Death Pact International is a musical concept project created by "power electronics" and "death industrial" project The Grey Wolves[1] during the 1980s. The essential concept behind Death Pact International (DPI) is that anyone can produce music, perform live, or utilise any other media, under the name. All DPI material is open to use by anyone in any way as long as it remains under the banner of Death Pact International. It could be said that DPI is the first Open Source music project.
In an interview in Black Magazine (Arne 1999)[2] Marco Deplano described Death Pact International as "a power electronic/industrial project devoted to PURE CULTURAL TERRORISM."
Often tackling difficult material, much of the output of DPI has aimed at challenging censorship and established taboos. As such the DPI Manifesto warns that
Over the years the DPI moniker has been used by members of The Grey Wolves, Wertham, Genocide Organ[3] and Vidna Obmana[4], among others. DPI has also seen music released on such legendary labels as Korm Plastics, Staalplaat, and Open Wound, as well as many lesser known noise labels. Most recently[5], Tho-So-AA and Operation Cleansweep members performed live as a unit of DPI in Tokyo, Japan.
DPI was born in 1985 and there have been a bunch of tapes and live actions done under this moniker.
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