Drone Metal Mysticism
The Religious Studies Project
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Drone Metal
The KLF were enormously influenced by situationist theory and the kind of post hippie kind of early cybernetic idealism. And I think the idea of drone itself is very much about kind of or it affords ways of talking about time which kind of do similar things that they're sort of physically and bodily experienced in a particular moment. The people discuss in terms of being transported to outer space or to kind of imagined empty deserts and so on. It's almost pre-modern despite the fetishization of technology there's a lot of wildernesses and you know distant places and it's almost away from modernity. So for example for dub in terms of a black Atlantic diaspora we're
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