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K-POP 2024 september
Loossemble – TTYL. The most successful of Loossemble’s three mini-albums in a little over a year, before they split with their label CTDENM. More on this and other post-LOONA related news this year in a separate forthcoming review. naevis –…
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K-POP 2024 august
K-POP 2024 ANNUAL REVIEW NMIXX – See That? NMIXX’s second EP of 2024 is even better than the first, and the first single See That? is as distinctive a mash up of styles and arrangement strategies as anything on this…
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K-POP 2024 july
(G)-IDLE – Klaxon. Definite candidate for K-pop banger of the summer. Absolute bubblegum hooks (“Honk honk honk honk honk honk!”) and sassy moves put this up there with f(x)’s 2011 hit Hot Summer. These girls just continued to eat up…
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K-POP 2024 june
NewJeans – Supernatural & Right Now. Last single of the year for NewJeans, and potentially forever depending on how their dispute with ADOR plays out. Being a Japanese release, the Right Now video features Takashi Murakami motifs in addition to…
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K-POP 2024 may
TripleS – Girls Never Die. Before Modhaus had reassembled the former LOONA subunit ODD EYE CIRCLE, Jaden Jeong had been busy working with a new modular girl group called TripleS, in which fans could vote for members and tracks for…
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K-POP 2024 april
Things heat up a bit in April. BABYMONSTER – SHEESH. Launched last year, YG Entertainment’s latest girl group follow on from BLACKPINK and 2NE1 before them. Sure, there’s a contemporary 4th gen streamlining to the production, but it’s recognisably a…
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K-POP 2024 march
LE SSERAFIM – Smart. Second single for the Fimmie’s EASY minialbum. Could have benefitted from shittyflutes like the first one, but that’s just expecting too much. WENDY – Wish You Hell. First Red Velvet solo of the year gives us…
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K-POP 2024 february
Moon Byul – Think About & TOUCHIN&MOVIN. MAMAMOO solo releases are always fun. Byul’s new album was no exception. Big brash pop tunes and cheesy dance moves from the tallest of the Moomoos. (By one centimetre, apparently) TEN – Nightwalker.…
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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
Gearing up for the Polyversity Press seasonal office party this evening, and it seems like a good time to remind you about our one special publication this year: Join Sally and her friends*, sailing the oceans of Math on a…
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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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