Having sond-mined our e-mail archive yesterday, let us now slip into the visualisator, a scanner developed by VizViz, a recently spun out gem from DARPA’s venerable portfolio of black swan investments. Visualisator transforms the ebbs and flows of our sickly subconscious into lurid imaginary. We hear that Apple has now acquired VizViz, and the next version of the iPhone 5 will incorporate some of its technologies into its interface, thus enabling users to tele-chat in alternate realities generated on the fly from their biometrics. Talk to your honey in elysium, talk to your boss on a Sunday, in a cenobyte torture pad.

Ah, the humanity!

First comes Xaver Von Treyer with the soundtrack for the sadly lost ‘sexy sequel’ of Predator, here you have the trailer. Classy stuff in the vein of Black Devil Disco Club, but with an added veneer of latin gothick which reminds us of Ginno Socio during his miami nouveau phase¹. We wouldn’t expect less from old 20jazzfunkgreats fave label Super Soul. Preorder the gargantuan Torino Scale here.

Meanwhile, Blondes have actually decided to draw on celebrated sightings of ghosts and recordings of neon-plasmic projections and wild seances celebrated in mysterious rave clubs to provide the visual backdrop for Wine, their abstractedly lysergic tribute to the legacy of the dyoniso-amazonian techno-scene.² Go and get the rest from IGETRVNG.

Living in a post-Dan Brown world as we do, we all know that all emo girls with tattoos are revolutionary hackers hellbent on revealing the sadistic pass-times of the decadently affluent.

No, hold on, what we know is that the cult of the assassins led by Hassan-i-Sabbah were somehow involved in smuggling the Holy Grail from old school Palestine, with the pre-Bavarian Illuminati and the Templars hot on their trail, as documented in Assassin’s Creed.

Or so we thought, until Professor Genius crept in from the shadows to bestow some dignity back upon what the unwashed masses simplistically see as a cadre of dope-smoking mystic ninjas with his extraordinary ‘Hassan’, finally being released in vinyl by L.I.E.S (pre-order). As a bonus, this reissue includes excellent remixes including the one of ‘Assassins’ by Steve Moore which you can see above, and download below.

Professor Genius – Time of the Assassins (Steve Moore Remix)

Which is an emotional exercise in trans-aeonic dream-catching, as the rituals of purification, regret and communion with the prey undertaken by the believers at the cragged summit of Alamut in the original become a cybernetic mass that could well have been devised by Yello at the heights of their Crimson Death Cult period.³

Footnotes

¹ – If it doesn’t exist, it should.

² – Ditto.

³ - And again.

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