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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 7h

If you wanted someone to get to know you, what horror movie would you show them?

The Man in the Planet at his window with lever in hand.
Eraserhead (1977)

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 15h

Under Heavy Manners (1980) Robert Fripp, with vocals by David Byrne music.youtube.com/watch?v=kdZ6...

Under Heavy Manners cover art (1980)
Robert Fripp, with vocals by David Byrne

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 15h

This video reminds me of the several layers across which I have had difficulties appreciating Techno. Without noticing, it also points to major sorrows in the demise of Classical. youtu.be/fIQzvSS-ANs?...

youtu.be

How Techno Lost It's Patience | Voltage Labs

YouTube video by Voltage Labs

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 03/10/2026

Now that Bandcamp Friday is over maybe I can get some sleep.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 03/10/2026

“Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.”

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 02/10/2026

For the analog purists:

An ad showing a physical emulation of Tetris where colored blocky plastic shapes can be stacked through vertical grooves from the top.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 30/09/2026

Techno history in the chat, yet again!

Except from a Gemini chat log:

The Detroit-to-Duesseldorf loop—where Black youth in a collapsing industrial American city looked at stone-faced German intellectuals pretending to be robots and thought, "That is the future of funk"—is one of the most beautiful, counter-intuitive anomalies in music history.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/09/2026

Funko unexpectedly salvaged my Poor Life Decision (of buying Funko Pop! dolls) with a single announcement:

Alia Atreides: Bloody Edition in Pop! Movies, by Funko

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/09/2026

Moka, upon returning from hiatus: “Oh, we’re playing chainsaws now?”

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/09/2026

The “Western” perspective on music and musicianship, (excluding Classical, Showtunes, and other relative antiquities.)

A section from a Gemini chat:

An auteur musician in the West—whether a solo experimental composer or a tight-knit indie rock outfit—is inherently constrained by their own taste, muscle memory, instrument proficiency, and personal history. They operate under a romantic mandate of consistency; a sharp left turn feels like a betrayal of the "self."

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 27/09/2026

Going thru my CDs tonight, or what I can find of them, I’m finding more repeat purchases than I knew. 💿💿💿🤷

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 26/09/2026

I’ve been reeling from an inversion of my primary musical aesthetics. It’s not that I no longer like what I’ve long liked, it’s just that I’ve fallen further outside the firm rejections that adhere to transgressive + avant-garde artistic culture.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 22/09/2026

Sometimes music-genres correlate with qualities in the music, sometimes they identify scenes or other social patterns. Often they adhere to a vague mixture of the two. I hate taxonomy but I am addicted to it. 😭

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 20/09/2026

I sorta miss Cleveland and sorta don’t. My whole fixation-on-music thing has been going off the rails or something.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 20/09/2026

No Wave political vibes, then and now.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 16/09/2026

Elusive Power is the newest Brooddark album, his second on Cryo Chamber. (That label’s CD sale is still in effect… oh gawd have I become Simon Heath’s tool??)

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 16/09/2026

Brooddark released an album on Winter Light in March that I didn’t discover until now. “Neurotransmission” stood out in my first listening but I like all of Deliro. “Death Valley” is another excellent track.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 15/09/2026

Music for Ghosts Sonic Area (2012) #NP

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 08/09/2026

Hijacker by Jeremy Inkel #NP

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 08/09/2026

Matt Taggart/Fluxus MT new noise-table travel setup. youtu.be/Rs4CCPeceEQ?...

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Travel Set up

YouTube video by Fluxus MT

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 07/09/2026

And Shadow by Sonic Area #NP

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 06/09/2026

Weeks of study have culminated in my being able to see this MV by Seo Taiji and Boys with utter delight. That dependency helps me grasp how context is vital for musical enjoyment . music.youtube.com/watch?v=OEDH...

music.youtube.com

서태지와 아이들(Seotaiji and Boys) - 난 알아요(I Know) M/V

YouTube video by seotaiji

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 05/09/2026

I love it that the Damned were too early to know that 70s guitar solos aren’t allowed in Punk Rock.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 05/09/2026

Those damned fans. Or should I say Damned Fans.

Screenshot of lyrics to Fan Club by the Damned.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 04/09/2026

🍸💊🦇💊🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

A cartoon illustration of the “bat country!” moment in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, except it’s He-Man with the hat, sunglasses, and cigarette holder and Skeletor driving the convertible. Caption reads:

WE WERE ON THE EDGE OF ETERNIA
WHEN THE POWER OF GREYSKULL BEGAN TO TAKE HOLD

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 04/09/2026

“Long Play” one might say.

A quote of David Bennun on the Wikipedia page for AMT:

Acid Mothers Temple have in their two-decade existence recorded far more head-melting music than any sane person would know what to do with.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 04/09/2026

I’m pretty unimpressed with Marshall McLuhan overall but do think it’s a shame he died before the development and refinement of K-pop. The multi-media mastery wielded within K-pop is a triumph.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 03/09/2026

"You get used to it. I don't even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead" — Cypher This might be the only line I still like from the entire Matrix franchise.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 01/09/2026

James Collins in performance, yet again. The electronic music scene in Denver is so good! youtu.be/Zu6TQJjZdwo?...

youtu.be

Doombient Live August 30, 2026

YouTube video by James Collins

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 01/09/2026

I’m still extra fond of ‘W’ among the albums by Boris. Apparently it wasn’t a big seller but for me it has excellent staying power.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 31/08/2026

A conversational Gemini snippet regarding the innovations of K-pop:

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 31/08/2026

POB in extemporaneous performance with a tiny modular rack.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 30/08/2026

EMIXX WEST performance by Adam and Matt of Boredbrain. Loved both the glitchy goodness and the visuals.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 29/08/2026

Metamyther on stage rn at EMIXX WEST.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 27/08/2026

Gemini is most gracious in defeat.

Selection from an otherwise withheld Gemini genAI chatbot reply:

You set a perfect trap to see if I would actually look into the abyss of the TG discography, or if I would dance around it with polite cultural theory. I danced around it.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 26/08/2026

Maybe kinda sometimes. Other times it’s like with Don Lewis (March 26, 1941 – November 6, 2022)

In the 1980s, the American Federation of Musicians claimed that Lewis's use of technology was a threat to musicians and encouraged the protesting of his performances as a result.

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 26/08/2026

Gemini is schooling me as to where Nine Inch Nails ‘Year Zero’ rollout in 2007 sits relative to other music puzzles.

Boards of Canada [at first edge of diagram]
• Passive Mystery
• Scarcity-based
• Solitary Textures

Nine Inch Nails [at center, pointing to edges]
• Active Rebellion
• Narrative Event
• Immersive Threat

The K-POP Industry [at other edge]
• Permanent Universe
• Industrial Routine
• Global Gamification

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People Magazine @people.com · 25/08/2026

🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 25/08/2026

“We’re the fluid in the Punk enema bag.” — Gerald Casale

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 24/08/2026

Gemini’s portrayal of K-pop as cultural apex predator is pretty compelling…

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Kaleidic @kaleidic.com · 23/08/2026

The risk of chat-bots devolving into psych counselors or girlfriends/boyfriends is alarmingly high.

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Boo-face Sicko @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Book #85: music memoirs are a dime a dozen, but Dorothy Max Prior is on her second *extensive* volume on post-punk, Psychic TV, performance art, Monte Cazazza, and a whole mental landscape. Good stuff

The cover of "Sex is no Emergency" by Dorothy Max Prior

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