hang around till the end of a party at 61 Regent Street to see the last act playing as System Corrupt (DJ Manson and some guy named Dave) he thought it would be right up my alley. I ended up going home, but the next day loads of my doof friends described it as the most terrible thing, crazy stupid fast gabba beats and breaks with people screaming political shit over the top. I kicked myself I had missed it, sounded like what I was looking for locally.

I had met DJ Manson/Al Corrupt a couple of times from the techno/doof scene and was a big fan of his DJ sets. He asked me if I wanted to join a crew he and Kizza (DJ Zeitgeist) were putting together to put on free party events of more extreme electronic music in interesting, often illegal locations as System Corrupt.

So I was involved with System Corrupt from the start, making zines and visuals to project, this led to DJing and then making my own “music” (I use that term pretty loosely). It was a small core group to begin with, doing everything, set up/pack down, playing and promoting.

Initially we did not own a sound system, but a guy named Mason was sympathetic to our cause and let us use his, he was amazingly supportive, those first parties would not have happened without him. Eventually we picked up bits and pieces of our own gear, but doing free parties there was very little money apart from donations and our system was a cobbled together affair.

The parties we put in were all in abandoned buildings and spaces, mostly illegal and we were able to pull this off on a regular basis, with very few of our events getting closed down. Later on in Sydney this became harder to do due to police involvement.

System Corrupt provided a space for all of these people making their own unique take on hard electronic/breakcore/noise. Such a huge number of people making music in the early 2000’s in the Sydney area, the Epping crew (Maladroit, 556a, Pilfernators), Passenger of Shit and the Blue Mountains crew, Mute Freak, Null Object, Al Corrupt, Anti Kati and Toecutter, just to name a few. But it grew into an amazing collective of like minded beings like Mindy Le Brock, Hamy, Emily Hoof, Letitia, Ben Michel, Leigh Russell, Aaron Evil, Fraughman , Xian and Misanthrope. (sorry if I have forgot people, it was so long ago!) I think it’s important to acknowledge that while some of these people did not make Breakcore as such, they were hugely important to our crew.

Some people who talk about this history, particularly online, often were not part of it. This is what I remember, my experience; others who were there would have a different version of events, these are the bits that stood out to me, or that I remember!

2022.05

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