# recent events of cosmic scale and reach another sudden list with little context except itself sinclair zx spectrum 48k future vision inducing amiga scene demos twisted realty mega intro by 'azt3k' warlock of firetop mountain for the zx spectrum 48k needlessly esoteric album liner sleeve notes pete from virginia / danko philosophy / octopus tree d'jinaris device / miles davis makes our brain melt / a guide to all things pfloyd beyond infinity sequence / big scientist rnd zaibatsu / mid morning tea and a frosted raisin bun talking tapehead loader blues things may of started to finally jell around here intense dreams about infinity all bittersweet fire escape jazz and hexagonal cigarette smoke owned a commodore 64 before gaining an amiga 500 and then various crappy pc's our old zx block deck had these awesomely rubbish rubber keys tweaky bendy biosynth nipples also known as zombie flesh dr. orloff krankenwagan: wow zombie flesh such raw lofi subcultural 8bit resonance researchers could wiggle them back forth with tip of ir stubby nerd fingers oh zx 84 how we miss ya but what we don't miss is that lousy beige tape recorder thing we had to plug into our dark crackling heart every time we wanted to play something zx: beeee beep beee billeedeebilleedee beeeep orloff: 'wait here comes a good bit' henry swanson simultaneously confounded and amazed: what researcher y: yeah wait 40 odd minutes then it still didn't load we'd be severely irritated have to chill out and then twiddle the treble and bass some researchers saw fit to try accounting programs and keeping recipe books racing form prediction astrology astrology on ir decks there are even a couple of easter eggs on the 48k chip and absolutely loads of private visual jokes and hidden extras on the playspaces available for it the ultra low resolution gfx is way before its time - visionary predictions concerning the use of 'near-future retro' hyper aesthetics as means to suggest the onset of a sub culturally emergent neo-psychedelic ultra futurism we still watch the heck out of ancient sci fi's from time to time with our mates superfly media dimensions such as scanners / solaris / liquid sky / close encounters / subway / paris texas / thx 1138 / tron / flashdance / diva / black moon rising / blue thunder / deff machine / final approach / riki oh / o bi o ba they all speak of unimaginable near-future returns often utopian dystopian but still cooler than living alone in a student shared basement flat in wolverhampton researchers with big hair and shoulder pads suited corporate types fronting massive all consuming hypercorporations from the heavy and blocky near-future retro 80s when max headroom rules and all uk citizens are blanks vast majority of such scenic releases are now strictly straight to holo video unfortunately right into / from the woolworths bargain bucket bin selection the bin itself a hidden intra dimensional teleportal left for the post-cyberpunk scene to rediscover maybe we could argue with orloff down the rubadub how it all came together but that sort of suburban surrealist darkstrange vibe is hard to pin down yet enough with vague ontological warnings already says fellow researcher dr. orloff all we can do or want to do right now this weary autumn morning with no cream for coffee is get an outline and create a temporary dead language index of sub cultural minutiae print underground zines and waterproof lamp post stickers let campus energy do the rest one important thing it seems is to have foresight and peanuts necessary to say the equivalent of hmm: perhaps post human machines and passing hyperalien anthropologists in / from the 'near-future now' will regard all this with vaseline lensed respect pseudocode ir own dreary useless dense post-modem sociology essays about it in learned journals of bleeding edge mainstream subculture as a result now playing in lab background: easy like sunday morning by the commodores which mixes down real easy into bird of prey by the doors now eating lightly burnt toast with the yeasty extract kindly offered by a passing hallucinogenic jungle toad re recent undocumented / emergent trends in post-cyberpunk airport purchased sci fi k0de blue: you know intradimensional teleportals are coming on strong in-scene right now henry swanson: you reckon kode: yeah first it was deaders henry researcher: they sure got old quick - but then it got retro even quicker kode: well then came that whole thing with ninja henry: yeah researcher where did that whole shinobi thing go kode: the way of the undead we guess it got old stank bad but then became another instant classic henry: and now interdimensional teleportals are the next new old thing kode: words to polydimensional bioplasma pools henry: ok how exactly does one get around to wanting to know if intradimensional teleportals are the next big thing in bad psychedelic sci fi or in any other area of daily big scientific existence kode: it's all around us how can we ignore it - we're constantly swimming right through it or rather it through us a series of plain vanilla type bad 80's hyper media fragments random videocam footage from knight rider miami vice and auto researcher lightly torn movie flyers advertising final approach and night of the comet series of swarming vectors lines primary 8bit colours which fade into an increasingly all to easy to identify with horizon middle distance real glitch art taken from often deliberately grainy footage of select experimental japanese supercomputer video installation artists traces of sci fi alternative lit one entitled frank and list vs quote the network as ir detailed investigation continued fellow researcher henry swanson of strange imaginary play-state big science became increasingly convinced of odd events afoot // republic of bob