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Homo Ludens And Blitzball
In his seminal book Homo Ludens: A Study Of Play Element In Culture, Dutch writer and historian Johan Huizinga writes on the play element of culture: “We come across another, very positive feature of play: it creates order, is order. Into an imperfect world and into the con fusion of life it brings a temporary,…
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45 Albums Of Note 2023
Angel Bat Dawid – Requiem For Jazz As explosive a live recording as you’re ever likely to hear – an album that’s both a eulogy to jazz’s past and a promise to its future. Incorporating elements of the ecstatic alongside the broad lineage of spiritual jazz, Requiem For Jazz elucidates an unbroken chain in black…
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Disintegration
“There are but four ways to die a sardonic spirit might have said to meThere is dying that occurs relatively suddenlyThere is dying that occurs relatively graduallyThere is dying that occurs relatively painlesslyThere is the death that is full of painThus by various means they are combinedThe sudden and the gradualThe painless and the painfulTo…
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25 Albums Of Note 2022
Burial – Antidawn Antidawn is immediately distinguished from Burial’s previous output – specifically the minimalist design aesthetic of his releases throughout the 2010’s – by its cover. Something outwardly warm and enveloping, a presence of familiarity – but one with a sinister trapping. A piece by contemporary artist Maya Hewitt, it elicits the scratchy crudeness…
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Deathdrive And Ravedeath
A decade removed from the peak-dominance that Club music – here used as a loose term for the club-centric and club-focused merger of EDM and Pop sensibilities with the aesthetic and spirit of 2000s R&B – held on the charts, and popular music has largely replaced the earnest, if thick, grinning death head of rave…
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The Ideal State Of Ambience: Sachiko M, Sine Waves and How To Inhabit Them
Entrenched somewhere between a pair of sine wave tones, Sachiko M achieves the ideal state of ambience In this article I will attempt to define, however loosely, the purpose and goal of musical ambience, how it relates to the aforementioned ideal state of ambience – specifically how it relates to Sachiko M and the release…
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Functional Lycanthropy
When King Nebuchadnezzar’s mind was warped and addled by God as punishment for his hubris, he spent seven lowly years as any unclean biblical animal. He ate sallow, sickly grass, his beard features grew bestial and for seven long years the most decorated, long-lasting king of Babylon reverted to a state of beasthood. This metamorphosis,…
HypIreStition Ruins
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