About Amok Dispatch

In 1986, emerging out of the creative ferment of LA’s punk rock and noise music community, a collective called Amok was formed dedicated to investigating and disseminating “the extremes of information.” Lacking the funds to actually stock a bookstore, they decided to issue a 30-page combination dada-inspired collage and book catalog dubbed the Amok First Dispatch. The Amok First Dispatch was organized like no other book catalog or bookstore – eschewing traditional genres it set up its own categories: Control, Mayhem, Orgone, Sleaze and others. The Amok First Dispatch became an immediate underground sensation and counted psychedelic visionary Timothy Leary among its first enthusiastic mail order customers.

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