Among the more persistent themes of the genre of music we might call death-techno—featuring dark luminaries like Demdike Stare and Vatican Shadow—is the coldness and isolation of technology itself. In so many of those frigid beats and bass mutations is this new-old idea of being entranced by the void as you stare (or fall) into it (you know, lest the void look into thee …). That's part subjective interpretation of music without a whole lot of words, a sense of things, and part the result of reading a lot of interviews and bios.I'd say that it's generally the music by itself doing the better job of articulating this sort of techno-isolation, but as you watch the video below, courtesy of the Spanish duo LCC (formerly known as LasCasiCasiotone), it might make things more interesting with the artists' intentions in mind:encapsulating the paradox between man and earth. It reflects on the paradigm that is Evolution, and examines the extent to which our development and technological advancement, which is inevitably bound to the extraction and processing of minerals from the earth, has broken and deformed our natural environment.Never forget: technology is just a bunch of dumb, cold rocks.
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