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Artwork was inspired by such musicians as Dj Lostboi, Himera, Varg2, Scandinavian Star, t0ni, DARK0, Yung Gud, Torus.

The beautiful collage background is made by @localghxst "Précis"

made by pūga (me♡)

[ithisatanytime]

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[eurassia-angelwave]

Introducing Angelwave, the Russian daytime party series re-inventing trance by focussing on sunshine + positivity via ‘light wave’

“This is the sound we’re after,” writes Moscow-based promoter Gleb Sereda of Angelwave an events series co-founded and run with Andrei Smiryonnov about their modern approach to trance mus…

"Angelwave’s press releases are peppered with terms like ‘progressive audience’ and ‘future meta-physics,’ while also mentioning face control and a dress code of ‘light’ or ‘white’ clothing. The Евразия` team makes use of the club space in broad daylight — setting up fog machines and bright neon lights, printing themed banners and having racks of party merchandise — altogether making the club more akin to a closed fashion event. Many visitors choose Club Mate over the usual drink of choice for Moscow club-goers, beer or vodka. It is the middle of the day, after all".

[boiledleather]

Wet Nightmares: a conversation with the editors of erotic horror comics anthology ‘Mirror Mirror II’

What are your thoughts around criticisms of erotic horror as a genre that sensationalizes and glorifies violence, or abstracts violence as an idea rather than damage done to real people?

J: In my life I’ve experienced and witnessed enough violence that I don’t consider my feelings about violence to be an abstraction. My experiences are my experiences. My responsibility to write something honest takes priority.

I think we we can be overzealous in condemning creators for making work about trauma – Sean and I are both abuse survivors, but we’re sometimes criticized for insensitivity towards sexual violence and doing harm to survivors in that way. And no doubt many of those critics are survivors too. It’s tiresome to have to produce a resume of trauma to prove you’re allowed to discuss it, and when you do you get it from the other side – from people who think you’re too close to the subject to handle it well. What I’m getting at is that there’s no correct way to deal with violence in art, and what harms one reader can be healing to another. I’d rather give artists the benefit of the doubt.

S: Julia pretty much says it all here. I’ll just add that it goes back to what I said earlier about different approaches within horror – similarly, there are different ways to address and convey the pain and suffering experienced by real people. Certainly my work as a writer and now as an editor is an attempt to do so, with my own pain just for starters. The great power of fantastic fiction of all kinds, perhaps horror most of all, is that it can give voice to everyday feelings, emotions, and experiences the magnitude of which is beyond the ability of everyday language to express.

My partner and co-editor Julia Gfrörer and I spoke to Minh Nguyen about our comics anthology Mirror Mirror II for AQNB. I’m ashamed of myself for not thinking of “Wet Nightmares” sooner.

[pakui-hardware-blog]

Pakui Hardware, solo exhibition On Demand at EXILE, Berlin, 2017

http://www.aqnb.com/2017/06/19/like-lonely-gas-stations-reverberating-in-immense-space-pakui-hardwares-on-demand-at-exile/

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 i might have been thinking of this one, fuck it they are tied for psychotic breakdown theme of the summer