_ _ _ _ _ __ ___ __ _ __| | ___ _ __ ___ | | ___| |_| |_ ___ _ __ ___ | '__/ _ \/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ '__/ __| | |/ _ \ __| __/ _ \ '__/ __| | | | __/ (_| | (_| | __/ | \__ \ | | __/ |_| || __/ | \__ \ |_| \___|\__,_|\__,_|\___|_| |___/ |_|\___|\__|\__\___|_| |___/ ___________________________________ |-----__ __-----| | ---___ ___--- |__________________________ | ---___--- | ___ | | | __ __ _ _ __ |-_ | | |___________________________________| _______ ___ |___| | | ___ _ _ _ | | | |_____________________________| For the first time a real letter section! A letter section is great because the person who writes can't react to our answer so we always have the last word! If you have any ramblings, questions and remarks we should know of drop us a line at Shadowwolfeditor AT g m a i l . com ///\\\ Here is a pungent letter from Italy: How dare you make fun of our techhouse scene in your stupid christmas magazine which is really shit. We have the best DJs you are just a frustrated and jealous dilletante! IUTP Italian Union of Techhouse Producers SW: I presume you are referring to our 'Confessions from Club Promoters' article regarding M.Lamborgini and D.Macaroni in our last issue. You will be excited to learn that we made some more fun of minimal techhouse, scroll down a few pages to read our new 'From the diary of a techhouse producer", or should we have called it "diarrhea from a techhhouse producer"??? SW ///\\\ Here is an uplifting letter all the way from the intriguing Channel Islands, we found it so intriguing (or disturbing?) that we gave it the 'Letter of the Month' honours: Dear Shadow Wolf, There might still be hope if we mildly chemically microdose/lobotomize all stupid people (climate deniers, MAGA supporters, religious fundamentalists, evangalicals, Louis Vuton bag users, Flat Earthers, antivaxers, shallow Instagram Influencers among many others) give them a megadose of mood lifters and let them roam around freely on a closed off island were they can eat bacon flavored synthetic nuggets from automatic food dispensers shaped like Jesus or whoever their delusional savoir is. When the weather is no good they can seek shelter in giant sheds were they can watch Star Wars & Tom Hanks movies projected on an enormous screen. And so they can roam around happily and free in a pastoral garden of eden while they don't interfere with the workings of the real world. Talking about the real world...another option would be to give them virtual reality helmets, feed them an unlimited amount of those Synthetic Bacon nuggets porridge mixed with Diazepam through feeding tubes so they become giant vessels of lard and let them be sour and dumb as much as they want in their own virtual world. That makes you think of a rather shocking realization...who knows we are already in a simulation set up for stupid people by another reality where civilization was fed up with their antics. It will be like an Infinite Matryoshka doll of inbred stupidity realities...quite an existentialist nightmare!!! Mortima Eggberry, Gorey - Jersey UK SW: Well Mortima, first of all these seem excellent ideas at a glance, but who will decide who gets lobotomized or not? What if I or you, in a hypothesized circumstance, have to accidentally use a LV bag, perhaps when you are carsick and need to puke into something and that is the only one available? And which island do you have in mind? I would like to propose Ibiza. Also a horrifying prospect that we are nothing more but mere giant heaps of lard living in a giant illusion...but then again synthetic nugget feeders in the shape of Jesus might be an excellent idea to upscale that giant puppetshow that is religion to a new level... SW ///\\\ a heartwarming letter from Cornwall: Hello! I am a newsagent from Swanpool Cornwall. The other day a customer came in asking for a copy of the Shadow Wolf Cyberzine because she had heard it was WILD and all her friends read it from front to back. I told her 'That's only on the internet love, in cyberspace for people with computers innit' I asked her 'Why don't you buy a copy of DJmag instead' but she said nobody reads that, 'its soooo square'. And then I thought about it and indeed I have never ever sold a copy of DJmag in my 35 years running this newsstand. I heard once that a hairdresser in Portleven buys it for his customers reading table, but if they really read it...maybe they just look at the pictures...I don't know! As you are in the know of the magazine business could you maybe enlighten me whats the deal with this mag? SW: The solution to this mystery is simple. The only people that buy DJmag are the people that have been featured, reviewed or whatever in the given issue. They buy it to show to their mum, spouses or an (often hopeless) object of affection. I guess there are not many DJ's or producers in your lovely village of Swanpool and that might be good thing! I must admit that I once bought a copy too when I was interviewed by them just to show to my mum, then I hid it in the deepest crevices of a closet...its cover with an eerily photoshopped portrait of Afrojack is truly one of humankinds most horrifying artefacts and apart from my mum I rather would not let the world know I was in DJMAG! SW