Welcome to the retro-tastic sixty-fourth episode of the 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Lockdown Tapes!

This week we dive back into the Thrill-Cast archive to our 2015 two-part interview with artist Steve Yeowell, now abridged into one episode! From how he got started in the industry on a toy tie-in series with Grant Morrison to swashbuckling across the cosmos with The Red Seas, this in-depth chat with Steve begins with everyone's favourite 'superbrat', Zenith, before moving on to Maniac 5, Devlin Waugh, and much more!

Over the coming weeks the Thrill-Cast will continue to broadcast every week, with both new episodes and favourite interviews from the past six years – so make sure you’re keeping yourselves and your loved ones safe, and stay tuned for more from the Galaxy’s Greatest Podcast!

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The 2000 AD Lockdown Tapes - Steve Yeowell (2015 interview)

A few months back, Low Entropy asked me to do a mix for his brilliant Doomcore Records.  I thought I'd share this now on Soundcloud.

Hard and fast.  As hardcore should be.

01. Stickhead - Desperate Demolition - Kotzaak Unltd
02. Loftgroover and The Maniac - Kneel Before Me (Industrial Strength Remix) - Redhead Records
03. Asylum MD - Cold As Steel - Disturbance Records
04. F.U.H.D. - Violence II - Crapshoot Hardcore
05. Bold Bob - Dive Into Steel - Kotzaak Unltd
06. DJ Freak - Korea - Hard of Hearing
07. The Kotzaak Klan - Bang Your Fuckin' Head - Kotzaak Unltd
08. Spike - Scalien - Crapshoot Hardcore
09. DJ Freak - Whatever Happened to Rotterdam - Hard of Hearing
10. Traffik - Afraid of the Dark - Bitch
11. Jack Lucifer - Endless Horrors - Kotzaak Unltd
12. Agent Death/The Maniac - The Homage Trak - Redhead Records
13. Gangstar.Toons.Industrie - Eraze - GTI
14. Berzerker - Koala, Fish, Mutant, Bird - Bastard Loud
15. Traffik - Surrender - Bitch
16. Sonic Dragolgo - Ponk - B.E.A.S.T. Records
17. GGM - Cockrot - Hard of Hearing
18. E-De Cologne & Eradicator - Fuck Collection - CDR

Doomcore Records Pod Cast 008

Today we celebrate Bicycle Day, a modern semi-holiday (unrecognized by official governmental agencies yet observed by psychedelic enthusiasts across the globe) that commemorates Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman’s bike ride home from his lab on April 19th, 1943, after ingesting 250 micrograms of lysergic acid diethlymide, and in the process creating the world's first recorded intentional LSD trip. When Hoffman originally synthesized the compound in 1938, in the Sandoz Pharmeacuticals laboratory, in Basel, he had deemed it next to useless, and put it up on the shelf to be forgotten - but five years later, something within him told him to take a second look. The rest, as they say, is history. 
Today’s Voices of Esalen episode is a treasure drawn from our extensive archives - an interview with Albert Hoffman himself, conducted by none other than Stanislav Grof, sometimes known as the godfather of LSD psychotherapy. Grof was a Czechoslovakian psychoanalyst who was enormously influenced by Hoffman’s discovery of LSD; in his research in Czechoslovakia he oversaw tens of thousands of supervised therapeutic LSD trips. Grof would emigrate to the United States in the late 1960’s, a move precipitated by the Soviet invasion of his country. Grof spent more than ten years as a teacher in residence at the Esalen Institute during the 1970’s and 80’s, where he developed the practice of holotropic breath work and became one of the founders of the school of transpersonal psychology. In this interview, Grof and Hoffman explore a host of topics, including Hoffman’s discovery of LSD and how on his first trip, Hoffman freaked out and thought he was going insane, then thought he was dying; how Hoffman then became aware that his new discovery would have immense significance to the field of psychiatry; why Hoffman believed LSD could be used as a model psychosis and a way to study schizophrenia; how Hoffman collaborated with amateur mycologist R. Gordon Wasson to create a synthetic version of so-called magic mushrooms, which would be known as psilocybin; how Hoffman traveled to Mexico to deliver this modern version of mushrooms to the famed curandera Maria Sabina, who had introduced Wasson to the mushrooms in the first place, and more. They end this interview by speaking about Hoffman’s reaction to the way LSD escaped the laboratory and infiltrated culture during the turbulent 1960s. 
This interview was conducted at Esalen Institute in 1984 - just one part of the ever evolving and complex tapestry of history that unfolded here in Big Sur.

Albert Hoffman: Stan Grof Interviews Hoffman at Esalen, 1984

Distorted Reality, Kicker

Taken from the Méconium 4 track EP 'My Pets Should Be Grubs'

DL: chelicerate.bandcamp.com/album/my-pets-should-be-grubs

1. ZeroCrossings
2. Gyors
3. HackBack 
4. Drei

OFFICIAL : www.meconium.xyz
DISCOGS : www.discogs.com/artist/265786-Meconium
INSTA : www.instagram.com/meconium.noise/
FB : www.facebook.com/meconium.noise/
SOUNDCLOUD : soundcloud.com/meconium

Artwork (c) by Mattia Travaglini Artworks
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contact: (mattiadesigner@gmail.com)
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Méconium - HackBack

Drummage Wastelandz

Spliff Monk - Sensory Violation Mix On HardSoundRadio-HSR.

Really happy to be able to put out this mix by the boss man of Sensory Violation himself; Spliff Monk aka Hammerdamage.
I've been hooked ever since I discovered The Dark Shadow EP back in the 90's. For anyone that doesn't know: The music released on Sensory Violation is hardcore.... But much darker!

Spliff Monk - Sensory Violation Mix On HardSoundRadio-HSR

the only goal?? to make you danc!n', to yell

mixed on OUTLINE PRO 405, 2 XDJ1000 and NO SYNC

Consequences

Asylum M.D dEEMENTED rECORDINGS

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