Beat the colour world with the black wedge

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As part of a spectrum so hypersensitized, black takes on a new, its full, chromatic stock... it takes on life, substance (the shiny black of satin is played off against matte velvet), it acquires the value of an ethical symbol...  it inserts itself like a wedge into a colour world

(Michel Caen, on Fisher's Brides of Dracula)

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"Is it blood?" asked Étienne, at last venturing to question him. Bonnemort slowly wiped his mouth with the back of his hand. "It's coal. I've got enough in my carcass to warm me till I die. And it's five years since I put a foot down below. I stored it up, it seems, without knowing it; it keeps you alive!"

(Émile Zola, on labor)

The Black Wake

The Black Wake

The product of my combined love of DJ Screw and Jackson Mac Low, or rule-based generative procedures more generally.  The first New Pessimism club banger.


(Also, the continuation of black metal - because, frankly, you can only talk so many times about an abyss before it becomes more of a yawn than a void and before it is filled right up - by other means.  To go from Blacker Than Darkness to All Black Everything.)




Dress dress


Suits suits


Shades shades


Boots boots


Truck truck

Coupe coupe

Blow blow

Flutes flutes

Card card

Jewels jewels

Party party 

Bag

Fry fry

Throw it throw it


In a 

Bag bag





Black black


Black black



Black black

Black black

Black black

Black guns



Guns guns

Black black


Black black

Black black


Black black

Party bag


Black black

Day day



Throw it in a body bag