Noncompliant (fka DJ Shiva) is an uncompromising queer techno DJ/producer from the conservative state of Indiana. We talk Midwest raves, speaker freaking, phone taps, mixtapes, sci-fi and more.

Kurt Eckes put Milwaukee on the map in the ’90s with his Drop Bass Network parties and Even Furthur festival. In Part Two of this interview, he talks to Rave to the Grave podcast about Satanism and rituals, how to throw a rave, the craziest stories from Furthur, the RAVE Act, the Drop Bass label and Midwest hard acid, plague raves and starting a Kult.

Kurt Eckes of Milwaukee’s Drop Bass Network on American hardcore, acid tests, Midwest raves and being a rave outlaw.

Dance, underground performance, costume and clowns: Ms Easy rocks the stage from St. Louis to New Orleans to Shanghai.