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K-POP 2024 january
The year opened with no less than four comebacks from heavyweight fourth generation girl groups ITZY – Untouchable. Straight off the blocks with a confident banger. Top non-lexible vocals (“Bam-bam-bam-ba-ri!”) and the girls literally destroying a cohort of riot cops.…
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3 collisions – entropy circus
The twin propellers of a Beechcraft Baron E55, diving though the air above Amarillo, Texas. The left prop describes a broken circle, while the right is a spiral jetty stretching out some twenty three years into the future: Interstate 25…
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pulaski expressway trials
5100 system + wavestate + tracker + op1 extracted from a three hour studio session @ AM MODEMPARK studio, vienna
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virtual angel subliminals
From ARTMS Virtual Angel video. All the things that we almost saw. Don’t do this at home, kids!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqUP26j4XWU
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entropy circus backcatalogue
It’s all here! 1989 to the present day. Entropy Circus, Vitreous Enamel Development Corp (VEDiC), Vitreous Enamel Development Assoc (VEDA), The Benelux, The Benelux Circus, Platform Five(5), Zali Krishna, Solomon Kirchner… And it’s all free to download or stream: https://archive.org/search?query=zali+krishna&sort=-publicdate
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videos
You wanna see weird little movies? We’ve been making videos for about twenty years for ourselves and for acts like Robert Sotelo and The Wharves. We use a wide variety of techniques and then post the results to YouTube where…
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EC/360
The challenge for progressive jug bands during the Cold War was one of the sheer size of the processing equipment required to create works that transcended the Clyfford Still barrier. Most state-level acts, such as The Tel Aviv Jug Stompers…
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K-POP 2023 – part two
One thing has been bothering me about K-pop for the last few years: why are girl groups generally superior to boy groups? This was not always the case. During the golden age of the second generation, the imperial grandeur of…
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K-POP 2023 – part one
This year has been huge in K-pop. South Korean pop culture is at a pivotal point where the new fourth generation of groups is making a definitive impact on the landscape. The most notable act to break the mould last…
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polyversity press
Polyversity Press is a small publisher of quality books of indeterminate genre with covers that look like textbooks for subjects that almost certainly don’t qualify as real sciences. Here are the books we publish on Lulu: https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/nearandomeda
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math yacht
Join Sally and her friends*, sailing the oceans of Math on a yacht, searching for the elusive Ferrero Rocher Ambassador’s Extended Omniverse©. Math Yacht is a picture book for grown-ups** who enjoy utopian adventures in unlikely worlds. Both the standard…
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the ottakringer protocol
“Six years ago, we released The Puntigamer Hypothesis. It was a turning point, it was an axis mundi in the Entropy Circus landscape. Everything that followed it was an implicit addendum.” Krishna is deep inside his schtick. He adjusts his…
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k(raut)pop?
aespa, Amon Duul II, ashra, CAN, Crayon Pop, iKON, kpop, La Dusseldorf, LE SSERAFIM, Moon Byul, Neu!, newjeans, popol vuhWhat if K-pop but Krautrock? What if Krautrock but K-pop? Here is some bad Photoshop that shows how these extended ensembles might play out.
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Hermeneutic Hagiography in the Johoba House
Night buses were failing to arrive in threes on every conceivable point along the Holloway Road. An icy cold blew in from Cassiopeia in a Ptolemaic sky of failing streetlamps. “The average is actually two,” said Sally. “A statistician did…
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sally in the 70s
A set of album covers that Sally Kitchener was featured on from 1971 to 1978. You won’t find these on discogs. She’s a bit too obscure for that.
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bezier city
A Unity environment of gothic bezier curves. Why? Because we could. There are these glowing people who are annoying but you can knock them over, and there are some Coke machines around the place. Yay! https://iotacism.github.io/bezier
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blighted island
A Unity virtual environment that is damp, full of pigeons and there’s fuck-all to do. Just like the real UK! https://iotacism.github.io/blighted/
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eternal woolworths
“The first chamber was the size of Greenland, the second the size of the moon. The final chamber was the size of Blackpool Woolworths. The astronauts soon lost themselves in the pick’n’mix aisles.” The madeleine dipped in lime tisane, as…
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gigography
NB: Zali Krishna has retired from live music but continues to record krishna: 08.06.16 – open jack, new river studios, manor house07.02.15 – lead guitar with after man – apiary studio, bethnal green25.06.14 – solo set at gertrude house gig09.03.14…
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the iotacism tarot
“This tarot deck is neither an act of protest nor a revolution. It is simply a nosedive into an unconscious that cannot be certain of a collective ground of being, or any other ground of being. It takes its cues…
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